Focus
Upcoming
Thursday, May 9
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Aging Well
Presenter:
George Vaillant, Brigham and Women's Hospital
12:00-1:00 p.m.
de Marneffe Building, Room 132
McLean Hospital
Belmont
George Vaillant is an HMS professor of psychiatry at Brigham and Women's Hospital and director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, a 50-year-old survey of 824 individuals followed from their teens into old age.
His recently published book, Aging Well: Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Harvard Study of Adult Development, details what has been learned about successful aging based on this intensive study. Vaillant concludes that individual lifestyle choices such as marriage, exercise, eating habits, smoking, alcohol and drug use, and social activities play a greater role than genetics, wealth, race, and other factors in determining how happy people are in their later life.