368: Healthy Aging: Keys to Longevity and Happiness in Your Third Age with Dawn Carr, PhD
Retire With Purpose - The Retirement Podcast
Casey Weade
4.7 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Dr. Dawn Carr. Dawn is the Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Claude Pepper Center in the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy at Florida State University and a former researcher at the Stanford Center of Longevity.
She is the co-author of the book, Gerontology in the Era of the Third Age: Implications and Next Steps, where she outlines the key factors that bolster older adults' ability to remain healthy and active for as long as possible. She digs into the complex connections between health and active engagement later in life, focusing on the benefits of paid work, volunteering, and caregiving–and how staying active helps us maintain our cognitive, psychological, and functional well-being.
In our conversation, Dawn shares how losing her mother and grandmother within a month of each other changed her life, how people's lives can truly transform for the better during the third age, and three things you can do right now to live a longer, happier life.
In this podcast interview, you'll learn:
- What Dawn learned studying the science of aging by working with very sick older adults.
- What the "third age" is–and why it's so critical that we make the most of it.
- How to focus on inner connection, get vulnerable, and dig into what truly matters most to you in life.
- Why working part-time (or volunteering) has so many of the protective health benefits of full-time work without the same level of commitment.
- Why nations like Japan experience some of the best longevity in the world–and how we can apply those lessons to our own life.
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| 0:00.0 | When we're younger, we're thinking about making money, fame. |
| 0:03.0 | Like all the research says that's crap, right? |
| 0:05.0 | You need enough money to not be poor because being poor is very difficult to live with poverty. |
| 0:10.0 | Bad for our health too. |
| 0:12.0 | So we need enough money, but really it's about human connections that's the most fundamental to our ability to thrive. |
| 0:19.0 | And I think that's what we see. |
| 0:20.0 | We get aware of when we look |
| 0:22.0 | around and we're like, is this what it's about? No, I want to make a difference in the world. And that's |
| 0:26.3 | finding ways to connect with people and build connections, meaningful connections. |
| 0:41.7 | Welcome to the Retire with Purpose podcast. |
| 0:47.8 | This is your host, Casey Weed, and this is your opportunity to meet one of a world-class guests. |
| 0:51.2 | We do this every other Monday in a long-form interview. |
| 0:54.5 | And then, for those of the, you've been watching the podcast for some time now, you know that every Friday, my good friend, Marshall Johnson and I, we get |
| 0:59.5 | together and cover a trending topic from our weekend reading for retirees email series. |
| 1:04.5 | Our mission here today, as it always is on the podcast, is to provide you clarity and |
| 1:10.0 | purpose and elevate meaning in your |
| 1:12.6 | life through personal and practical financial strategies. We do that by having both financial |
| 1:17.5 | and non-financial conversations. Today, we are going to lead in that conversation towards |
| 1:22.3 | the non-financial with our guest, Dr. Don Carr. She is the associate professor of sociology and director of the Claude Pepper Center in the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy at Florida State University. She was previously a researcher at the Stanford Center of Longevity, which we've had several guests from the Stanford Center of Longevity here on |
| 1:45.5 | the podcast over the years. She received her PhD in social gerontology and masters in gerontological. |
| 1:52.9 | All right, Dawn, say it for me. |
| 1:56.0 | Gerontological. |
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