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| Buettner provides brief, clear, and easily available (to most people) summary of the importance of purpose in life. |
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| Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Jun-05, $16.95
http://www.amazon.com/Claiming-Your-Place-Fire-Purpose/dp/1576752976/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1288204851&sr=1-1
Drawing on what Leider learned while sitting around the fire with tribal elders in Tanzania, he refers to his readers as 'new elders,' meaning people 'who never stop reinventing themselves.' This book is a guide to an internal, spiritual search for the purpose of one’s older years. |
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| http://psychsocgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/content/66B/2/177.abstract
Mak reports that people with dementia who engage in goal-directed activity may experience a greater sense of purpose. |
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| http://gerontologist.oxfordjournals.org/content/50/4/541.abstract
The authors' findings show that it is possible to support older persons in their search for meaning by means of life review and that this helps in alleviating depressive symptoms. |
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| http://ageing.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/39/5/631
Bartley and O'Neill, in studying this problem, mainly found that insufficient data has been collected to draw conclusions. |
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| http://www.icohere.com/agingfriendly/
A website that grew out of a 2008 conference. The website offers a variety of relevant resources, including free access to nearly 30 presentations from the original conference. |
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| http://jag.sagepub.com/content/29/4/494.abstract
The authors found that observing activities of daily living can be used to assess the ability of older people to drive, without actually putting most of them behind the wheel. |
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| http://www.itnamerica.org/, Free
A national non-profit transportation system for America's aging population, operating in an expanding number of localities. |
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| http://psychsoc.gerontologyjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/63/5/S298
This study lends legitimacy to the fear of many older people that they will become more isolated if they give up their driver’s licenses. |
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| http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=buy.optionToBuy&id=2008-07367-018
This article suggest that while overall social satisfaction remains largely steady as we age, this static effect is the result of a mix of underlying positive and negative changes |
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| http://gerontologist.oxfordjournals.org/content/50/4/443.abstract
The authors note that mobility is a critical element of how older people interact with physical space, and that more consistency in evaluating mobility would benefit our understanding of their problems. |
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| Sloan Center on Aging & Work, February 2010, Free
http://agingandwork.bc.edu/documents/IB24_EngagedAsWeAge.pdf
The authors explore whether the old assumptions and expectations about aging reflect the current reality, new views of aging (and critiques of those views), and the benefits of a revised conceptual model of retirement and aging. |
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| http://psychsocgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/content/66B/4/426.abstract
The researchers report that, contrary to studies of younger workers, their study of older workers shows that in this group job strain is not related to alcohol misuse, though it is related to depression. |
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| http://gerontologist.oxfordjournals.org/content/50/5/594.abstract
The authors find a strong positive correlation between volunteering for environmental organizations in mid-life and stronger physical and mental health in later life. |
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| Yeung and Fung, in a study of Chinese workers, found that work strategies involving selection, optimization, and compensation were employed very differently, and with different degrees of success in different circumstances, by older vs. younger workers. |
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