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| Hachette, 2009, $13.99
http://www.amazon.com/How-Live-Search-Wisdom-People/dp/0446196045/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1289154842&sr=8-1
Alford interviews older people, relays their insights and tells their personal stories, producing an often humorous, if scattered, compilation of their wisdom. |
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| http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=main.doiLanding&uid=2008-19072-012
Mickler and Staudinger find that adults age 60-80 did about the same as adults age 20-40 with regard to indicators of personality growth, subjective well-being, intelligence, critical life events, and general wisdom. |
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| http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0361073X.2011.590756
These researchers found that, in general, older adults have enhanced memory for morally charged story events and, relative to younger adults, are more likely to draw moral inferences from situations. |
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| http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-5906.2010.01543.x/abstract
Sullivan digs into the relationship between religious affiliation and longer life, finding a strong connection in some denominations but not in others. |
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| http://biomedgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/64A/12/1283
The authors find evidence that religious attendance may offer mental stimulation that helps to maintain cognitive functioning in later life. |
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| http://psychsoc.gerontologyjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/63/5/S293
After studying Chinese people age 80 to 105, Zhang found religious participation to be significantly associated with lower risk of mortality for the oldest old women and for individuals in poor health. Engaging in leisure activities and exercises partially accounted for this association. |
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| http://gerontologist.gerontologyjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/48/2/135
Describes how mindfulness-based interventions have potential within the context of geriatric medicine and gerontology, especially why mindfulness may be particularly useful in promoting physical activity among older adults and how physical activity may be used as a vehicle to promote mindfulness. |
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| Gordian Knot Books, 2010, $21.95
http://www.amazon.com/Contemplative-Aging-Being-Later-Life/dp/1884092993/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1291602013&sr=8-1
Sherman relies on existential philosophy, ancient wisdom teachings, Eastern and mystical religious traditions, psychology, sociology, gerontology, and even some personal experience to explicate and extol a contemplative way of being in old age. |
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| AARP Office of Academic Affairs, Free
hrmoody@yahoo.org
The Newsletter contains items of interest about humanistic gerontology; it does not publish original writing but is limited to brief and timely announcements. |
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| http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121390779/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
The authors find that older Americans tend to draw a distinction between religion and spirituality, where religion has to do with personal beliefs, community affiliation, and organized practices, while spirituality often is taken in a non-theistic sense. |
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| http://www.secondjourney.org/, Free
In addition to a variety of other spiritually relevant content dealing with our elder years and the aging process, an engaging and inspiring newsletter called Itineraries appears on this site quarterly. |