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CHAPTER 16: Generativity: Leaving Footprints
1 Vaillant, Aging Well, p. 4.
2 Vaillant, Aging Well.
3 Schachter-Shalomi and Miller, From Age-ing to Sage-ing, p. 16.
4 Vaillant, Aging Well, pp. 48, 113.
5 Schachter-Shalomi and Miller, From Age-ing to Sage-ing, p. 57.
CHAPTER 17: Ripening the Time: A Challenge for Women
1 Gutmann, Reclaimed Powers.
CHAPTER 18: Don’t Put Off Preparing for the Inevitable: One of These Days Is Right Now
1 Carstensen, A Long Bright Future, p. 230.
2 Bernice Bratter and Helen Dennis, Project Renewment (New York: Scribner, 2008), p. 23.
3 Terry Savage, The New Savage Number: How Much Money Do You Really Need to Retire? (Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 2009).
4 Terry Savage, The Savage Number (Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 2005), p. 48.
5 Ibid., p. 84.
6 Study cited in Alan Walker, “Care for Elderly People: A Conflict Between Women and the State,” in A Labour of Love: Women, Work and Caring, edited by Janet Finch and Dulcie Groves (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983), p. 123.
CHAPTER 19: Let’s Hear It for Revolution!
1 Florian Kohlbacher and Cornelius Herstatt, eds., The Silver Market Phenomenon: Business Opportunities in an Era of Demographic Change (Heidelberg, Germany: Springer, 2008).
2 Maxine Frith, “The Woofs: A Graying Generation with Golden Spending Power,” Independent, September 25, 2003.
3 MetLife Mature Market Institute, Demographic Profile of American Baby Boomers (Westport, Conn.: MetLife Mature Market Institute, 2005).
4 Adam Cohen, interview by Lisa Bennett, Esquire, April 16, 2010.
5 Carstensen, A Long Bright Future, p. 29.
6 K. M. Daniel, L. C. Cason, and S. Ferrell, “Emerging Technologies to Enhance the Safety of Older People in Their Homes,” Geriatric Nursing vol. 30 (2009): pp. 384–89.
7 Philanthropic Trust, “Philanthropy Statistics,” http://www.nptrust.org/philanthropy/philanthropy_stats.asp (accessed on April 18, 2010).
8 “How Americans of Different Generations Give to Charity,” Chronicle of Philanthropy, http://www.philanthropy.com/article (accessed on April 18, 2010).
9 Suzanne Braun Levine, Fifty Is the New Fifty (New York: Penguin, 2009), p. 182.
10 Susan J. Ellis, “The Dollar Value of Volunteer Time,” http://www.energize.com/art/dollar_value.html (accessed on March 15, 2010); and Foundation Center, “Frequently Asked Questions,” http://foundationcenter.org/getstarted
/faqs/html/volunteer_value.html (accessed on March 15, 2010).
11 Milt Freudenheim, “More Help Wanted: Older Workers Please Apply,” The New York Times, March 23, 2005; http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/23/business/230lder.html (accessed on April 19, 2010).
12 National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, “Senior Income Statistics,” http://www.ncpssm.org/ss_senior_income/ (accessed on March 1, 2010).
13 NCPSSM, “Fast Facts About the Social Security Disability Program,” http://ncpssm.org/disability_fast_facts/ (accessed on March 1, 2010).
14 NCPSSM, “Americans Support Protecting Social Security Benefits: Findings of NCPSSM Survey,” http://ncpssm.org (accessed on March 1, 2010).
15 AARP, “Retirement Income” (Chapter 4, Section 9) in AARP Policy Book 2009–2010, http://www.aarp.org/issues/policies/policy_book/ (accessed on March 28, 2010).
16 Benson Rosen and Thomas Jerdee, “Investing in the Older Worker,” Personnel Administrator, April 1989.
17 Freudenheim, “More Help Wanted.”
18 AARP, “Employment” (Chapter 5, Section 12) in AARP Policy Book 2009–2010, http://www.aarp.org/issues/policies/policy_book/ (accessed on March 28, 2010).
19 National Council on Aging, “NCOA Issue Brief: Older Americans Act Appropriations,” http://www.ncoa.org (accessed on March 5, 2010).
20 Wikipedia, S.V. “AARP/Blue Zones Vitality Project,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
AARP/Blue_Zones_Vitality_Project (accessed on February 5, 2010).
