A dynamic and motivating exploration of the new science that’s redrawing the future for individuals in their forties, fifties, and sixties for the better-and for good.

There’s simply no such matter as an inevitable midlife crisis, Barbara Bradley Hagerty writes with this provocative, hopeful reserve. It’s a misconception, an illusion. New medical research explodes the fable that midlife is normally a time when things begin to move downhill for everyone. In fact, midlife can be a great new experience, when you’re able to embrace fresh possibilities, purposes, and pleasures. In Existence Reimagined, Hagerty clarifies that midlife is approximately renewal: It’s the time to renegotiate your purpose, refocus your interactions, and transform the way you take into account the world and yourself. Drawing from emerging information in neurology, psychology, biology, genetics, and sociology-as well as her very own story of midlife transformation-Hagerty redraws the map for folks in midlife and plots a new course ahead in understanding our health, our interactions, also our futures.