We find that older adults are better than younger adults at making decisions to discontinue such failing commitments especially when irrecoverable losses are large, as well as at coping with the associated irrecoverable losses. Our results are relevant to interventions that aim to promote better ...
If you have an attic or basement full of supplies for a hobby you hoped would become a career, clearing it out may feel like giving up on your dreams, or it may force a confrontation with the fact that you are getting older. If you lack confidence in pursuing a long-held dream, keep...
It is much easier to cope with stress, including within the family, if you are fit. This means that you may need tostart taking a bit more exercise. Getting outside in the fresh air is also good, and if you can combine the two, so much the better. There is more about this in ou...
Yesterday we celebrated New Year’s Day with an early trip to the ER. The little one (okay… 30 years old, but the youngest and the shortest so… little one) finally caved and went to find out what the flank pain in their side was. Turns out that 2 weeks doesn’t necessarily make ...
As you get older, jet lags start hitting you harder and it takes longer for you to recover from them. It becomes more difficult for your internal clock to synchronize with the external clock of the new place. When you have been traveling enough times, you pick up a trick or two to red...
A study by Mroczeka (2013) that conducted on single women over the age of 60 found that they ignored sexual needs because they did not have anybody to have sex with; Participants also stated that this need decreased as they got older and they felt very little of this need in themselves ...
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gadot stopped to talk to a woman with long blonde hair who looked like she’d just woken up and was slowly getting her 10 minutes of cardio in before the real workout began. it was the newly slender adele, whom i didn’t recognize until she let loose with one of those honking laughs...
Will this getting used to living with little or nothing teach us anything? I don’t know yet, but surely the decisions we make in this time of emergency could set a new future for us. Breathe BY GAËL TURINE Getting out of my home to see and feel the emptiness caused by confinement...
short term stuff everyone associates with Alzheimer’s. Yes, he repeats conversations over and over; and yes, he often can’t remember if he’s had lunch or fed the dog or brushed his teeth. But he also has increasingly less grasp on those older memories I expected him to be enjoying ...