A Short Guide to Your Long Life: Making Your Later Years Your Best Years

From America’s Gerontologist, Dr. Kerry Burnight, comes a practical guide that offers a radical new approach to longevity.

Dr. Kerry Burnight--known to her many followers as ＂Dr. Kerry＂--is sparking a revolution to make older better. Fed up with the fear driven, anti-aging hysteria, hundreds of thousands of people turn to Dr. Kerry for her practical, effective and uplifting approach to navigating longevity--our parents and our own.

In AShort Guide to Your Long Life, Dr. Kerry shares her popular philosophy and tools in a comprehensive resource that moves readers from fear to peaceful confidence. Dr. Kerry’s insights, along with those of her inspiring 95 year-old mother Betty, is based upon a profound truth: the key to good longevity isn’t the length of your life, it’s the quality of your life. Books that advance lifespan and ＂healthspan＂ don’t address the whole picture. Longevity is meaningless if you don’t like your life. Dr. Kerry introduces readers to the critical concept, ＂joyspan＂ based on the science of well-being, contentment, connection, meaning, growth, choice, and purpose.

Part manifesto, part how-to guide, AShort Guide to Your Long Life proves that internal strength is as critical as external fitness. Filled with both perspective-shifting strategies and troubleshooting for the specific challenges of aging--including caregiving, dementia, unexpected diagnoses, isolation, uncoupling via death or divorce, financial concerns, and more-- this book is a stand-alone resource for a generation looking for a new better way to grow older--and to assist our aging parents to do the same.

America’s Gerontologist, Dr. Kerry Burnight, is on a mission to make older, better. Dr. Kerry taught Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology for 18 years at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine. At the University’s Clinical Geriatrics Center, she had a front-row seat to observe thousands of people and their families navigate old age. What struck her most was the radically different way people experience their own aging process. For some, it is a frustrating, degrading, painful trajectory of ever-increasing decline. For others, there is a visible delight in occupying their 8th or 9th decade. For the latter, wry smiles and humor attract others to them like moths to the light.

Improving lives is her true north and the birthplace for this book. As writing goes, she’s published extensively ― academic journal articles, book chapters, magazine articles, and blogs. Kerry Burnight was an invited speaker to the U.S. White House at the Elder Justice Summit, and at the U.S. Department of Justice. She has appeared on such tv programs as Dr. Phil, The Doctors, Money Matters, CBS News, NBC News, Dr. Drew Show, and has been the keynote speaker at hundreds of conferences. She is the co-founder of the nation’s first Elder Abuse Forensic Center, and Founder of TheGerontologist.com. She’s known as ＂America’s Gerontologist＂ for her passion in sharing knowledge about healthy aging via keynotes, podcasts, blogs, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Tiktok.