Book Reviews

SuperAging moves super fast and never gets old! A riveting ride to a revolutionary new reality of aging, setting the pillars to embrace for gracefully getting older while shaping a sharp vision of an extended future of sustained good health, well-being and accomplishment towards a destination of true happiness with contentment

We live in a society that treats our seniors as if they are fragile and should be protected behind glass. This book puts the lie to that. I read it. I was a superager; now I'm going to be a SuperAger.

To meet the challenge of population, we do not need a drug -- we need a cultural revolution, and this book provides an excellent manifesto for that revolution. We need a new language, a new culture, and a new social reality in which living longer is seen by both individuals and society as an opportunity and a cause for celebration.

Of the many books on aging, this is one of the most coherent and accessible, sharing insights from lived experience, research, and therapy that will provide the reader with a wealth of information, a healthy game plan, and an optimistic worldview. It approaches successful aging not as a one-size-fits-all enterprise but rather in sync with a precision medicine type of approach that recognizes heterogenous paths to continued life satisfaction and challenges the reader to discover theirs.

SuperAging is one of the most powerful forces of disruption today. The possibility of 'getting older without getting old' will transform every aspect of our society. This book is your essential guide to what's happening, why it matters, and how to apply it to your own life.

Informative, engaging and encouraging, this book offers more detailed information and resources to the reader than others I've read on aging. As a SuperAger myself, who did not retire until age 75, I found the information here to be both useful and exciting as I look forward to the next 20 years of my life! I've recommended this to my friends and family.

This magnificent book is an essential guide for anyone wanting to continue to thrive at any age. It goes well beyond simply living longer and explores how those extra years can become amazingly creative and productive so that aging is not about simply 'surviving;' longer but rather thriving longer.

In a landscape that is cluttered with fads and gimmicks, SuperAging is the quintessential guide to rescue you from the perils of poor health and age-related decline.

SuperAging is a compelling guidebook to getting the most out of life as we age,, Many readers will have 20 or 30 years ahead after reaching age 65. By drawing on advancements in many fields, the authors persuasively illustrate exciting new opportunities for living those bonus years with vigor. The book deftly addresses seven pillars of aging to help us reimagine and then actualize our prospects for a relevant and optimistic future.

This book smashes the myth that we become frail and irrelevant as we get older. It's thought-provoking on so many dimensions, and it provides a road map for not just surviving, but thriving in your later years. I devoured this book, and you will, too. Let us all be SuperAgers. David Cravit and Larry Wolf, show us the way

This book smashes the myth that we become frail. David Cravit and Larry Wolf have assiduously assembled and articulated an archive of all aspects of aging from ATTITUDE to AVOIDANCE. This is a crisply written, comprehensive, seven-point, practical guide to managing the discordance between the number of years lived nowadays and society’s default acceptance of comfortable, unchallenging retirement at 65. Acknowledging the importance of ACTIVITY (exercise, diet) the authors advocate planning for the future by cultivating AWARENESS of the demands that will be made on aging, and the need for ATTACHMENT to others and for calibrating ACCOMLPLISHMENTS.

More than a holistic prescription, SUPER AGING is an incandescent view of all the variables (inside and out) affecting our health, happiness, and longevity. Embracing super aging means drawing upon not only increased awareness but also new opportunities and new awakenings. It exhorts us to see our age and ourselves differently. It tells us we are more powerful, useful and relevant than we may know, and provides the facts and science to prove this is true. It helps fundamental principles as the body/mind come into clearer and more practical and relevant focus. This wise and practical book reminds us that we are born, live, and die with an important role in the larger fabric of life. Full of positive exhortations, tips, and brass-tack facts, it is consummately useful at any age.

This title from Cravit (The New Old: How the Boomers Are Changing Everything…Again) and advertising executive Wolf starts with true stories of what they call “SuperAgers”: older people—in their 80s, 90s, and even 100s—who are doing the unthinkable given their age. The authors list the seven A’s of SuperAgers: Attitude, Awareness, Activity, Accomplishment, Autonomy, Attachment, and Avoidance. Each of the seven A’s gets its own chapter, whose information is backed up by scientific studies. The book affirms that a positive attitude, an awareness of what you need for longevity, physical and mental activity, a sense of purpose, a sense of independence, and strong personal relationships are all keys to becoming a SuperAger. The authors also trace the history of how SuperAgers have evolved and how they differ from “DefaultAgers”—those who don’t see the positives of getting older. The book does more than just outline what a SuperAger needs, though. Each chapter provides concrete steps, tips, guidance, charts and even quizzes to help one shift into the broader and more all-encompassing mindset of SuperAging. VERDICT – A timely read and a great handbook for a growing societal group seeking to delay their physical decline.

This comprehensive and well-written book challenges anyone to rethink their concept of aging. Move away from a negative and defeatist DefaultAging mindset toward an empowered SuperAging period in life. Attitude, awareness, activity, accomplishment, autonomy, attractiveness and the avoidance of negative factors are covered in depth, with practical tools and action plans. I particularly enjoyed Chapter 3 — Awareness and the drive for personal development, self-education and learning.

SuperAging is not the typical “how to stay healthy and live a long, active life” book. It is, in fact, far more in depth about the culture and politics surrounding aging, and how to leverage technological and social advances to your advantage as you live an active, independent life into your 70s, 80s and beyond. I have read numerous books about the healthy choices that enable humans to live healthier and longer, and found SuperAging to be a refreshing, informative twist on the topic of aging. With numerous ideas and resources for aging in place and maintaining independence well beyond what has previously been expected, the authors have created a reference that should be required reading for everyone who has reached the point in life where retirement is an option or who is related to or involved with someone of retirement age.

I really liked this book! It has an entirely different focus than most books about aging, so even if you have others on your bookshelf, this is a great addition. The book focus on seven different areas of our lives: attitude, awareness, activity, autonomy, achievement, attachment and avoidance. The coverage of each area is superb with many ideas that are worth careful consideration to make the aging process more enjoyable. The book promotes the idea that aging can be done in a healthier fashion with a better attitude than how people expected their golden years to be lived in the past.

Really enjoyed this book. A great read that clearly articulates where we are in society and default aging versus SuperAging. This is an area and topic that I am very interested in, and I found this book thought-provoking, well-written, full of usable and practical information and surely writing plays an important part of our health and wellness conversation for the years to come.