Recent research indicates that mental well-being actually increases after middle age, even as physical quality of life declines. All those popular media images of grouchy old people yelling at neighborhood kids to get off their lawns? Those stereotypes are about to go right out the wi...
Our elders have decades of knowledge and wisdom to pass on to future generations, but will we listen? Professor Karl Pillemer of Cornell University is on a mission to make sure we heed our elders’ sagely advice. Professor Pillemer, who specializes in gerontology and human development,...