Your Aging Advantage: The 7 New Stages of Aging

Rethink age. Redefine the future.

Society has been taught to see aging as a steady decline--but what if it's actually a dynamic, flexible journey shaped by how people live, think, and choose?In Your Aging Advantage, two leading experts in health and aging introduce a new way to understand the stages of life--including the powerful Flicker Stage, where a person's "feels-like" age can shift forward or backward. Whether navigating their own next chapter or supporting aging loved ones, this insightful guide to aging helps people break free from outdated expectations and embrace what's truly possible.With the Aging Advantage Plan--a practical, step-by-step road map--people will learn how to take charge of their future, design a life of passion and purpose, and thrive in every decade. Packed with real stories, actionable tools, and insights grounded in science and lived experience, Your Aging Advantage is not just a book about growing older. It's a call to grow better.

Author: Stuart Kaplan,Marcus Riley
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Published: 04/28/2026
Pages: 220
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9781636989136

About the Author
Kaplan, Stuart: - Stuart Kaplan is the CEO of Selfhelp Community Services and has more than forty years of experience as an executive in not-for-profit health and social care, housing, and community-based organizations providing ongoing strategic, analytic, and operational leadership to national and international senior management teams. He served on the leadership groups of Global Ageing Network, Center for Aging Services Technology (CAST), LeadingAge New York, and UJA Federation of New York, representing thousands ofUS and international health and human service companies.
Riley, Marcus: - Author of Booming: A Life Changing Philosophy on Ageing Well, Marcus Riley is a past chairman and current director of the Global Ageing Network and an appointed member of the UN's Stakeholder Group on Ageing. He is also chairman of BallyCara Limited, founder of the Booming Ageing Agency, and has a distinguished record of leadership roles with international and national organizations. In 2018, he was awarded the Global Ageing Influencer award by Ageing Asia. He is a passionate advocate for positive ageing with more than twenty-five years experience in the field of ageing.