Age Smart: Discovering the Fountain of Youth at Midlife and Beyond - Hardcover

Rosensweig, Jeffrey; Liu, Betty

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0131867628 ISBN 13: 9780131867628

Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall, 2006

Synopsis

Americans are embracing an entirely new way of aging: one that's based on staying productive, staying active, and staying young in body and mind. Jeffrey A. Rosensweig and Betty Liu share strategies for bringing together all the elements of a long, happy, fulfilling, connected life. Starting today, you'll learn how to take advantage of the latest sciences of health and longevity... leverage today's most powerful techniques for protecting your financial security... find or keep the work you love... pursue a path to deepen your own personal spirituality, whatever form it may take. No Pink Pants is packed with easy-to-use tips and guidelines for everything from your portfolio to your medical insurance. The heart of the book: intimate interviews with individuals celebrated for what they've learned about getting better with age:  powerful role models ranging from Jimmy Carter to Helen Gurley Brown, Robert Mondavi to C. Everett Koop. Learn from their experiences; then use this book's easy worksheets to take control of your own future!

 

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Review:

“It’s not about staying young, but aging well. Rosensweig and Liu, a finance professor and a business journalist, respectively, offer a “holistic approach to aging smart,” just as the Baby Boomer generation begins to reach retirement age. The authors artfully combine factual health and financial information with spiritual and inspirational suggestions (as seen in chapters like “Practice Optimism” and “Nurturing Your Soul”) to comprise a comprehensive strategy for getting the most out of your senior years. Incorporated into the text are the perspectives of aging experts, including psychologists, anthropologists and medical scientists. More interesting are the inspirational stories from successful and famous people–including Jimmy Carter and longtime Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown–who are still creative, energetic and productive at age 60, 70, even 80+. Readers will also benefit from the solid financial advice in the closing chapters, which include practical information on saving, investing taxes and more. Those in their middle and upper years will appreciate this upbeat guide to aging happily and healthily.” 

 --Kirkus Reports

About the Author:

Jeffrey Rosensweig is a finance professor at Emory University. A Ph.D. who studied at MIT and a frequent commentator on national television and at keynote lectures, he studies economic and aging trends and their impact on business and investing strategy. A member of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, he resides in Atlanta.

 

Betty Liu is an on-air correspondent for CNBC Asia. An award-winning business journalist, Betty spent the last ten years as a reporter for The Financial Times and Dow Jones Newswires writing about economic and social trends. Raised in Philadelphia, she is currently residing in Hong Kong.

 

About this edition

• Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0131867628
• ISBN 13: 9780131867628
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224