Which would you consider to be the age of greatest happiness? Childhood? Your twenties? Actually it's old age.
A 1998 Fordham University survey confirms findings first reported by Gail Sheehy, author of Pathfinders. Both show that men generally are happiest in their middle sixties, and women during their seventies.
And the unhappiest time? That's the early fifties for men and late forties for women.
Source: reported in Talkback Trash and Treasure
Applications: happiness, aging, old age