Deans' stroke musings: The Surprising Age When Life Satisfaction Peaks

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Friday, August 7, 2026

The Surprising Age When Life Satisfaction Peaks

52; nope, still married and not fired yet or moved to Michigan.

Peaks for me from 59 till I die!

Well, at age 50 I had my stroke and the result of that is making me happy for the rest of my life. Got divorced at age 58, fired at age 56. All leading to moving to Michigan and finding lots of new friendships.

Why my stroke was the best thing to ever happen to me

The Surprising Age When Life Satisfaction Peaks

Do you feel satisfied? The answer might just depend on your age.A new survey of more than 6,400 older Americans offers new insight into the things that really matter in life, and when. Cherry Signals Data, a consumer research and digital PR firm, spoke with 6,442 participants 65 and older to reflect on when they felt most fulfilled, as well as the roles that family, career, friendships, romance, and lifestyle played in their overall well-being — and what respondents said may surprise you. For many respondents, age 52 is the point at which they felt most satisfied.“The findings suggest that, for many Americans, peak life satisfaction arrives in the early fifties,” the report notes. “By that stage, many people have moved beyond the more uncertain years of early adulthood and may have built some of the foundations commonly associated with stability: close relationships, family ties, a home, an established career, and enough financial comfort to enjoy small luxuries such as travel, meals out, hobbies, or time with loved ones.” While the overall age landed at 52, the magic number varied dramatically by state, from 37 in Maryland and Mississippi to 57 in California and New York. The survey didn’t explore why some states skewed younger or older, and the authors note that state-level figures should be viewed as estimates rather than definitive measures. Perhaps the clearest takeaway from the survey is that happiness seems to be rooted in connection. Romantic relationships often receive the bulk of attention in discussions about life satisfaction, but respondents in this survey placed a high value on the wider network of personal relationships they had built over the years. More than one-third said those connections were what brought them the most happiness, far outpacing any other category.