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Monday, June 4, 2012 8 Things That Make Or Break Your Happiness: Study If you want to be happy, focus on health, relationships, simple pleasures and achieving a sense of control of your well-being, according to a survey of more than 4,000 adults age 35+ released today by the AARP. The study looks at how happiness changes over time and how age impacts the factors that are most important to well-being. The survey confirmed two decades of research suggesting that happiness is U-shaped over the life cycle: It peaks in one's 20s and begins to decline, bottoming out in the mid-to-late 40s and rising again in old age. A study by David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald, leading researchers in the field of subjective well-being, found that after controlling for factors such as income, education and marital status, "happiness bottoms at age 49 for American males and 45 for American females, and ages 44 and 43 respectively for male and female Europeans." (The AARP study found people hit bottom between age 51 and 55.) WATCH: How Post 50s Can Backpack Through Europe Meet The Real Threat To Marriage Why More Older Americans Are Going Abroad For Medical Treatment Top 10 Employers For People Over 50 Why It's So Hard To Read the Small Print BLOG POSTS Jane Adams Ph.D.: Why Kids Don't Leave Home -- It's Not (Just) the Economy Baby boomers have been enabling their kids' extended adolescence for over two decades, spurred on by their desire to have a more honest, authentic, intimate connection with their children than most of them enjoyed with their own parents. Martha Nelson: Retirement RX: No Shortcuts and Whole Cashews Only Now that I'm retired, I should have enough time to treat everyday projects with tenderness and care. I should be able to do things without rushing, to create a life without shortcuts. Marie Marley: When Alzheimer's Is Funny: A Brief Walk on the Light Side of Dementia While dementia is serious and tragic, this fact needn't overwhelm the spirits of patients and caregivers. Laughing together can create a sense of enjoyment of life. Enid Borden: A Father's Day Message to all Dads As Father's Day approaches and we think of our dads and all they mean or meant to us, I say a silent prayer that my father has finally found the peace that he never seemed to enjoy in this life. Sharon Greenthal: How Did She Get That Way? A Mother Reflects On Her College-Grad Daughter As a stay-at-home mom for twenty years, I did a lot of teaching, modeling, explaining, hand-holding, comforting... I also did a lot of learning from both my son Adam, a junior in college, and my daughter Katie, who graduated from Boston University in May.

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