Using current science to present old age as a potentially happy, creative, and productive time, Priscilla Long offers lifestyle guidelines to improve your chances of a satisfying old age. Numerous models – including many elders active in the arts – illustrate the possibilities. Long is the author of the forthcoming book, Dancing with the Muse in Old Age, which is all about thriving as we age. While focusing on creative engagement, this webinar is for everyone who is aging. In it, she’ll review the science on aging that shows that negative views of aging can actually cause decline. She challenges ageism and the notion that the burgeoning number of elders, the so-called “gray tsunami,” will drag down the economy. (In fact, we are holding up the economy!)