Index

A

  • abundance model, 113–14
  • achievement, external vs. internal, 10–11
  • “active agers”, 53–54, 76
  • adulthood, 16
    • as choice, 65–66
    • default version of, 65
    • outgrowing, x, 22
    • shift to elderhood, x, 26, 50, 87, 97
  • ageism, 103
  • Ageless Soul: The Lifelong Journey Toward Meaning and Joy (Moore), 15
  • aging
    • from the inside out, 18–19
    • old as valuable, vs. old as problematic, 6–7
    • paradox of, 36–38, 47
    • purposeful, x–xii
    • realization of, 15–16, 20–21. See also purposeful aging
  • ahamkara (ego-shape), 125
  • “Always Better!” motto, 84–85
  • amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), 92–94, 118
  • Angell, Roger, 100
  • answers, 43–44
  • anti-aging mindset, xiii, 2, 6, 11, 112
  • Aristotle, 55, 56
  • Aronson, Louise, 15
  • ashranas, 52–53
  • attuning, 105

B

  • becoming, 51
  • being, vs. doing, 2
  • Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Gawande), 86
  • Benedict, St., 114, 119
  • Black Lives Matter, 80
  • Blue Zones, 109–10
  • body theory, 32
  • breakdowns and breakthroughs, 81
  • Buddhist traditions, 56
  • Buettner, Dan, 109–11

C

  • calling, 44, 50, 94–96, 132
  • Caterpillar Inc., 92–93
  • choice, 41, 44
  • Clearness Committee, 113
  • close encounters of the old kind, 44–47
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind (movie), 44–45
  • compassion, 35, 103
  • Conley, Chip, 103–5
  • consciousness, 125–26
  • conversation, 52, 80, 82
    • long, 1–8
    • and personal finance, 62
    • ultimate, 122–28
  • “coulds”, 79
  • courage, 18, 72, 81
  • COVID-19 pandemic, 79–80
  • crucible events, 20–21, 45, 75, 90
  • cultural change, 118–19
  • cummings, e. e., 43
  • curiosity, 43, 104–5, 130
  • cycles of life, 125

D

  • death, 16, 20–21, 33, 46, 70
    • Benedictine wisdom, 114, 119
    • as best teacher about life, 47
    • conversations about, 118–19
    • embracing concept of, 88
    • gerotranscendence, 37
    • “good death”, desire for, 116–17
    • inevitability of, 18, 21, 105, 116, 123
    • living with end in mind, 118–19
    • making friends with, 120–22
    • ultimate conversation, 122–24
  • default life, how to stop living, 64–73, 132
    • default choice, x, 64, 66, 68
    • move to good life, 67–71
    • and “sparked life”, 71–73
  • default self, 35–36, 39, 44
  • depression, 115
  • Designing an Inspired Life, 50
  • discernment, 51, 113
  • Doors (rock group), 116
  • dying from the inside out, 44
  • Dylan, Bob, 86

E

  • Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality and Healing (University of Minnesota), 36–37
  • Eden Alternative, 86–87
  • “editing”, 105
  • ego, 104, 125
  • elder, as term, 103
  • elderhood, x, 15
    • intentional, 22
    • shift from adulthood to, x, 26, 50, 87, 97
  • Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life (Aronson), 15
  • elderly, as term, 103
  • emergency room visits, 72–73
  • emotional contagion, 81
  • empathy, 29
  • End in Mind Project, 118–20
  • Erikson, Erik, 99
  • ethical wills, legacy letters, and living legacy videos, 60

F

  • faith, 33
  • Farrell, Chris, 60–63
  • fear, 105–6, 115
  • fear lessening of, 102–3
  • “Fihi Ma Fihi #4” (Rumi), 96
  • final days, 105–6
  • financial planning, 61–62
  • Floyd, George, 79–80
  • Frankl, Victor, 18–19, 91, 93, 126
  • freedom, ix, 7, 51
  • friendship, 1–8
  • From Age-ing to Sage-ing: A Profound New Vision of Growing Older (Schachter-Shalomi), 98–100
  • Fukushima nuclear plant, Japan, 17–18
  • fulfillment, 29, 35–36

G

  • game, playing, 2–3, 7
  • Gandhi, Mahatma, 125
  • Gawande, Atul, 86
  • generativity, 99, 104
  • gerotranscendence, 37
  • Gitanjali (Tagore), 106
  • giving, xiv, xv, 7–8, 30, 37, 127, 132
    • helping others, 26–27
    • as responsibility, 85
    • service to others, 50–51, 54–55, 104
    • as spiritual practice, 34–35
    • as wealth, 59–60
  • good life, 52–63, 131
    • defined, 1
    • factors in, 67
    • move from default life to, 67–71
    • unpacking, 55–57
  • gratitude, 119–20
  • Greek philosophers, 55
  • Growing Edge, 113
  • growing old, ix
  • growing up, x, xii, 16–17, 22–24
  • growing whole, ix, 7, 8, 35–38, 51, 81, 97, 101–11, 112, 132
    • aging on purpose as, 105–7
    • relevance, 103–4
  • growth, 8
    • inward, x, 10

