Ever wonder about how creative you'll be in your later years? A UC Davis psychology professor has developed a theoretical model that could predict just that. The model shows that older people have a rate of output around half of what existed at their career peaks, but that the rate will actually exceed what they achieved during the first decade of their careers, according to Dean Simonton, who talked about his model at a recent meeting of the American Psychology Society. Additionally, creative productivity in later years depends in large part on what career someone pursues. For example, those in fields such as history or philosophy tend to have a peak later in life, and therefore, their decline after their peak is lesser, Simonton says. Those creative types who start their careers with the most potential tend to have higher rates of output in their final years and so their "last hit" tends to appear late in life. And for those late bloomers, rest assured: Those who start their creative careers much later than normal can expect their peak to be delayed, and they will be going strong in their last years.