Aging: Getting Older Along With the Bluebird of Happiness

Aging: Getting Older Along With the Bluebird of Happiness
[20 June 2006 - New York Times] Is youth really the happiest time of life? Researchers who surveyed younger and older adults found that both believe that, as a general rule, happiness declines with age. But when it came to their own experience, the older adults described themselves as happier than the younger people did. The study, led by Heather P. Lacey of the Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System and the University of Michigan, appears in The Journal of Happiness Studies. ...