H

  • halves of life, 9–10
  • Harold and Maude (movie), 97
  • Harry Potter series, 97
  • Harvard Study of Adult Development, 27, 110
  • health care, 72–73
  • Helminski, Kabir, 96
  • helping others, 26–27
  • high school reunions, 45–46
  • Hindu conception of life, 52–53
  • hope, 41, 76
    • renewing through crisis, 79–82
  • householder (grihastha) stage, 53
  • Hudson, Tracy, 79–80

I

  • inequalities, 89–90
  • inner kill, 44
  • Inspired Leadership Initiative (Notre Dame), 49–51
  • integration, 101–2
  • integrity, 101–2, 103–4, 110
  • intensity, 107
  • intentional elderhood, 22
  • The Inventurers: Excursions in Life and Career Renewal (Leider), x
  • Inventure Safaris (Tanzania), 6
  • inward growth, x, 10

J

K

  • Karos, Paul, 51
  • Keep It Moving: Lessons for the Rest of Your Life (Tharpe), 83–84
  • Kramer, Bruce, 118–19
  • Kreitzer, Mary Jo, 36–38

L

  • late-life crisis, 74–88, 132
    • “Always Better!”, 83–85
    • practice of aging on purpose, 82–83
    • questions for, 77–78
    • renewing hope through, 79–82
    • “What are old people for?”, 85–88
  • Levine, Stephen, 71
  • Life Plan, 72–73
  • life portfolio, 109
  • Lifespark, 72–73
  • Lifespark Experience, 72–73
  • life stages, 15, 52–54, 59
  • life stories, 1, 21, 47–49
  • life work (what people do every day), 67
  • lived experience, 35–36
  • longevity, 72–73, 107–8, 109
    • of purpose, 111
  • Lunch Hour, Ltd., 27

M

  • making a difference, 99–100
  • Man’s Search for Meaning (Frankl), 18–19, 91
  • marginalized groups, 11
  • “Me and Bobby McGee” (Joplin), 113
  • Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Jung), 47
  • memory theory, 32–33
  • midlife crisis, 74, 75
  • midlife edit, 103–5
  • midlife wisdom school, 104–5
  • milestones, 65–66, 119
  • mindfulness practices, 83, 130
  • mindset, x, xii, xv, 42, 62, 90
    • end in mind as, 119
    • late-life crisis and, 76, 78
    • “old” as a range, 11–14
    • purpose as, 41
  • Modern Elder Academy, 104–5
  • money, and purpose, 60–62
  • money, medicine, and meaning (“three Ms”), 57–59
  • Moore, Thomas, 15
  • moral compass, 50–51
  • Morrison, Jim, 116
  • mortality, facing, 7–8
  • “The Music Will Play On” (Palmer), 113
  • “My Back Pages” (Dylan), 86

N

  • National Geographic, 107
  • Native Americans, 60
  • Newcomer, Carrie, 113
  • New Poems (cummings), 43
  • New Yorker, 100
  • nursing homes, 86–87

O

  • old, 131
    • range of ages, 12–14
    • reimagining, 16–17
    • as term, 11–12, 85–86
    • as “too old”, 14
  • “old old”, 86
  • “One, One, One” (Rumi), 96
  • On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old (Palmer), 7–8, 113
  • opportunity, 7–8, 17, 41, 44
    • and late-life crisis, 75, 78–79
    • missed, sense of, 65–67, 77

P

  • Palmer, Parker, 7–8, 112–16, 119
  • “passing grade”, 72–73, 89–100, 132
  • path of purposeful aging, xiii–xvi
  • pattern recognition, 29–30
  • people (who one spends time with), 67
  • personal identity, problem of, 31–32
  • place (where one lives), 67
  • Plato, 55, 56
  • positive thoughts, 85
  • possibilities, xiii, 2
  • potlatch, 60
  • priorities, 15, 29
  • privilege, 89–90
  • pro-aging mindset, xiii–xiv, 11–12
  • Project Blue Book (US Air Force), 44
  • projections, 24
  • psychic continuity, 32–33
  • psychology, 40
  • purpose, xi, xvi, 7, 17–20, 67, 123, 131
    • checkups, 30
    • defined, xv
    • iterative process of unlocking, 25
    • longevity of, 111
    • as mindset, 41
    • money and, 60–62
    • moral compass, 50–51
    • searching inward for, 26–28
    • surviving bad times, 81–82
    • as verb, 35–36, 56, 82
    • why get up in the morning, 28–30
    • yearning for, 94–95
  • Purpose and a Paycheck: Finding Meaning, Money, and Happiness in the Second Half of Life (Farrell), 61
  • purposeful aging, x–xvi, 10
    • as growing whole, 105–7
    • practice of, 82–83, 91, 99, 129–30. See also aging
  • Purposeful Aging Journal, 130
  • purpose movement, 5, 38, 43, 84–85, 143
  • purpose partner, 130
  • Purpose Project, 37
  • purpose statement, 82

