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Successful Aging: The MacArthur Foundation Study shows you how the lifestyle choices you make now- -more than heredity--determine your health - Hardcover
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The president of New York's Mount Sinai Hospital and a professor of public health present the findings of a MacArthur Foundation Study, showing healthy aging is dependent on diet, exercise, and self-esteem rather than on genes. 75,000 first printing. Tour.
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About the Author
John W. Rowe, M.D., is president of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Dr. Rowe has chaired the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Aging since its inception. He lives in New York City.
Robert L. Kahn, Ph.D., is professor emeritus of psychology and public health at the University of Michigan. A member of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Aging, and lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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is a compelling and inspiring presentation of what determines how well we age--the results of the MacArthur Foundation Study of Aging in America, which show how to maintain optimum physical and mental strength throughout later life.
Research into aging has been revolutionized in the past ten years largely due to the MacArthur Study, which under the leadership of Drs. John W. Rowe and Robert L. Kahn created a network of leading research scientists from key fields to determine what aging actually involves. Rejecting the established approach of studying aging in terms of anticipated decline, these scientists set out to identify the factors that were enabling vast numbers of people to preserve and even enhance their mental and physical vitality in later life.
Successful Aging brings together the remarkable results of the study for the first time. They explode the myths about aging that have long shaped individual and institutional attitudes toward growing older, inc
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- PublisherPantheon
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0375400451
- ISBN 13 9780375400452
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages265
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