Proceedings of Meetings and Symposia>Speech: Carstensen, Laura (Dec 2011), Older people are happier, Ted Talks, Retrieved on 2013-11-27Source Material [www.ted.com]
Folksonomies: aging perspective longevity well-being Memes
27 NOV 2013
Science is the "Crucible" for Extending Life
People are living longer and societies are getting grayer. You hear about it all the time. You read about it in your newspapers. You hear about it on your television sets. Sometimes I'm concerned that we hear about it so much that we've come to accept longer lives with a kind of a complacency, even ease. But make no mistake, longer lives can and, I believe, will improve quality of life at all ages. Now to put this in perspective, let me just zoom out for a minute. More years were added to av...Our culture, our memes account for our extended lifespans.