Making the Best of Their Not-Young-But-Not-Dead Phase

Midlife crisis isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. A survey by AARP finds 45-55-year-olds largely upbeat, though some subgroups are less bubbly. On the broad question of how satisfied they are “with the way your life is going these days,” 53 percent declared themselves “very satisfied” and 35 percent “somewhat” so; 3 percent were “very dissatisfied” and 6 percent “somewhat” so. Respondents whose household income tops $100,000 were about twice as likely as those making under $30,000 to be very satisfied (71 percent vs.