Biography

Harry (Rick) Moody, Ph.D., retired as Vice President for Academic Affairs with
AARP and is currently a Faculty Fellow at Fielding Graduate University and
visiting faculty with Tohoku University in Japan. He previously served as Executive
Director of the Brookdale Center on Aging at Hunter College and Chairman of the Board
of Elderhostel (now Road Scholar). He is author of many scholarly articles, and books
including co-author of Aging: Concepts and Controversies. a gerontology textbook
now in its 10th edition. His book, The Five Stages of the Soul, was published by
Doubleday and has been translated into seven languages worldwide. He is the editor
of the "Human Values in Aging" newsletter, with 5,000 subscribers monthly. In 2011
he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society on Aging and
in 2008 he was named by Utne Reader Magazine as one of “50 Visionaries Who Are
Changing Your World.” His current book, Climate Change in an Aging Society, will
be published next year by Routledge. He lives in San Mateo, California.