Asking For A Friend: Understanding The Nature and Benefit Of Friendships in Later Life
July 14, 2021
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…
BFFs: Holding On To Friendships In Your Later Years
November 13, 2019
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…
Friend Power: The Value Of Friendships For Older Isolated Adults And Those With Dementia By Hope Reiner
July 24, 2019
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…
Finding Friendship: Making And Maintaining Friendships As You Age
May 8, 2019
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…
Fast Friends: Old Or New, Friends Are Critical In Your Later Years
November 6, 2024
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…
Marry Me: Married Older Men Age Better
August 28, 2024
As with most things in life, men and women tend to do things differently. When it comes to aging, men fare better in certain areas and women tend to do better in others. However, when it comes to marriage, the impact on healthy aging now seems clear: Men seem to…