From the Book - Regular Print - First edition.
Preface: the arch and the staircase
Setting the stage for the rest of your life. Act three: becoming whole
Act one: a time for gathering
Act two: a time of building
Eleven ingredients of a success full third act
Body, brain and attitude. The workout
Now more than ever you are what you eat
You and your brain: use it or lose it
Positivity: the good news is you're getting older
From the Book - Regular Print - Random House trade paperback edition.
Part 1 Setting the Stage for the Rest of Your Life --
Chapter 1 Act III: Becoming Whole 3 --
Chapter 2 A Life Review: Looking Back to See the Road Ahead 17 --
Chapter 3 Act I: A Time for Gathering 39 --
Chapter 4 Act II: A Time of Building and of In-Betweenness 55 --
Chapter 5 Eleven Ingredients for Successful Aging 73 --
Part 2 Body, Brain, and Attitude --
Chapter 7 Now More than Ever, You Are What You Eat 107 --
Chapter 8 You and Your Brain: Use It or Lose It 128 --
Chapter 9 Positivity: The Good News Is You're Getting Older! 135 --
Chapter 10 Actually Doing a Life Review 146 --
Part 3 Friendship, Love, and Sex --
Chapter 11 Importance of Friendship 157 --
Chapter 12 Love in the Third Act 174 --
Chapter 13 Changing Landscape of Sex When You re Over the Hill 201 --
Chapter 14 Lowdown on Getting It Up in the Third Act 225 --
Chapter 15 Meeting New People When You're Looking for Love 245 --
Part 4 Pilgrims of the Future --
Chapter 16 Generativity: Leaving Footprints 25s --
Chapter 17 Ripening the Time: A Challenge for Women 272 --
Chapter 18 Don't Put Off Preparing for the Inevitable: One of These Days Is Right Now 278 --
Chapter 19 Let's Hear It for Revolution! 293 --
Chapter 20 Facing Mortality 309 --
Part 5 Spiral of Becoming --
Chapter 21 Work In 317 --
Chapter 22 Full Tilt to the End 331.