San Francisco, CA - 09-09-2025 - In Start to Finish: A Life Well-Lived, Dr. Lutz invites readers to explore the choices and forces that shape our lives with compassion and honesty. He doesn’t shy away from the realities of life and explains how factors outside our control, including the family and societal circumstances we’re born into, play a fundamental role in how life unfolds.
“Some children get all the opportunities, help and support they need to succeed in school and in life. Others with similar hopes and needs aren’t so lucky”.
He notes that the pursuit of a good, full and healthy life doesn’t rest on a level playing field, making our choices and efforts all the more important. Lutz provides concrete steps we can take to develop a more positive outlook, effective communication styles, deeper relationships, a healthier lifestyle, and reduce self-defeating behaviors.
In Start to Finish, Lutz reviews the dramatic variability in how people age. He notes that in times past, people died younger on average and most often from infectious disease. Not anymore, he notes, not since breakthroughs in antibiotics and vaccines. Unlike in centuries past, Lutz notes that the common causes of death and disability are now degenerative diseases that are heavily influenced by lifestyle.
"We no longer die primarily from infections like past generations," says Lutz. "Today, we're living longer, but not always better. Our lifestyle choices compound over time and are the primary determinant for how we age”.
Providing insights into how genetics and lifestyle interact to affect health, Lutz provides concrete steps to stay healthy and fulfilled through old age. He offers Ten Keys to not just living longer, but more fully. Noting that at the heart of successful aging, is quality of life… not just longevity.
In his final chapter on End-of-Life, Dr. Lutz offers personal experiences and opinions on the complexities and sometimes grim realities of end-of-life care. Revealing his own strong family history of Alzheimer’s Disease, he offers his views on the inherent shortcomings in our long-term care options, and what should change. He argues that people deserve greater personal choice, and proposes a way that advance medical directives can and should be broadened. With compassion and blunt assessment, Lutz doesn’t hold back.
Why This Book Is Making Waves?
• Lutz provides evidence-based choices and skills that anyone can use and develop increase their odds for a long, healthy and fulfilling life.
• In a time of rising inequality, Start to Finish offers a new way of thinking about how success is measured, and what societies prioritize.
• With an aging population, understanding why people are so variable in how they age and what can be done to stack the odds for successful aging takes on urgent importance.
• Dr. Lutz doesn’t shy away from the sometimes-grim realities of end-of-life care and choices, and offers his views on how advance medical directives should be expanded.
• If you're 35 or 75 years old, this book will give you an important message: It's never too late or too early to plan for a brighter future.
This book is not just informative, but practical and acts like a guidebook for the second half of life. It delivers wisdom without fluff--and a realistic plan for a full, happy, and healthy life. Start to Finish is now available on Amazon and through major online booksellers for you to grab.
About The Author
Dr. Lutz is a retired clinical psychologist and professor who specialized in Behavioral Medicine. While on faculty at UCSF Medical Center, he developed and directed the Behavioral Program for their Pain Management Center, and was lead author on a guidebook for healthy aging produced for the California Dept. of Mental Health, Office of Prevention. His life experience and deep appreciation for our shared human characteristics and challenges are reflected in this book.
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Full Name: Robert W Lutz
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