BEING AN ELDER INCREASES LONGEVITY AND CONTENTMENT: A SUBSTANTIATED CLAIM
BEING AN ELDER INCREASES LONGEVITY AND CONTENTMENT: A SUBSTANTIATED CLAIM
he Contemporary Elder Institute (CEI) offers two programs for late-age professionals exiting their careers.
The design of each program is to enable senior executives or older healthcare providers leaving their professional identities and life-earned careers to transition to what is next successfully.
The volume and quality of evidence are more than sufficient to validate our assertion. Studies have shown that in many cases, retirement leads to decreased longevity and swifter mental and physical decline. We can assert with confidence that elderhood offers the reverse.
www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/workingpapers/wp93.html
Elderhood contributes to physical health, mental well-being, and foundational self-understanding.
Our methods, models, and paradigms are in lockstep with the science. The AI, data sets, cohort studies, available matrices, and in our case, established metaphysics strongly validate our mission and that our work on eldering is absolutely on the right track.
FuturSelf – a new digital approach to mental health
Author: Eleanor Garth | June 28, 2022
Profound longevity has released a free online mental health tool based on recent advances in digital psychology.
A group of scientists from Deep Longevity, a longevity startup based in Hong Kong, and the Harvard Medical School has published a research paper on psychological aging, depression, and a new digital approach to mental health.
Longevity.Technology: Publishing in Aging, the researchers detail how deep learning approaches have been applied to create an ensemble of models describing human psychology. One is an aging clock that estimates one's psychological age based on a short survey.
The results show those with a low psychological age have a more explicit purpose in life and are more dedicated to personal growth. However, those of a high psychological age have more meaningful relationships and depend less on others' opinions.
A clear purpose and a dedicated interest in self-improvement bode well for personal longevity. So adding the growing body of research that suggests better mental health leads to improved Longevity and Deep Longevity's free tool would seem a no-brainer.
https://longevity.technology/futurself-a-new-digital-approach-to-mental-health/
MISSION-DRIVEN
The above article, its well-referenced studies, and the volumes of anecdotal evidence all claim that generating a clear and present purpose in late aging is highly advantageous.
At the same time, directly and consciously expanding personal growth was seen to have tremendous benefits. These two elements, purpose and self-development, are core to our work at the institute. An authentic purpose and an undistorted self-understanding are the bedrock of being an elder.
We understand purpose and self-awareness are substratum fundamentals. Still, we find that putting purpose and personal growth into action and having them exist in the world in some more tangible form is the third leg of the institute’s teaching.
What distinguishes contemporary elders is they are willing to have their purpose become their mission. And to use their personal growth to recognize and then reduce egocentrism and emotional paralysis to accomplish their mission—a self-reinforcing loop.
An authentic mission triggers a different operating state involving committed action and demands effectively engaging with other people. It requires leadership. It involves risk. It involves attention and intention. It demands a distinct way of being, that of being an elder.
A purpose is in the stands. A mission is on the court.
Elders bring something to the space that enables people to work their sh*t out.
Put an elder in the mix, and things change. Conditions. People. Words. Feelings. A state where greater humanity rather than righteousness happens.
When switch-throwers hear an elder's voice, their life-rudder or business-rudder turn their ship in a different direction. Elders trim tab.
A contemporary elder is up to a game worth playing because they know it will make them a better player, a more accomplished elder.
Elders bring a transcendent presence and higher wisdom that powerfully impacts people and their futures.
THE DEPARTING PROGRAM - OPENS SEPTEMBER 2022
The Departing Program is for late-age exiting senior executives or healthcare providers who recognize the benefits of continued work in their self-development, who want to give their lives expanded meaning in the last portion of their life, and who are willing to deal directly with the uncertainty and the unstoppable process of aging.
The Departing Program is for late-age exiting senior executives or healthcare providers who recognize the benefits of continued work in their self-development, who want to give their lives expanded meaning in the last portion of their life, and who are willing to deal directly with the uncertainty and the unstoppable process of aging.
The Departing Program is a six-month engagement consisting of one or two Zoom monthly calls, with a single 2 & ½ day onsite interaction at the Contemporary Elder Institute's houseboat. In addition, there is homework-lite, five videos either TED or YouTube videos, three audiobooks, and some bullet-point journaling except for the opening assignment of writing your obituary.
Please note, if you are a company considering this program for your departing senior executives, board directors, or healthcare providers, please contact me about how to best roll out and invite.
We believe offering this resource of eldering on the back-end of employment is an attractor for recruitment and retention on the front-end.
ONE OF OUR TEACHERS AT CEI
Dr. Judy Penski is one of our teachers at the Contemporary Elder Institute. She co-leads our retreats and participates in the Departing Program.
Becoming a contemporary elder is a path of no-nonsense self-understanding, fulfilling a moral purpose, opening your spiritual channel, and acting consistently with an in-the-world mission. When engaging in life as a contemporary elder, the world becomes the ultimate guru and an uncluttered path for self and spiritual realization.
The Departing Program www.requestingwisdom.com/Departing
