I'm reading Happiness is a Choice You Make - Lessons from a year among the oldest old by John Leland
In 2015, when the award-winning journalist John Leland set out on behalf of
The New York Times to meet members of America's fastest-growing age group, he anticipated learning of challenges, of loneliness, and of the deterioration of body, mind, and quality of life. But the elders he met took him in an entirely different direction.
Despite disparate backgrounds and circumstances, they each lived with a surprising lightness and contentment. The reality Leland encountered upended contemporary notions of aging, revealing the late stages of life as unexpectedly rich and the elderly as incomparably wise.
This book examines the lives of six people over the age of 85.