A though-provoking article about healthspan vs. lifespan. Healthspan measures incorporate quality of life in ways that lifespan does not.
With the unprecedented growth of the world’s aging population, the author believes that figuring out ways to measure biological age...
The author of this article made some interesting observations about building her community later in life-ideas that can help us too.
She writes, "I stopped looking for “my community” years ago, trying to fit in somewhere when one, I didn’t, and two, I really just wanted to be...
Perhaps the best kept secret of all time, “the root of happiness is gratitude”. This is so true as it’s impossible to feel grateful and unhappy at the same time.
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Aging often comes with cognitive decline, but “SuperAgers” are showing us what is possible in our golden years.
What researchers are learning from SuperAgers and about dementia prevention could allow us to discover new protective factors in lifestyle, genetics and resilience for common changes that arise with aging.
In this guest blog post on New Way Forward, Richard Leider, author or co-author of multiple best-selling books including The Power of Purpose and Who Do You Want to Be When You Grow Old, shares his wisdom on the power of purpose in retirement.
A few of the...
Why do so many people have an immediate, intuitive grasp of this highly abstract concept—“subjective age,” it’s called—when randomly presented with it? It’s bizarre, if you think about it.
But “How old do you feel?” is an altogether different question from “How old are you in your head?”
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