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The Fears Of Aging Have Been One Long Cascading Domino Effect Through The Years: Twenty Year-olds Dread Thirty; Forty Year-olds Fear Fifty; Sixty Fears Seventy, And So It Goes. And There Is Something To Worry About, Though It Isn't What You'd Expect: Research Shows That Having A Bad Attitude Toward Aging When We're Young Is Associated With Poorer Health When We're Older. These Worries Tend To Peak In Midlife; But In Lighter As We Go, Mindy Greenstein And Jimmie Holland Show Us That, Contrary To Common Wisdom, Our Sense Of Well-being Actually Increases With Our Age--often Even In The Presence Of Illness Or Disability. For The First Time, Greenstein And Holland--on A Joint Venture Between An 85 Year-old And A Fifty Year-old--explore Positive Psychology Concepts Of Character Strengths And Virtues To Unveil How And Why, Through The Course Of A Lifetime, We Learn Who We Are As We Go. Drawing From The Authors' Own Personal, Intergenerational Friendship, As Well As A Broad Array Of Research From Many Different Areas--including Social Psychology, Anthropology, Neuroscience, Humanities, Psychiatry, And Gerontology--lighter As We Go Introduces Compassion, Justice, Community, And Culture To Help Calm Our Cascading Fears Of Aging.