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This past April, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy created quite a stir when he declared that our country suffers from an epidemic of loneliness and isolation. He issued a 70+ page advisory report on the importance of social connection for the health and well-being of our country. Murthy, the author…

 As we’ve previously posted, social connections in your life appear to be critical for all sorts of health parameters as you get older. Covid underscored that even for the best of reasons, isolating older adults can cause serious negative consequences to their physical and emotional well-being. Even “weak ties,” i.e.,…

By Louise Applebome   Connie Zuckerman, the warm, wonderful, and industrious woman who feeds the agebuzz beast with important and relevant data, food for thought, and information each week, wrote to me recently to inquire about my well-being. Her “check-in” had been triggered by my less-frequent posts here on the…

Retirement and all of its ramifications is an essential topic of interest for agebuzz readers. We are therefore fortunate to introduce you to Renee Langmuir, founder of the website The Rookie Retiree and our newest agebuzz Guest Blogger. Her regular column will be entitled “The Rookie Retiree” and she will…

It’s one thing to live alone, as is increasingly the case among older adults in the United States. It’s another to be socially isolated, which the National Institute on Aging describes as “the lack of social contacts and having few people to interact with regularly.” In fact, many older adults…

By Renee Langmuir (Originally published on the website The Rookie Retiree: Website For New Retirees)   One night – that is the amount of time which you will have to transition to your new, retirement life. How is that possible? One day, you will leave your job. You will come home,…