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By Louise Applebome   November 2024 was a month of profound sadness, disappointment, and loss.    And then we have to dig down deep to conjure up our toughest survival skills.    First, there was the U.S. presidential election.  The results were not a shock.  The shortened campaign by the…

Perhaps at no other time of year does a lack of friends become so glaring. If you’re not invited to holiday gatherings or not getting together with some buddies for a holiday gift exchange, this can be an especially painful time to acknowledge your loneliness and lack of friendships. Research…

By Renee Langmuir   I never thought I would be old. No – I didn’t think my life would end at an early age. I just couldn’t picture myself as an old person.  Dr. Hal Hershfield, a professor of Marketing and Behavioral Decision Making at UCLA, has spent a decade…

The writer and activist Letty Cottin Pogrebin once said, “We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.” The challenge, as an older adult, is maintaining and sustaining those long-term friendships while seeking out newer friendships as life evolves in your later…

By Susanna P. Barton   Getting older is a wonderful privilege and we can all do a better job embracing the positives. In addition to assuming new roles as grandparents, mentors, seasoned specialists, and leaders, we get to celebrate our wrinkles and refined appearance and account for all the incredible…

It’s a dilemma that many older women (and some men) confront: Whether to allow your face to age naturally without “intervention” or whether to embrace procedures, either (or both) small or large, to limit the effects of gravity, the loss of collagen, skin eruptions and other facial factors that affect…