Maintaining Optimism While Aging

How to Live Happily Ever After and Make Your Ever After Last Even Longer

Optimism is a choice. 

As we age, doors inevitably close, health challenges arise, friends and loved ones die, and the news—from climate change to foreign wars to divisive politics—seems all bad. How can we possibly stay happy and optimistic in the face of all this?

We can. And we should! Scientists have found that a healthy lifestyle is by far the major contributor to longevity, not genetics. Combining a healthy lifestyle with an optimistic attitude—maintaining confidence and a sense of hope about the future—will positively affect lifestyle, help delay disease, and extend longevity.

This is the promise that Maintaining Optimism While Aging makes to the reader. Engage with this book, modify your attitude and lifestyle, and create your own Blue Zone where you will enjoy a longer, healthier, happier life.

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ISBN: 979-8-90026-166-9
Imprint: Amplify Publishing
SKU: 18-1628-01
Categories:Amplify Publishing, Health, Medicine, and Wellness, Mental Health, Healthcare and Medical

“Aging is inevitable—but how we experience it is far more within our control than we once believed. John Trauth explores a powerful and often overlooked truth: Longevity is shaped not only by biology but by how we live—and how we think. Drawing from research at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Trauth explains how, by combining a healthy lifestyle with optimism, confidence, and a sustained sense of hope about the future, individuals can create a virtuous cycle: better habits, greater resilience, delayed onset of disease, and extended years of vitality. This book offers both a scientific and deeply human perspective on aging—one that replaces fear with agency, and decline with possibility.”

—Dr. Eric Verdin, president and CEO, the Buck Institute for Research on Aging

John Trauth

Management Consultant

John R. Trauth, MBA, is a management consultant based in San Francisco. He was born in New York, graduated from Colgate University with majors in economics and psychology, and proceeded to earn his MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth, majoring in marketing and finance. He has worked for large management consulting firms in both Boston and San Francisco. For the past fifteen years, he has run his own consulting practice specializing in strategic planning.

He is coauthor with Alan Bernstein of Your Retirement, Your Way (McGraw Hill, 2006), which achieved the number one position in Amazon’s “retirement book” category and was rated by Consumer Reports as one of the fifteen best books on retirement. John and Alan gave keynotes and seminars around the country, counseling people on strategically planning for their retirement.

John and his wife, Astrid, lived in France in the mid-1990s. He is fluent in French, and now resides in Sausalito, California, with frequent trips to Paris.

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