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How does the future look to you? Are you looking forward to better days to come? If so, you’re not only an optimist, but you’ll likely end up enjoying “exceptional longevity.” According to new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, being optimistic could boost your…

You may remember when she first came on the modeling scene in the early 1970s- a beautiful picture of “imperfection” with her gap-toothed smile and earthy sensibility. Lauren Hutton, now 75-years-old and the new global ambassador for the skincare company StriVectin has had a five-decade modeling career with only a brief…

If you’ve been paying attention to the news, or are just a consumer of popular culture, you know that loneliness is now considered a major public health problem. In a bit of irony, it seems the more “connected” we are as a culture, the more many of us feel alone…

By the time we reach our later years, we carry a lifetime of experiences and relationships, with all of the complexities that can accompany a richly lived life- not to mention the physical and mental health challenges that can also arise as we get older. Occasionally these complexities create legal…

While there’s a wide array of fashion, beauty and style advice aimed at older women, for older men the advice is less prevalent, but perhaps no less needed. In fact, older men may suffer from ageism as much as older women and one commentator has even predicted that in the…

Once we’ve reached a certain age, many of us are not really interested in being constrained by rules or other people’s opinions of how we should live our lives. And that holds true in the realm of fashion as well. By the time we’ve reached a “seasoned maturity,” most of…