Resilience – the ability to bounce back from adversity and change – may be the single most important positive aging skill needed to successfully navigate midlife and beyond. Much of the scientific research has focused on children, but what about us adults? Midlife statistically has more changes than any time other than puberty, and at …
Life expectancy has changed dramatically for the current generation, but attitudes towards aging have been slow to catch up. Ageism is real in the workplace and positive aging is not well-represented in advertising. TV advertising in particular portrays people over 50 as interested in nothing more than Depends, Viagra, and Medicare. On the flip side, …
My parents are 88 years old as of this writing. With this regal age has come the usual list of health challenges and a surprise gift – Mom’s Alzheimer’s. My mother has often been called a “difficult” woman, so stubborn her dad nicknamed her “Jenny” after his old mule. That’s a true story. But as …
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