Aging with Grace: What the Nun Study Teaches Us about Leading Longer, Healthier, and More Meaningful Lives, (Paperback)

from thesmellofbooks

A very interesting book, chronicling the evolution of a seminal study of the brains of aged women, each a Catholic nun in the same religious order, and of the relationship between the researcher and the nuns. Important new understandings of the brain and Alzheimers were achieved through their sha...

from cohenja

As I get older, I am becoming more interested in what will happen to my mind. The statistics are not encouraging; Alzheimer's disease is now the 6th leading cause of death in the U.S., and as the population ages, incidence is increasing. Conventional wisdom is that dementia is an inevitable part ...

from hammockqueen

interesting about the study of alzheimers using the nuns in Mankato Minn.

from abycats

Terrifically helpful book with results for a decades-long study about how to predict likelihood of a long, healthy, happy, meaningful life. I've found myself referring to it in conversation many times over the years.

from abycats

Terrifically helpful book with results for a decades-long study about how to predict likelihood of a long, healthy, happy, meaningful life. I've found myself referring to it in conversation many times over the years.