Tag: aging
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Why Are Older People Happier?
Read more: Why Are Older People Happier?Science seeks answers. A couple of possibilities: [S]tudies have discovered that as people age, they seek out situations that will lift their moods — for instance, pruning social circles of friends or acquaintances who might bring them down. Still other work finds that older adults learn to let go of loss and disappointment over unachieved…
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Mid-Life Crisis
Read more: Mid-Life CrisisA history, from Scientific American: [Season’s of a Man’s Life author] Levinson felt that midlife crises were actually more common than not and appeared like clockwork between the ages of 40 to 45. For Levinson, such crises were characterized primarily by a stark, painful “de-illusionment” process stemming from the individual’s unavoidable comparison between his youthful…
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Age and Happiness
Read more: Age and HappinessGood news relayed by PsychCentral: Emotional Stability, Happiness Increase with Age “As people get older, they’re more aware of mortality,” Carstensen said. “So when they see or experience moments of wonderful things, that often comes with the realization that life is fragile and will come to an end. But that’s a good thing. It’s a…
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American Family
Read more: American FamilyNYT: Family Relations: An International Comparison It’s not just you. Compared with elderly parents and adult children in five other industrialized nations, Americans are twice as likely to have “disharmonious” relationships, a new multinational study has found. And we’re correspondingly less likely to have “amicable” relationships marked by strong affection and relatively free of conflict.
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Being 70
Read more: Being 70NYT on Ringo, Robert Butler, and ageism: Turn 70. Act Your Grandchild’s Age. “We’re going to make it look like if you’re sick, it’s your own fault; if you’re not having orgasms or running marathons, there’s something wrong with you. We need to think carefully about how to take care of people who are frail. We…