《最好的晚年》内容简介

　　每个人都会变老，但今天的一个小举动，可能让我们和亲人在晚年少受几十年的苦。

　　让人们恐惧的不是溘然长逝，而是无法自理、卧床不起的无尽折磨。

　　心理学家丹尼尔•J.列维廷也逐步步入了老年生活，有一天早上他发现报纸上的字看不清了，他以为是报社改小了字号，甚至怀疑自己的胳膊一夜之间缩水了。衰老来得如此突然，令他陷入了无尽的思考，也促使他将所思所学与研究成果融汇成一部著作。

　　本书从科普的角度为读者讲解晚年的生活是怎样的，老年人会面临哪些困难，让我们以更细致体贴的心态去理解自己老去的亲人；还会介绍与衰老相关的种种科学真相，并帮助我们为防范衰老提前做好准备；此外，作者还分享了世界范围内一些优秀的养老、临终关怀案例，以及一些将晚年过得有滋有味的老人的生活。全球老龄化已无可避免，但我们可以选择怒斥光阴的消逝，而非温和地走入良夜。

　　作者简介

　　丹尼尔•J.列维廷加拿大国宝级心理学家、知名神经科学家，加拿大麦吉尔大学心理学和神经科学教授，加拿大皇家学会会员，曾于斯坦福大学心理学系、计算机科学系、科学史系和音乐系执教。

　　列维廷在《科学》《自然》《美国科学院院报》《纽约客》和《华尔街日报》等刊物上发表的文章多达300余篇。他的研究被大众媒体报道了1800多次。他是美国国家公共电台和加拿大广播公司的常客，并出席了《早安美国》《今日秀》《CBS今晨》和CNN的节目。他的TED演讲视频浏览量高达1900万次。

　　他曾在微软、谷歌和亚马逊等企业发表演讲，并为美国电话电报公司、博思艾伦汉密尔顿控股公司、苹果公司、索尼公司、微软公司、飞利浦公司、美国富国银行提供咨询。

　　其著作为麻省理工学院等名校的指定课堂教材，并被列入哈佛大学的通识教育核心计划指定阅读书目。

"The Best Old Age" content introduction

Everyone will grow old, but a small action today can save us and our loved ones decades of suffering in our later years.

It is not the sudden death that makes people fear, but the endless torment of being unable to take care of themselves and being bedridden.

Psychologist Daniel J. Levitin is also gradually entering old age, and one morning he found that the words in the newspaper could not be read clearly, he thought that the newspaper had changed the size, and even suspected that his arm had shrunk overnight. The abruptness of his aging prompted him to think endlessly, and to combine what he thought, learned, and researched into a book.

From the perspective of popular science, this book explains to readers what life in old age is like and what difficulties the elderly will face, so that we can understand our aging relatives with a more careful and considerate attitude; It will also introduce the scientific facts related to aging and help us to prepare for aging in advance; In addition, the author also shares some excellent cases of old-age care and hospice care around the world, as well as the lives of some elderly people who will live their old age with enjoyment. Global aging is inevitable, but we can choose to rage against the passing of time rather than go gently into the good night.

About the author

Daniel J. Levitin is a Canadian national psychologist and renowned neuroscientist, professor of psychology and neuroscience at McGill University, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has taught in the departments of Psychology, Computer science, history of science, and Music at Stanford University.

Levitin has published more than 300 articles in Science, Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The New Yorker, and The Wall Street Journal. His research has been reported more than 1,800 times in the mass media. He is a frequent guest on NPR and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and has appeared on Good Morning America, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, and CNN. His TED talk has been viewed 19 million times.

He has spoken at companies such as Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, and has consulted for AT&T, Booz Allen Hamilton Holdings, Apple, SONY, Microsoft, Philips, and Wells Fargo.

His works are included in the curriculum of prestigious universities such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and are on the reading list of Harvard University's Core Program in General Education.