Living

Most of us are carefully counting our coins these days. With inflation high, interest rates low, and future current events uncertain, it’s a challenging time to be saving money and building up reserve funds- not to mention those of us who had to retire early or never quite saved sufficiently…

Despite the growing number of older adults in our population, it seems that many of us in our later years still face strong headwinds when it comes to bucking ageist attitudes. While only comprising 16% of the population in 2017, adults over age 60 will constitute 22% of the population…

Whether it be from Covid, trauma, or the natural aging process (and the inevitable afflictions that arise as a result), many of us may be dealing with the death of loved ones. Be it an older parent or a beloved partner, loss is never easy and grief is something we…

In your fantasy life, where’s your “forever” place? That place you see yourself relaxing in retirement, perhaps taking up some new outdoor activities or engaging in new cultural adventures. Or perhaps your fantasy is more exotic: maybe you’re thinking about leaving your home state or even your home country and…

While not all of us are on track to becoming centenarians, enough of us are that it’s worth studying how people get there and how those with such long lives can live fully and robustly for as long as possible. Only about 1 % of Americans reach age 100 but…

It was once said, “There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them.” What also seems to be true is that dancing can be a “shortcut” to other aspects of physical and emotional well-being. Both from ongoing research and the insights of those who have spent their lives…