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By now, especially if you’ve been vaccinated, you’ve likely broken out of your pandemic restrictions and embraced a return to gatherings with family and good friends. Over the years agebuzz has promoted the importance and value of friendships for your health and well-being. It’s likely, however, that the pandemic has…

If you’re lucky, you may have one or two decades-long friendships (known in today’s world as BFFs, or Best Friends Forever) in your life. But as we age, few of us maintain a large group of friends. For most, having a small circle of friends is enough to make you…

by Hope Reiner,  Founder, Hope and I   Few would disagree that our sense of community is undergoing a revolution. Our culture leads us to focus on what websites or news blogs we read, what social media platforms we are part of, and which celebrities we follow. But it does not…

It’s been said that a friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future and accepts you just the way you are. But for many of us, having or making a good friend as we get older seems almost beyond reach. Friends from the past may have fallen…

It’s likely no surprise that loneliness continues to be a significant public health concern in the United States. As we reported last year when Surgeon General Vivek Murthy raised alarms about the public health crisis of loneliness in our country, loneliness is not only a subjective individual feeling of disappointment…

By Mary Fridley   Happy New Year and best wishes to the agebuzz community for a healthy, peaceful, and creative 2024!   As anyone who has read my column knows, I love to share articles,  blogs, or interviews that help me grow. This was definitely my response after reading “Speak,…