Prime Time (59 page)

  
3
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Demographic Profile of American Baby Boomers
(Westport, Conn.: MetLife Mature Market Institute, 2005).

  
4
Adam Cohen, interview by Lisa Bennett,
Esquire,
April 16, 2010.

  
5
Carstensen,
A Long Bright Future,
p. 29.

  
6
K. M. Daniel, L. C. Cason, and S. Ferrell, “Emerging Technologies to Enhance the Safety of Older People in Their Homes,”
Geriatric Nursing
vol. 30 (2009): pp. 384–89.

  
7
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http://www.nptrust.org/philanthropy/philanthropy_stats.asp
(accessed on April 18, 2010).

  
8
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http://www.philanthropy.com/article
(accessed on April 18, 2010).

  
9
Suzanne Braun Levine,
Fifty Is the New Fifty
(New York: Penguin, 2009), p. 182.

10
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http://www.energize.com/art/dollar_value.html
(accessed on March 15, 2010); and Foundation Center, “Frequently Asked Questions,”
http://foundationcenter.org/getstarted
/faqs/html/volunteer_value.html
(accessed on March 15, 2010).

11
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The New York Times,
March 23, 2005;
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(accessed on April 19, 2010).

12
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http://www.ncpssm.org/ss_senior_income/
(accessed on March 1, 2010).

13
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http://ncpssm.org/disability_fast_facts/
(accessed on March 1, 2010).

14
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(accessed on March 1, 2010).

15
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AARP Policy Book 2009–2010,
http://www.aarp.org/issues/policies/policy_book/
(accessed on March 28, 2010).

16
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Personnel Administrator,
April 1989.

17
Freudenheim, “More Help Wanted.”

18
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AARP Policy Book 2009–2010,
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(accessed on March 28, 2010).

19
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20
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(accessed on February 5, 2010).

21
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AARP Policy Book 2009–2010,
http://www.aarp.org/issues/policies/policy_book/
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AboutMedicare/whatiscovered.asp
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22
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http://www.capc.org/reportcard/findings
(accessed on March 1, 2010).

CHAPTER 20:
Facing Mortality

  
1
Joan Halifax,
Tricycle,
Spring 2008, p. 8.

  
2
Here’s another option instead of cremation: I’ve read that a Swedish company, Promessa, will freeze-dry your body in liquid nitrogen, pulverize it with high-frequency vibrations, and seal the resulting powder in a cornstarch coffin. The company claims that this “ecological burial” will decompose in six to twelve months.

  
3
Letty Cottin Pogrebin,
Getting Over Getting Older
(New York: Berkley, 1997), p. 78.

CHAPTER 21:
The Work In

  
1
David Bohm,
Wholeness and the Implicate Order
(London: Routledge, 1980), p. 49.

APPENDIX I:
Summary of Main Areas of Anti-Aging Research

  
1
Robert N. Butler,
The Longevity Prescription: How to Maximize the Three-Decade Dividend
(New York: International Longevity Center).

APPENDIX V:
Guide to Mindful Meditation

  
1
Elizabeth Lesser,
Broken Open.

  
2
From the archives of the
Women’s Collection,
Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas.

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Index

Aamodt, Sandra

Academy Awards,
11.1
,
11.2
,
21.1

accumulation phase,
18.1
,
18.2

Act I

age span for

as beginning of life review

brain in

change and

childhood in

education during

Fonda’s life review of,
2.1
,
3.1

gathering in

gender identity and,
3.1
,
10.1

life review of,
2.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
10.1
,
10.2

Act II

age span for

breakdown during

change and

fertile void during

finances in

Fonda’s life review of,
2.1
,
3.1

hormones during

perfection and

productivity during

self during

as time of building and in-betweenness

transitions during,
4.1
,
4.2

Act III

becoming whole during

collecting dividends in

diet in

Fonda’s goals for

gender identity and

having a purpose and

life review as preparation for

loneliness as problem in

love in

preparation for,
4.1
,
4.2

purpose of

rite of passage to

sex in,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
12.4
,
13.1
,
14.1

activism/activists

actors

fertile void of

personal meltdowns of

addictions,
1.1
,
3.1
,
4.1
,
6.1
,
14.1
,
22.1

adolescence

being perfect and

brain during

doing a life review and

gender identity during,
3.1
,
10.1

generativity projects and

aerobic activity,
1.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
6.5
,
6.6
,
7.1
,
21.1
,
21.2
,
22.1