Living to be One Hundred

Thomas T Perls

ISBN 10: 0465041426 / ISBN 13: 9780465041428

Published by Basic Books, 1999

About this Item

Drawing on the results of the New England Centenarian Study, this work sets forth findings on ageing, and portrays the life of centenarians. Included are the stories of a variety of men and women who are living into their tenth decades.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Living to be One Hundred
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0465041426
• ISBN 13: 9780465041428
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Centenarians, once a rarity, are the world's fastest growing age group: there are currently about 50,000 people over 100 in the United States alone, almost three times as many as there were in 1980. Centenarians are setting the gold standard for healthy aging. What can we learn from these pioneers? How can people decades younger apply the centenarians' longevity lessons to their own lives? These are the questions Harvard scientists Thomas Perls and Margery Hutter Silver set out to answer when they launched the New England Centenarian Study.As they probed beyond disease to identify the parameters of an energetic later life, Perls and Silver realized that the key to preserving health and vitality lies not in learning how people stay young, but in understanding how they age well. By identifying lifestyle patterns, vitamins, and medications that contribute to aging well—and may even help slow down the aging process—they show how all of us can maximize the healthy portion of the life-span.Filled with personal profiles, informational sidebars, and quizzes, Living to 100 offers inspiration and solid scientific information to the more than seventy-five million people alive today who can look forward to their ninth and tenth decades.

About the Author

THOMAS T. PERLS, M.D., MPH, is a world-renowned researcher at Harvard Medical School and the founder and director of the New England Centenarian Study.

MARGERY HUTTER SILVER, ED.D., a neuropsychologist, is associate director of the New England Centenarian Study and a clinical instructor in psychology at the Harvard Medical School.

JOHN F. LAUERMAN is health columnist for Harvard Magazine and an award-winning contributor to many other magazines. He is co-author, with Dr. David Nathan, of the book Diabetes. He lives in Brookline, MA.