Did you know that positive self-perceptions about aging can increase longevity? A study of 660 people age 50+ found that older individuals who perceived aging positively lived 7.5 years longer than those with less positive self-perceptions about age. The advantage remained after age, gender, socioeconomic status, loneliness and functional heath were included as predictive variables. […]
Silver Disobedience
You Get What You Need
“You Can’t Always Get What You Want” by The Rolling Stones is often playing in my head. I think there’s a lot of truth is that title, but I particularly like the subsequent line that holds a bit more insight about a life philosophy: “You get what you need.” Being comfortable with ageing is closely […]
Does Creativity Decline with Age?
Does creativity decline with age? An internet search on the topic pulls up a variety of articles comparing adolescents to those potentially in their grandparenting years—and for the majority, the articles conclude that creativity declines with age. My very un-clinical, yet highly observational, inter-human research completely contradicts and refutes this anti-aging “research.” To the contrary […]