Rachel Pruchno, PhD, life-span developmental psychologist and past head of research at New Jersey Institute for Successful Aging at Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey. Dr. Pruchno is currently writing a book based on her work with 50 successful agers to be titled Zest: 9 Strategies for Enhancing Later Life.
In 2024, The Gerontologist published a study nearly two decades in the making titled “Subjective Successful Aging Predicts Probability of Mortality Over 9 Years Among...