Q

  • Quaker faith, 113
  • questions, xiv, xvi, 42–43, 131–32
    • and late-life crisis, 77–78
    • ultimate, 124–28
    • unpacking the good life, 55–57
    • “What are old people for?”, 85–88
    • “what did I want to be?”, 22–25, 131
    • “What is life asking of me now?”, 81
    • “Who do I want to be when I grow old?”, xii, 31, 97

R

  • racial justice crisis, 80
  • rainout, as metaphor, 7
  • Rancho La Puerta, 84
  • Rapp, Ed, 91–95
  • reflection, 17, 110–11, 123
    • new narrative, 21–22
    • rear view mirror metaphor, 74, 76, 78–79
    • self-inventory, 110–11
    • “What did I want to be?”, 22–25
  • regeneration, 108
  • regrets, 39, 66
  • reincarnation, 125
  • relevance, 43, 103–4
  • “renunciate” (sannyasa) stage, 53
  • Repacking Your Bags (Leider and Shapiro), xi, 1, 5–6, 54, 55
  • resilience, xi, 81–82
  • rest, 17
  • retirement, xii, 31
    • coaching for transition, 49–50
    • as life stage, 53–54
    • “still” not retiring, 40, 87
  • “retiring to the forest” (vanaprastha) stage of life, 53, 59
  • “right outlook”, 110
  • “ripe old age”, 108
  • role models, 51
  • Rooney, Andy, 108
  • roots of being, 115
  • Rumi, 94–97
  • The Rumi Collection (trans. Helminski), 96

S

  • sacrifice, 28
  • sage-ing, 97–100
  • Sage-ing International, 98–100
  • scarcity model, 113
  • Schachter-Shalomi, Zalman (Reb Zalman), 98
  • Schreier, Tom, 49–50
  • Scott-Maxwell, Florida, 107
  • self-awareness, 56
  • self-inventory, 110–11
  • self-worth, 30
  • Shapiro, Ruth, 47–49
  • Shingle, Barry, 84–85
  • Siempre Mejor! (“Always Better!”) motto, 84–85
  • silence and solitude, 115–16
  • Skilled Veterans Corps, 17–18
  • Socrates, 56
  • somebody, being, xvi, 8, 23, 39–51, 131
  • somebody-ness, 41
  • something missing, sense of, 65–67, 77
  • soul, 15, 33–35, 84, 102, 104–5, 127
  • soul theory, 33
  • “sparked life”, 71–73
  • Spielberg, Steven, 44–45
  • Spiritual Eldering Institute, 98
  • spirituality, 34–36, 54, 125
  • spiritual work, 54–55
  • Stay Strong vs. ALS, 92
  • “still”, 30, 87
  • “still” not retiring, 40, 87
  • Stoics, 55
  • student (brahmacharya) stage, 53
  • study groups, 130
  • success, 9–10, 30
  • suffering, 67, 105, 117, 126
  • Szekely, Deborah, 84

T

  • Tagore, Rabindranath, 106
  • Tharpe, Twyla, 83–84
  • Theisen, Joel, 71–73
  • “This Baby Will Live to Be 120” (National Geographic), 107
  • “This Old Man: Life in the Nineties” (Angell), 100
  • Thomas, William H., 86–88
  • time, 59
  • Tornstam, Lars, 37
  • traditional peoples, 109–11
  • “tragic optimism”, 91, 93
  • true self, 35–36
  • Turkel, Studs, 61
  • Twain, Mark, 47–48

U

  • Universal Consciousness, 125–26
  • University of Minnesota, 36–37
  • University of Notre Dame, 49–50

V

  • value, person of, 81
  • value judgments, 14
  • values, xv, 60–61, 69, 70, 132
  • Vedic philosophy, 56, 125
  • Vivekananda, Swami, 55
  • vocational goals, 22–23, 113

W

  • Wall Street, 51
  • Wall Street Journal, 86
  • wealth, 59–60
  • Weinstine, Bob, 45–47
  • what, vs. who, xii, 22–25, 31
  • What Are Old People For?: How Elders Will Save the World (Thomas), 86–88
  • “What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?” assignment, 24
  • wholeness, ix, 36, 88
  • whole-person senior services, 71–73
  • who we are, 23
  • wisdom, 17, 43, 48
    • sages, 99
  • Wisdom @ Work: The Making of a Modern Elder (Conley), 103
  • wonder, 106
  • Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do (Turkel), 61
  • worry, 57–60
  • Wurzer, Cathy, 118–20

Y

  • Yamada, Yasuteru, 17–18
  • yearning, 94–95
  • A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last (Levine), 71
  • “yes, and” perspective, 33–34
  • young-half-of-life culture, 9–10
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