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Happiness is a choice you make, lessons from a year among the oldest old, John Leland

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Happiness is a choice you make, lessons from a year among the oldest old, John Leland

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references

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contains biographical information

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illustrations

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Happiness is a choice you make

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John Leland

Sub title

lessons from a year among the oldest old

Summary

In 2015, journalist John Leland set out to meet members of America's fastest-growing age group: 85 and up. He anticipated learning of challenges, of loneliness, and of the deterioration of body, mind, and quality of life. But the elders he met took him in an entirely different direction. Despite disparate backgrounds and circumstances, they each lived with a surprising lightness and contentment. The reality Leland encountered upended contemporary notions of aging, revealing the late stages of life as unexpectedly rich and the elderly as incomparably wise. This collection of their lessons emphasizes, above all, the extraordinary influence we wield over the quality of our lives

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