Aging: Concepts and Controversies

About Harry R. MoodyJennifer R. Sasser

Harry R. Moody is a graduate of Yale University and received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University. He has taught philosophy at Columbia University Hunter College New York University and the University of California at Santa Cruz.  He recently retired as Vice President and Director of Academic Affairs for AARP in Washington DC.  He is currently Visiting Professor at Tohoku University in Japan and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Fielding Graduate University.  Dr. Moody previously served as Executive Director of the Brookdale Center on Aging at Hunter College and Chairman of the Board of Elderhostel (now Road Scholar). Moody is the author of over 100 scholarly articles as well as a number of books including: Abundance of Life: Human Development Policies for an Aging Society (Columbia University Press 1988) and Ethics in an Aging Society (Johns Hopkins University Press 1992). His most recent book The Five Stages of the Soul was published by Doubleday Anchor Books and has been translated into seven languages worldwide.  He is the editor of a newsletter Human Values in Aging reaching 10000 subscribers each month. In 2011 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society on Aging and in 2008 he was named by Utne Reader Magazine as one of  50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World. Jennifer R. Sasser is Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Human Sciences at Marylhurst University in Portland Oregon where she coordinates the gerontology program. She joined the Marylhurst faculty in 1997 and since that time has been involved in the design and implementation of many on-campus and Web-based courses and programs for adult learners including the graduate and undergraduate certificate programs in gerontology. While conducting her doctoral work at Oregon State University she was a graduate teaching and research fellow as well as the first recipient of the AARP/Andrus Foundation Graduate Fellowship in Gerontology. Over the past 20 years Dr. Sasser has studied and written about creativity in later life; older womens embodiment; critical gerontological theory; and transformational adult learning practices. She served on the Oregon Gerontological Association Board of Directors starting in 2005 and was President of the Board for three years. In 2012 she received a Distinguished Teacher award from the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education.