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The Study of Adult Development
Robert J. Waldinger, M.D.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
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The Study of Adult Development
Age 82
2004
1969
Age 47
1941
Age 19
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4 generations of researchers
1937-1953 Arlie Bock, M.D. and Clark Heath, M.D.
1953-1972 Charles MacArthur, Ph.D.
1972- George Vaillant, M.D.
2002- Robert Waldinger, M.D.
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268 Harvard Sophomores
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What can these lives tell us?
1. How important are our childhoods in predicting how we age?
2. Is the die cast by mid-life, or can we still affect how we get old?
3. Who retires, who enjoys it, and why?
4. Is life basically all downhill from here?• Close Relationships• Enjoyment of life
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How We Collected Data
In adolescence at UHS:In adolescence at UHS:• Medical and psychiatric exams • Interviews with undergrads and parents
Over the next 68 years:Over the next 68 years:• Questionnaires every 2 years
• Medical records every 5 years
• Interviews every 10 years
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What’s Been Studied
• Mental health
• Physical health
• World War II experiences
• Work
• Relationships
• Aging and retirement
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What’s so important about longitudinal research?
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How much do childhood factors determine how we age?
Early life factors we can’t control?– Ancestral longevity – Parental social class– Childhood environment– Childhood temperament
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Childhood factors do not predict much about life at age 70-80
Age 70-80
Physical Health
Length of Active Life
Life Satisfaction
Mental Health
Warmth of Childhood
+ No No +
Childhood Temperament
No No No No
Parental social class
No No No No
Ancestral longevity
No + No No
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Is the die cast by midlife, or can we still affect how we get old?
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Factors in midlife that predict how we age
Age 70-80Physical Health
Length of Active Life
Life Satisfaction
Mental Health
Age 50
Smoking O
Alcohol Abuse
Exercise ++ ++ O +Stable
Marriage + O ++ ++
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Alcohol and Smoking
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Clean living
Alcoholism
Heavy smoking
Alcoholism + heavy smoking
% of men with nodisability by age75-80
64%
36%
24%
8%
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Death After Age 50 for College men, Core-City Men, and Core-City College Graduates
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College men (N=237)
Core-city college grads (N=25)
Core-city men (N = 332)
Education and longevity
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Who retires, who enjoys it, and why?
• Retirement is over-rated as a problem
• 5% retired prior to age 60, most due to ill health
• 50% still worked full-time at age 65
• By age 75, only 1/12 men had not retired
• The men who liked working the most at age 60 The men who liked working the most at age 60 liked retirement the most at age 75liked retirement the most at age 75
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4 ingredients of happy retirements
1. Replace work mates with other social networks
2. Rediscover how to play
3. Engage in creative endeavors
4. Learn new things
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Is it all downhill from here?
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What happens to intimate relationships?
“I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”
- Rita Rudner
“If variety is the spice of life, marriage is that big can of leftover Spam.”
- Johnny Carson
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Marriage across the lifespan
Marriage Children arrive
Children leave
(Children return)
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The awareness that life is short makes us happier
When we sense that time is limited, emotional well-being becomes a priority
We get choosier about how and with whom we spend our time
We reconstruct our autobiographical memories more positively
We pay attention to the positive more than the negative
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Remembering the positive
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“Discover new vistas, explore the unknown”“Capture those special moments in life”
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Can brains that focus more on the positive get us into trouble?
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At age 87, 110 Study members (41%) are still living
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Cognitive health age 80-85
Vascular Dementia
6%
Intact82%
Alzheimer's 11%
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Physical health among those who live to age 87
Moderate disability living independently
39%
No disability50%
Wheelchair and/or nursing
home11%
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Very few dropouts
Lunch May 2005
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Linking psychology and biology
• Genetics – DNA
• Neuropsychological testing
• Neuroimaging– Structural– Functional
• Brain donation
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2nd Generation
• Harvard Men– 837 Children
• Inner City Men– 1261 Children
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What happens to sex?