Seven Strategies for Positive Aging (Norton Professional Books)

Seven Strategies for Positive Aging (Norton Professional Books)
by Robert D. Hill

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Author: Robert D. Hill
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-06-17
ISBN: 0393705234
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.

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Book Review: Positive Choices
Summary: 5 Stars

"People who develop a habit of emphasizing the positive do better when they are confronted with challenges or difficulties in life." ~ pg. 62

"Seven Strategies for Positive Aging" is a book about positive choices as you grow older. Robert D. Hill presents life-changing ideas and looks at aging as a challenge to look forward to. Not only does he believe you can age more gracefully, he also believes those around you can benefit from your wisdom. He discusses grief, volunteering, forgiveness and being grateful. He deals more with the psychological aspects of aging instead of focusing on skin creams, exercise and supplements.

Robert D. Hill believes you can be emotionally healthier and happier by following some of his positive ideas about how to live. Instead of becoming more and more isolated as we age, the reader is encouraged to reach out into the community and to form friendships that last a lifetime. While death is inevitable, how you live your final years can be a positive experience. I can recommend this book to anyone over 50 although a few of the chapters are appropriate for any age.

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Summary of Seven Strategies for Positive Aging (Norton Professional Books)

Filled with practical and effective strategies, skill-building techniques, and advice based on the most recent research on the psychology of aging, Dr. Hill demonstrates how people can help themselves age productively and positively. A practical companion to Robert Hill's Positive Aging: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals and Consumers, Seven Strategies for Positive Aging presents essential tactics that encourage the development of positive aging skills. In Positive Aging, Dr. Hill challenged traditional conceptions about aging and offered a new theoretical framework for understanding the nature of aging. He argued that "Positive Agers" can be found everywhere, and come from all walks of life. They find satisfaction in life regardless of their personal circumstances. By adopting affirmative lifestyle choices and positive spirituality, they are able to age well.

In his new book, Robert Hill explains how anyone can adopt and develop positive aging skills. Dr. Hill has drawn upon the theoretical perspective first presented in Positive Aging to develop practical exercises and techniques that are easily accessible to the reader interested in discovering how best to adapt to the aging process. The reader will discover meaning through lifespan learning, learn how to transform age-related decline, and find out how to employ the principles of continuity in order to feel good about oneself, even during challenging times. The reader will also learn how to apply "meaning-centered" techniques of belonging, altruism, gratitude, and forgiveness in his or her own life, in order to enhance emotional health. These techniques are organized into seven distinct chapters: Learning, Meaning, Wisdom, Belonging, Helping, Gratitude, and Forgiveness.

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