ON-SALE DATE is April 20, 2021
Thank heaven youth and middle age are behind you. Now you can concentrate on yourself. And celebrate, indulge in and be enthralled by the most significant experience you will have as a human being: the process of growing old. Our culture says the best way to deal with aging is to fight it. Look young, act young, feel young, they tell you, for as long as you can. But when it comes to crafting a blueprint for successful aging, society seems to be lagging behind modern science and way behind the philosophies of our ancestors. Leading-edge gerontologists are now discovering wisdom revealed centuries ago: that old age may be the most important stage in the human life cycle. To miss out on it by chasing after your younger self means forgoing some of life's most meaningful moments. In Reclaim Your Right to Grow Old, Kathleen O'Brien takes you on her journey into ancient philosophy, ground-breaking science and our culture's misconceptions about aging. Her advice? Tell people your age, expect young people to respect you, be eccentric, never age gracefully. Kathleen reminds you that empowerment, peace and self-knowledge unfold effortlessly when you age the way nature intended. Your later years are like no other. You are meant to experience them so you can uncover the reasons we grow old in the first place. Don't let this remarkable time pass you by. Old age only comes around once.

Shortly before author Kathleen O'Brien turned sixty, the former copywriter, TV broadcaster and university lecturer became intrigued by the aging process. She wondered why Western societies encouraged older people to fight old age, while indigenous and Eastern cultures accepted and celebrated their later years. With the enthusiasm of an investigative journalist, O'Brien delved into ancient philosophy and modern gerontologic science, interviewed countless experts, and after a decade of research, developed a blueprint for successful aging. In Reclaim Your Right to Grow Old How to immerse yourself in, be curious about, and celebrate life's most important stage, O'Brien shares the startling similarities between the findings of cutting-edge gerontologists and the advice of ancient philosophers: growing old has a purpose. Reclaim Your Right to Grow Old is filled with references and data but crafted in light, often humorous, clear and direct writing. It's loaded with anecdotes, quotes from interview subjects, illustrations, gerontologic research, and O'