Happiness Is…Getting Old?


	Happiness Is…Getting Old?

Lexica

7-15-2008 4:37 PM

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aging, health, happiness, research

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7-15-2008 7:35 PM

Socratoad

Well considering the alternative

7-15-2008 8:59 PM

aklimento

If the youth knew, if the elderly might...

7-16-2008 12:56 PM

tabsey

I'm not over 65 but have never experienced a life so contented as now. Retirement (even if forced by health), grand kids, happy household, no money but no debt, an understanding of the cycle of life, and so on. This despite golf.

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It also brings happiness.<A id="more-437"></A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/14/happiness-isgetting-old/"><P>The report highlights 50,000 detailed interviews with Americans, repeated year after year as part of the General Social Survey, to enable researchers to see how the same people change over time. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/14/happiness-isgetting-old/">The finding wasn’t due to the fact that older people are more stoic or were taught from an early age to be content. The researchers found people older than 65 had not always been happy. It was being older that led to the contentment that many of them felt</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/14/happiness-isgetting-old/">older people reported a larger number of health problems but tended to report far fewer difficulties overall — fewer financial, interpersonal and crime problems. 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