Karl Pillemer: "Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest (and Oldest) Americans"

Wednesday, July 25, 2012 at 7:30pm

Kennedy Hall, Call Auditorium

What are the most important lessons you have learned over the course of your life that you would pass on to the younger generation? That is the sole question that the Legacy Project, under the direction of gerontologist Karl Pillemer, asked more than 1,500 older Americans. Their answers—about children, marriage, careers, and happiness—are the foundation of Pillemer’s nationally acclaimed book, 30 Lessons for Living (named one of Library Journal’s “Best Self-Help Books of 2011”), and the subject of this lecture, which is sponsored by the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions.

Pillemer is a professor of human development in the College of Human Ecology and of gerontology in medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, as well as director of the Cornell Institute for Translational Research on Aging (CITRA). His major interests center on human development over the life course, with a special emphasis on family and social relationships in middle age and beyond.