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Addresses the trade-off between the known negatives of aging and the less often acknowledged gains~Explains how the real positives of aging can be obscured by younger generations' unrealistic fear of it~Represents a thoughtful approach to the discussion of human aging through positive encouragement~Two generations of authors weave science with engaging stories

Contrary to common wisdom and the fears of mid-lifers, our sense of well-being actually goes up in older age, even in the presence of illness or disability. Lighter as We Go is the first book to explore how and why that is, drawing on positive psychology and concepts of character strengths and virtues.

This collection of true stories chronicles the author's childhood growing up in Brooklyn as the Yiddish speaking daughter of Holocaust survivors to her work with cancer patients to her life as a mom of two young boys to becoming a cancer patient herself.