Within an unprecedented series of research, Harvard Medical School has followed 824 subjects — women and men, some wealthy, some poor — from their teens to later years. Harvard’s George Vaillant now uses these research — the most complete ever done anywhere in the world — and the topics’ individual histories to demonstrate the factors involved with reaching a happy, healthy later years.

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