Research: Older adults are happiest Americans - USATODAY.com: "This is partly because older people have learned to lower their expectations and accept their achievements, said Duke University aging expert Linda George. An older person may realize 'it's fine that I was a schoolteacher and not a Nobel prize winner.'
George, who was not involved in the new study, believes the research is important because the general public continues to think that 'late life is far from the best stage of life and they don't look forward to it.'
Yang's findings are based on periodic face-to-face interviews with a nationally representative sample of Americans from 1972 to 2004. About 28,000 people aged 18 to 88 took part.
There were ups and downs in overall happiness levels during the study, generally corresponding with good and bad economic times. But at every stage, older Americans were the happiest."
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