Harry R. Moody

Harry R. Moody serves as Senior Associate with the International Longevity Center-USA and Senior Fellow of Civic Ventures.

Dr. 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); Ethics in an Aging Society (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992); and Aging: Concepts and Controversies, a gerontology textbook now in its 3rd edition. His most recent book, The Five Stages of the Soul, was published by Doubleday Anchor Books (1997) and has been translated into seven languages worldwide.

A graduate of Yale (1967) and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University (1973), Dr. Moody taught philosophy at Columbia, Hunter College, New York University, and the University of California at Santa Cruz. From 1999 to 2001 he served as National Program Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Faith in Action and, from 1992 to 1999, was Executive Director of the Brookdale Center at Hunter College. Before coming to Hunter, he served as Administrator of Continuing Education Programs for the Citicorp Foundation and later as Co-Director of the National Aging Policy Center of the National Council on Aging in Washington, DC.

Harry Moody is known nationally for his work in older adult education and recently stepped down as Chairman of the Board of Elderhostel. He has also been active in the field of biomedical ethics and holds appointment as an Adjunct Associate of the Hastings Center.

In recent years he has been an invited speaker at Yale, Stanford, Notre Dame, Brown, the University of Yokohama, and the Chattauqua Institution. He has frequently been interviewed on TV and radio about Elderhostel and personal growth in the second half of life.

Recent speeches and workshops have included the following:

• "Life Review: Becoming the Person You Were Meant to Be"
• "Dreams & Fairy Tales for the Second Half of Life"
• "The Search for Meaning in Later Life"
• "Ethical Dilemmas in Work with Older People"
• "Fund-Raising in the Field of Aging"
• "What We Can Learn from Elderhostel"

	Harry R. Moody can be reached at:      Harry R. Moody   PO Box 575   Palisades, NY 10964   hrmoody@yahoo.com.   (202) 434-6363   More information about Harry R. Moody is available at: www.hrmoody.com