According to a new online survey, senior citizens tend to be happier than younger people. The findings fly in the face of the assumptions embedded in our youth-oriented culture, which seems to equate old age with helplessness, disability, loneliness and isolation. The results appeared in the June 2006 issue of the Journal of Happiness Studies, which focuses on the field of “positive psychology.”
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