Changing Minds

Changing Minds provides a clear understanding of the connection between aging and language. Most importantly, it provides sets of practices that can help you harness the power of language to live longer and better. - Dan Buettner, author of The Blue Zones: 9 Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who've Lived the Longest Roger Kreuz and Richard Roberts have done it again - and made it look easy! Their new book, Changing Minds, is a superbly written and highly accessible overview of a neglected topic, namely, how aging affects a person's ability to communicate through language. Anyone who is getting older or who interacts with anyone who is getting older - and, of course, this is everyone - should read this fun and informative book. - John Kounios, coauthor of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain; Professor of Psychology, Drexel University From the first page, I found myself reading this book with the same care and enthusiasm as I would a novel. It is a well-researched, well-crafted, and utterly fascinating exploration into how we use words and how language becomes us as we age. It goes beyond the structure of language and language acquisition and change and instead gives a rich cultural context necessary to appreciate the complexity of language. - Kate de Medeiros, O'Toole Family Professor, Scripps Gerontology Center, Miami University, Ohio