Katherine Esty

 Katharine Esty, eighty-five, has been a change agent throughout her long life.   Trained as a psychotherapist and as social psychologist, she was managing partner of a diversity and strategic planning firm for twenty years consulting across the nation and internationally. Today she is a practicing psychotherapist and a writer. Esty, a widow, a mother of four and a grandmother, lives at a retirement community west of Boston. Now she is focused on creating a new vision of old age and a new understanding of possibilities for life in your eighties. In "Eightysomethings," Dr. Esty shows readers how to embrace—and thrive during—the later stages of life. Based on her more than 120 interviews around the country, Esty explores the lives of ordinary eightysomethings—their attitudes, activities, secrets, worries, purposes, and joys. Their stories illustrate how real people in their eighties are living and how they make sense of their lives.