{"id":480768,"date":"2026-02-15T02:49:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T02:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/480768\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T02:49:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T02:49:31","slug":"time100-health-kerry-burnight-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/480768\/","title":{"rendered":"TIME100 Health: Kerry Burnight | TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rich-text self-baseline font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mb-0 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\" data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">Gerontologist Kerry Burnight is rewriting the aging narrative. Burnight\u2019s 2025 book Joyspan: The Art and Science of Thriving in Life&#8217;s Second Half advises readers to prioritize four key ways to age with joy, not fear: grow, connect, adapt, and give. Burnight wants to encourage older people to lean into their age and live with gusto and deep-rooted well-being. The book became an instant hit, landing on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists. \u201cJoy and purpose and vitality are not limited to younger years,\u201d Burnight says. \u201cThe idea that you have to be or look or feel young in order to fully participate in life is so limiting and so harmful.\u201d Burnight coined the term \u201cjoyspan\u201d\u2014a take on lifespan and healthspan that has caught on as readers embrace the positive outlook\u2014to help people \u201csee the incredible beauty and power and strength in being older,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gerontologist Kerry Burnight is rewriting the aging narrative. Burnight\u2019s 2025 book Joyspan: The Art and Science of Thriving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[77477,64,63,10967,137,500,77478,5275,77479,77480,241396],"class_list":{"0":"post-480768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-accolades","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-franchise","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-healthcare","14":"tag-list","15":"tag-magazine","16":"tag-special-project","17":"tag-sponsorshipblock","18":"tag-time100-health-2026"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}