Aging with Agility

"How do you imagine spending the last few chapters of your life? For most of human history, life expectancy has been around 35 years old. Now, global life expectancy is over 70 years old. In less than 200 years, we have more than doubled our life expectancy and in places like Canada, Japan, and much of Europe, there are more adults over 65 than children under ten. Living longer requires that we spend more time thinking about how we want to live out our later years, and it will be different from what our parents and grandparents experienced. Aging with Agility is Michelle Panor Silver's effort to understand how we, as individuals and as a society, can embrace active aging by looking to the stories of a remarkable set of people, gathered over the course of roughly a decade so as to capture the process of aging in progress. Using a group of former elite athletes as her subjects - a group of people that have had to come to terms with what their bodies can and can no longer do - she argues that the most effective way to do this is to find the best, most sustainable fitness for your body at every age. The book's chapters focus on a particular individual and their effort to come to terms with their physical aging. Each of the chapters teach a thematic lesson essential for active aging - focus, confidence, motivation, resilience, optimism, commitment, and concludes with the rules for the endgame"--