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Senior Citizen Life Lessons Sought for Website
Oct. 6, 2004 - Want to share your senior citizen
wisdom with the world? People 60 or older are being sought by
gerontologists at Cornell University to share what life has taught them
on a new Website and, maybe, in a book.
"We're looking for people from across the country
who will describe things they feel they have learned over the course of
their lives," says Karl Pillemer, director of the Cornell Institute for
Translational Research on Aging (CITRA). Pillemer and Myra Sabir, a
post-doctoral associate at Cornell, have established a Web site on which
people 60 and older can pass on the wisdom they've gained over the
years.
Specifically, they are looking for answers to the
questions:
> What are the most important lessons you have
learned?
> If you wanted to give younger generations (for
example, grandchildren) advice about life, what would that be?
> What's your prescription for "the good life" and
how to live it?
These lessons can be in any area of life: work,
family, spirituality, health, marriage, etc. Respondents are invited to
provide as much or as little detail as they like and are welcome to
remain anonymous.
Pillemer and Sabir plan to review and summarize the
responses to shed light on the kinds of wisdom people would like to pass
on to future generations. They also expect to post selected responses on
their Web site and publish them in book form.
Responses can be submitted online at
http://www.citra.org/survey.php
or e-mailed to
lifelessons-mailbox@cornell.edu.
CITRA is a unique collaboration of social science,
clinical- and mental-health researchers. It unites researchers from
Cornell's Ithaca campus, research clinicians in geriatric medicine at
the Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology at the Weill Medical College
of Cornell in Manhattan, and psychiatric researchers at Cornell's
Psychiatric Division of the Cornell Institute for Geriatric Psychiatry
in Westchester, N.Y.
Related World Wide Web sites: The following sites
provide additional information on this news release. Some might not be
part of the Cornell University community, and Cornell has no control
over their content or availability.
*Karl Pillemer:
http://www.human.cornell.edu/faculty/facultybio.cfm?netid=kap6&facs=1
*Cornell Institute for Translational Research on
Aging:
http://www.citra.org/
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