Aging with Grace: What the Nun Study Teaches Us About Leading Longer, Healthier, and More Meaningful Lives

by David Snowdon · 2002 · Paperback, eBook

Aging with Grace: What the Nun Study Teaches Us About Leading Longer, Healthier, and More Meaningful Lives book cover

The remarkable story of the Nun Study — a decades-long research project on 678 Catholic sisters — which revealed the factors that protect against Alzheimer’s and promote extraordinary longevity. Purpose, education, positive emotion, and community emerge as key.

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