Own Your Age

Own Your Age

Strong and self-determined in the second half of life. Using the psychology of life transitions

On the power and happiness of getting older
The transition into the second half of life is characterized by challenges but is also full of opportunities. We all want the ageing process to be self-determined, exciting, and enjoyable—Prof. Dr. Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello, a life-span psychologist, has been researching what this depends on for decades. She shows what opportunities and strengths lie in challenges and changes such as a crisis of meaning, children leaving home, or personal and partnership reorientation. All this calls our identity into question and we have to reinvent ourselves, and character strengths such as stubbornness, curiosity, a desire for change, but also self-knowledge, education, and social commitment help us accomplish it. The author encourages individual decisions against any form of ageism and makes it clear that, if we know what is important, how we age is up to us.
• What psychological research knows about happiness in the second half of life
• Self-determination and well-being at every stage of life
• Great interest in ageing among baby boomers and Gen X

“The book is not simply about midlife, aging, and old age, but quite specifically about the phases in between, the transitions. This is new and I show what makes the difference in getting older—whether you are self-determined and satisfied or not.” Prof. Dr. Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello