Calling all seniors: Cornell University gerontologists are looking for people 60 years of age or older who are willing to share what life has taught them.

"We're looking for people from across the country who will describe things they feel they have learned over the course of their lives," says Karl Pillemer, director of the Cornell Institute for Translational Research on Aging (CITRA). Pillemer and Myra Sabir, a post-doctoral associate at Cornell, have established a Web site on which people 60 and older can pass on the wisdom they've gained over the years.

Specifically, they are looking for answers to the questions:

• What are the most important lessons you have learned?
• If you wanted to give younger generations (for example, grandchildren) advice about life, what would that be?
• What's your prescription for "the good life" and how to live it?

These lessons can be in any area of life: work, family, spirituality, health, marriage, etc. Respondents are invited to provide as much or as little detail as they like and are welcome to remain anonymous.

Pillemer and Sabir plan to review and summarize the responses to shed light on the kinds of wisdom people would like to pass on to future generations. They also expect to post selected responses on their Web site and publish them in book form.

CITRA is a unique collaboration of social science, clinical- and mental-health researchers. It unites researchers from Cornell's Ithaca campus, research clinicians in geriatric medicine at the Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology at the Weill Medical College of Cornell in Manhattan, and psychiatric researchers at Cornell's Psychiatric Division of the Cornell Institute for Geriatric Psychiatry in Westchester, N.Y.