Actually, I once heard a great Stanford podcast in which a gerontologist talked about how the mind changes as you age, and one of her points is that the elderly

Actually, I once heard a great Stanford podcast in which a gerontologist talked about how the mind changes as you age, and one of her points is that the elderly tend to be fairly happy with their lives. It's worth remembering that, while you may look at a 70-year-old and think "I could never live like that", that's largely because your mind is not seventy years old yet. The good -- and scarcely surprising -- news is that old people seem to be fairly happy doing the things old people do. I wish I could provide you with a link to that lecture. Heck, I wish I could find it again myself -- maybe this summary would be less vague, then. But Stanford's "iTunes U" has got to be one of the worst-designed pieces of information technology I've ever seen: you can't Google the damned thing, and once you do find something I have no idea how to link to it. You can Google up plenty of flames: see here: http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/brian/archives/022052.php http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/brian/archives/022052.php