Harvard study uncovers keys to healthy, happy life

BROOKLINE – Harvard University's Grant Study reveals underlying reasons for being healthy and happy in the later years of life, according to Dr. Robert Waldinger, the decades-long research project's current director. What indicators can help predict good health and happiness in a person's later years only recently became a focus for researchers conducting the study. The project started as a way to identify prospective military officers among Harvard College men around the beginning of World War

BROOKLINE – Harvard University's Grant Study reveals underlying reasons for being healthy and happy in the later years of life, according to Dr. Robert Waldinger, the decades-long research project's current director. What indicators can help predict good health and happiness in a person's later years only recently became a focus for researchers conducting the study. The project started as a way to identify prospective military officers among Harvard College men around the beginning of World War…