Publisher's Synopsis
Repackaged To Highlight the Book's Promise: A new cover treatment and subtitle- "Uncovering the Keys to Longevity"-will position this paperback firmly in the applied-science longevity space next to Outlive.
New Year, New You: Repackaged for the annual New Year's marketing campaign.
Includes A Solutions Oriented Through-Line: "The Methuselah Effect '' will upend health care, personal finance, retirement, politics, and more. Kole canvases experts on what we can do to optimize our odds of living lives that are not only not just longer, but also better.
Hardcover Reviews, Marketing, and Publicity Success: The hardcover edition and the author garnered coverage ranging from the Wall Street Journal ("The Big 100 comes not a moment too soon.") to Library Journal's starred review ("A brilliant study on aging that's destined to become a classic."), as well as the New York Times, TIME, the Boston Globe, ABC 7 News, PBS, Newsweek, Washington Times, Business Insider, and more.
Penetrates Today's Eye-Opening Statistics and Predictions About Aging:
Half of today's 5-year-olds can expect to reach 100.
Billions worldwide will at least live deep into their 80s and 90s.
Today, there are more than 90,000 centenarians in the U.S. alone.
Aging Boomers and rising life expectancy will cause the 85-plus crowd to grow by 200 percent over the next four decades.
By 2050, we'll have eight times more centenarians than we do now.
Worldwide, we'll have 3.7 million people aged 100 or older just three decades from now equivalent to everyone now living in Connecticut.
Census Bureau: By 2035, Americans aged 85-plus will nearly double to 12 million, and by 2060 to 19 million.
Profound, Multi-Disciplinary Exploration of Increased Life Expectancy: Explores super-aging and science, culture, family life, economics, politics, health care, and more. With a rapidly growing senior population, what are the ramifications for Americans of all ages?
Penetrates the Racial, Ethnic, and Demographic Inequalities In Aging: Kole visits renowned public health professor Arline Geronimus-who proposed the "weathering effect" concept-to examine how centenarians are overwhelmingly white because of the toll of systemic racism and socio-economic disadvantages on Black and brown bodies.
The Science and Medical/Health Breakthroughs of Increasing Life Expectancy: In addition to vaccines and other medical breakthroughs that address diagnoses that used to be death sentences, Kole covers the discovery by Dr. Thomas Perls of the 281 specific genetic markets that are predictive of a 100-year or longer lifespan.
Incredible Lineup of Famous Experts Interviewed and Profiled: Dr. Jane Goodall; Dr. Thomas Perls, world's leading geriatric expert; Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders; Nobel Laureates Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee, and Edmund Phelps;Jo Ann Jenkins CEO of the American Association of Retired Persons, the first person of color to hold the position; and many more.
Hard Look at Work, Retirement, and Personal Finance: Examines how individuals, families, communities, organizations, and government will have to respond to shifts in work-life longevity, retirement age and duration, and the balance between a precarious social safety net and personal retirement finance.
Love, Dating, Relationships, and Loneliness in the Aging of Centenarians: A frank assessment of the emotional downsides of living far beyond 100, and how countries like Britain and Japan have created Cabinet-level "ministers of loneliness" to tackle these challenges.