21 AARP, “Health: Medicare Beneficiaries Out-of-Pocket Costs” (Chapter 7, Section 38) in AARP Policy Book 2009–2010, http://www.aarp.org/issues/policies/policy_book/ (accessed on March 28, 2010); and My Medicare Matters, “What Is Covered by Medicare Parts A, B and D,” http://www.mymedicarematters.org/
AboutMedicare/whatiscovered.asp (accessed on March 1, 2010).
22 Center to Advance Palliative Care and National Palliative Care Research Center, “America’s Care of Serious Illness: A State-by-State Report Card on Access to Palliative Care in Our Nation’s Hospitals,” http://www.capc.org/reportcard/findings (accessed on March 1, 2010).
CHAPTER 20: Facing Mortality
1 Joan Halifax, Tricycle, Spring 2008, p. 8.
2 Here’s another option instead of cremation: I’ve read that a Swedish company, Promessa, will freeze-dry your body in liquid nitrogen, pulverize it with high-frequency vibrations, and seal the resulting powder in a cornstarch coffin. The company claims that this “ecological burial” will decompose in six to twelve months.
3 Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Getting Over Getting Older (New York: Berkley, 1997), p. 78.
CHAPTER 21: The Work In
1 David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order (London: Routledge, 1980), p. 49.
APPENDIX I: Summary of Main Areas of Anti-Aging Research
1 Robert N. Butler, The Longevity Prescription: How to Maximize the Three-Decade Dividend (New York: International Longevity Center).
APPENDIX V: Guide to Mindful Meditation
1 Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open.
2 From the archives of the Women’s Collection, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas.
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Index
Aamodt, Sandra
Academy Awards, 11.1, 11.2, 21.1
accumulation phase, 18.1, 18.2
Act I
age span for
as beginning of life review
brain in
change and
childhood in
education during
Fonda’s life review of, 2.1, 3.1
gathering in
gender identity and, 3.1, 10.1
life review of, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 10.1, 10.2
Act II
age span for
breakdown during
change and
fertile void during
finances in
Fonda’s life review of, 2.1, 3.1
hormones during
perfection and
productivity during
self during
as time of building and in-betweenness
transitions during, 4.1, 4.2
Act III
becoming whole during
collecting dividends in
diet in
Fonda’s goals for
gender identity and
having a purpose and
life review as preparation for
loneliness as problem in
love in
preparation for, 4.1, 4.2
purpose of
rite of passage to
sex in, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1, 14.1
activism/activists
actors
fertile void of
personal meltdowns of
addictions, 1.1, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 14.1, 22.1
adolescence
being perfect and
brain during
doing a life review and
gender identity during, 3.1, 10.1
generativity projects and
aerobic activity, 1.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 7.1, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1
age
of friends, 11.1, 11.2
love relationships in Act III and
Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)
ageism: contemporary views about
aging
arch as paradigm for, 1.1, 5.1
biomarkers of
generativity as central component of successful
ingredients for successful
as process of continued development and growth
rectangle as paradigm for, 5.1, 5.2
stereotypes/myths of, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3
AIDS
Albert Lea, Minnesota: community programs in
alcohol, 5.1, 7.1, 10.1, 22.1
Allen, Woody, 5.1, 12.1
aloneness. See loneliness/aloneness
Alzheimer’s, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 22.1. See also dementia
Ambergris Cay: scuba diving at
American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), 19.1, 19.2, 19.3
American Baptist Churches of the USA
American Heart Association
American Physical Therapy Association
amino acids
androgenization, 12.1, 12.2
Angelou, Maya
anorexia. See eating disorders
antioxidants, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 22.1
anxiety. See depression
Arnheim, Rudolf, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
arthritis, 5.1, 6.1, 13.1
assisted-living facilities
Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists, 12.1, 12.2
Athena Institute
attitude
lifestyle choices and
longevity and
See also positivity
authenticity
in Act I, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
in Act II
friendship and
gender identity/roles and, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 12.1
love in Act III and, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
of smiles
women as leaders and
autobiographical video, Fonda’s, 2.1, 2.2
autonomy, 2.1, 12.1
baby boomers, 6.1, 6.2, 12.1, 13.1, 17.1, 18.1, 18.2, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4
balance: physical activity and, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 22.1
Balance on One Leg (exercise)
Baldwin, James
Baptist church: Fonda at
Barbach, Lonnie
Bartlik, Barbara
Bateson, Mary Catherine, 9.1, 17.1, 17.2, 18.1, 21.1
Beauvoir, Simone de
becoming: Teilhard de Chardin–Houston encounter and
becoming whole
Act III as time for
Fonda’s experiencing of
Bennett College: Global Diversity and Inclusion Institute at
