Triumphs Of Experience: The Men Of The Harvard Grant Study - Plot & Excerpts
This certainly needs to be done, but it is also necessary to know about the characteristics of other members of their birth cohort, in early childhood, adulthood and early old age. —M. BURY AND A. HOLME, Life after Ninety IN MY PREOCCUPATION with love, joy, and relationship in old age, I tend to forget the more mundane but absolutely crucial importance of staying alive. Physical health is just as important to successful aging as social and emotional health. In 2011, the Grant Study and the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921 became, as far as I know, the world’s first prospective studies of the physical health of nonagenarians.1 (The Lothian Birth Cohort was formed in Edinburgh in 1932. It included more than 80,000 eleven-year-olds, many of whom have been followed over the years to the age of ninety.) In this chapter I will focus on the sixty-eight surviving members of the Grant Study who are still active as of March 2012, but I will also review what happened to the men who died along the way.
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