A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance, (Juska), 21
abandonment, calling, 69
About Schmidt, Warren Schmidt (Jack Nicholson), 71, 77
About Schmidt (Begley), 107–108
action, purposeful, 123–124
Africa, experiencing, 25, 29
age
acquiring new skills, 92–93
identity, 85
Age Wave (Dyshtwald), 108
aging
gain vs. loss in, 104–105
process of, 21
responses to, 118–119
vital, 3–5, 101, 135
vs. becoming a new elder, 24
Aging Well (Vaillant), 78
Albom, Mitch, Tuesdays with Morrie, An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson, 34–35
aliveness, key to, 73
Allen, Woody, 93
Alzheimer's, dealing with, 103–106
America the Wise (Roszak), 107
ancestors, communicating with, 120
anticipation, hope, 98–99
appearance, youthful, 80–82
Aristotle, 25
Ashtanga Research Center, 72
awards, Greatest Thinker in America, 36