beta-carotene, 7.1, 7.2
Bickford, Emily
Bickford, Jewelle, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Bickford, Laura
Bickford, Nathaniel, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 12.2
bigger picture: caring about
biomarkers of aging
bison roundup: Fonda on, 2.1, 2.2
Blake, Eubie
blood pressure, 7.1, 13.1, 22.1
blood sugar, 7.1, 7.2, 22.1
Blue Zones Vitality Project (AARP)
body
awareness of
Fonda’s concern about her own, 1.1, 2.1, 6.1, 10.1, 13.1
hatred of one’s, 2.1, 10.1
importance of social networking on health of
love of
sex and, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4
See also eating disorders; plastic surgery
Bohm, David, 21.1, 21.2
bones
diet and, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
hormones and, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
physical activity and
vitamins and, 7.1, 7.2
Bortz, Walter
boys. See men/boys
Brace, Harriet, 2.1, 2.2
Brace, Herberta, 2.1, 2.2
Brace, Jayne, 2.1, 2.2
Brace, William, 2.1, 2.2
brain
alcoholism and
anti-aging research and
challenging the
“cognitive restructuring” and
development of
diet and
education and, 3.1, 8.1
as erotic body part
exercise and, 8.1, 8.2
gender identity and
generativity and
hormones and, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
ingredients for successful aging and
learning and, 8.1, 8.2
lifestyle and
Lou Gehrig’s disease and
meditation and
memory and, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
neural pathways to, 2.1, 9.1
perimenopause and
physical activity and, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, 8.2
plasticity/adaptation of, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
positivity and, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
sex and, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
sleep and, 8.1, 8.2
social interactions and, 8.1, 11.1
stress and
volume of
young
Brattner, Bernice
breads and cereals, 7.1, 7.2
breakdown: during Act II
breakfast, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 22.1
breast cancer
breathing
actually doing a life review and
exercise and, 6.1, 6.2, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 22.4, 22.5, 22.6
interoception (body awareness) and, 6.1, 6.2
Kegel exercises and
meditation/tai chi and, 4.1, 6.1, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3
positivity and
in secondhand smoke
Bridges, William, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Brizendine, Louann, 4.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2
Brody, Jane, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 14.1
Buddhism, 21.1, 21.2
Buettner, Dan, 6.1, 11.1, 19.1
building: Act II as time of
bulimia. See eating disorders
Burke, Ben, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 20.1
Butler, Robert, 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 11.1, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 22.1
Cacioppo, John
caffeine
calcium, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 14.1, 14.2, 22.1
California Women’s Conference
Calment, Jeanne Louise
calorie-restriction diet, research about
calories
diet and, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3
walking and
Campbell, Joseph
cancer
anti-aging research and
diet and, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
hormones and, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
love in Act III and risks of
palliative care and
sex and
telomere hypothesis and
Canyon Ranch Health Resort. See Hewitt, Michael
cardiovascular exercise, 22.1, 22.2
caretakers
nursing-care crisis and
seniors as
carotenoids, 7.1, 7.2
Carrera, Michael
Carstensen, Laura, 3.1, 9.1, 9.2, 18.1, 19.1, 21.1
centenarians, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1, 20.1. See also specific person
Center of Excellence for Sexual Health (Morehouse School of Medicine)
certified financial planners (CFPs)
Chair Squats (exercise)
change
Act I and
Act II and
character and, 3.1, 3.2
developmental, 10.1, 10.2
generativity and
how much can we
life review and, 10.1, 10.2
in lifestyle
living arrangements and
meditation and
personality
potential for
in relationships
sex and age-related
technology and
temperament and, 3.1, 3.2
women as leaders and, 17.1, 17.2
Chaplin, Geraldine
character, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 9.1, 9.2
Cheney, Dick
Cher
Chest Presses (exercise)
Chief Diversity Officers Forum
childhood: unhappy, 3.1, 4.1
children: generativity and
chiropractic therapy
cholesterol, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 8.1, 14.1
chromium
Church, Forrest
Churchill, Winston, 9.1, 16.1
Cialis, 1.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
Civic Ventures
clinical medication trials
coffee
cognitive functioning, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3. See also brain
cognitive therapy, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1
Cohen, Gene
Cole, Johnnetta, 13.1, 13.2, 16.1
commitment
long-term, 12.1, 12.2, 15.1, 15.2
love in Act III and
communication
doctor-patient, 14.1, 19.1
sex and, 13.1, 13.2
community programs. See social service programs
companionship, 12.1, 12.2
compassion, 1.1, 2.1, 6.1, 16.1, 22.1
“compassionate” detachment
“compensatory recruitment,” 130