{"product_id":"9780199360970","title":"Lighter as We Go: Virtues, Character Strengths, and Aging","description":"The fears of aging have been one long cascading domino effect through the years: twenty year-olds dread thirty; forty year-olds fear fifty; sixty fears seventy, and so it goes.  And there is something to worry about, though it isn't what you'd expect: research shows that having a bad attitude toward aging when we're young is associated with poorer health when we're older.  These worries tend to peak in midlife; but in \u003cem\u003eLighter as We Go\u003c\/em\u003e, Mindy Greenstein and Jimmie Holland show us that, contrary to common wisdom, our sense of well-being actually increases with our age--often even in the presence of illness or disability.  For the first time, Greenstein and Holland--on a joint venture between an 85 year-old and a fifty year-old--explore positive psychology concepts of character strengths and virtues to unveil how and why, through the course of a lifetime, we learn who we are as we go.  Drawing from the authors' own personal, intergenerational friendship, as well as a broad array of research from many different areas--including social psychology, anthropology, neuroscience, humanities, psychiatry, and gerontology--\u003cem\u003eLighter as We Go \u003c\/em\u003eintroduces compassion, justice, community, and culture to help calm our cascading fears of aging.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47161675677936,"sku":"9780199360970","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780199360970_p0.jpg?v=1763668972","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780199360970","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}