Introduction -- The changing demographic context of aging -- Biological determinants and malleability of aging -- Wellbeing as experienced by the very old -- Psychological wellbeing later in life -- Nutrition and lifelong wellbeing -- Physical activity, exercise, and aging -- Capability and independency in later life -- Combating isolation through technology in older people -- Wellbeing and vitality in later life -- Education and its role in wellbeing -- The threat to wellbeing from cognitive decline -- When vitality meets longevity -- Maintaining wellbeing through the end of life -- Cultures, aging, and wellbeing --Wellbeing in the oldest old and centenarians in Japan -- Wellbeing in later life in eighteenth-century England