Harry R. Moody is Visiting Faculty in the Creative Longevity and Wisdom Program of Fielding Graduate University, USA. He is former Vice President and Director of Academic Affairs at AARP in Washington and is currently the editor of the popular Human Values in Aging monthly newsletter. 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." He is the author of Ethics in an Aging Society (1992), Abundance of Life: Human Development Policies for an Aging Society (1988), and over 100 scholarly articles. He is also the co-author of Aging: Concepts and Controversies (10th edition, 2020), Gerontology: The Basics (Routledge, 2018), Dignity and Old Age (Routledge, 1998), and The Five Stages of the Soul: Charting the Spiritual Passages That Shape Our Lives (1997), and the editor of Religion, Spirituality, and Aging: A Social Work Perspective (Routledge, 2005).