Researchers studying late-life wellbeing have found that one of the deepest sources of joy is not just being loved, healthy, or financially secure — it is still feeling useful to someone else
There is a version of a good old age that most of us carry around without examining it. In it, an older person is comfortable, cared for, in reasonable health, and surrounded by people who love them. Money is not a worry. The phone rings on the right days, someone remembers the b…