Creative Longevity: Essays on Aging and Wisdom


A publication of Creative Longevity and Wisdom

A project of the Institute for Social Innovation at Fielding Graduate University

March 2008

Edited by Dudley Tower, PhD, Creative Longevity and Wisdom Alumnus Fellow, Valerie Malhotra Bentz, Professor, School of Human & Organization Development, Fielding Graduate University, and Katrina S. Rogers, Professor, School of Human & Organization Development, Fielding Graduate University

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Preface: The Creative Longevity and Wisdom Project at Fielding Graduate University, by Dudley Tower, Katrina Rogers, and Valerie Bentz

Section One: The Aging Process: Dispelling Myths and Creating a Positive Image

Introduction

• Does Wisdom Increase with Age? by George Vaillant, MD. In Aging Well (Little, Brown, 2002), Chapter Nine, pp.1-8.
  
  
• Symbolic Processing in the Elderly, by Kathryn L. Jepson and Gisela Labouvie-Vief (2007). To be published in Everyday memory and aging: Current research and methodology, edited by R. L.West and J. D. Sinnott (Springer-Verlag).
  
  
• Justice Between Generations: The Recent History of an Idea, by Harry R. Moody (2007). A paper presented at the Fielding Graduate University Winter Session, Santa Barbara, January 2007.

Section Two: Women's Creativity, Wisdom, and Development

Introduction

• Relationship as a Path to Integrity, Wisdom and Meaning, by Ruthellen Josselson (2007).
  
  
• Women's Creativity and Images of Gender, by Gisela Labouvie-Vief (2007).
  Creative Aging: Older Women Enroll in Academic Degree Programs, by Suzanne Baer, PhD (2004). In The Older Learner, American Society on Aging (Fall, 2004).
  
  
• Creativity, Longevity, and Wisdom: Women's Wisdom in Leadership, by Rita Lustgarten, (2007). An unpublished manuscript.
  
  
• On the Life of Betty Friedan: A Narrative Study of an Aging Woman, by Pam Young (2004). An unpublished paper.
  

Section Three: Aging in the Workplace

Introduction

• Organizational Existentialism and Aging, by Thierry Pauchant (2005). A working paper.
  
  
• The 100-Book Project on Integral Leadership, by Thierry Pauchant (2004). An unpublished manuscript.
  
  
• Building an Age-Friendly Workplace: Organizational Development Challenges, by Laura Markos, PhD (2005).
  
  
• In Thriving on an Aging Workforce: Strategies for Organizational and Systemic Change, edited by P. T. Beatty, and R. Visser (Krieger, 2005), pp. 112-120.
  

Section Four: The Scholar-Practitioner in Creative Longevity and Wisdom

Introduction

• Stretching Exercises: Toward Higher Levels of Adult Development and Fulfillment, by Laura Markos, PhD (2006). An unpublished manuscript.
  
  
• Patterns of Medical and Nursing Staff Communication in Nursing Homes: Implications and Insights from Complexity Science, by Cathleen S. Colón-Emeric, Natalie Ammarell, Donald Bailey, Kirsten Corazzini, Deborah Lekan-Rutledge, Mary L. Piven, Queen Utley-Smith, and Ruth A. Anderson. In Qualitative Health Research, Vol. 16 no. 2., February 2006, pp.173-190.
  
  
• Pol Pot: A Great Teacher. Healing my anger, hurt, pain, and sadness from the patricide in Cambodia, by Bo Tep (2006). An unpublished paper.

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