Growing Old

Author Marie de Hennezel On The Sacred Task Of Aging

Debra Ollivier | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Aging Process, Aging Gracefully, The Art of Growing Old, Marie De Hennezel, Baby Boomers, Growing Old, Aging, Fifty News

Marie de Hennezel is best known as the therapist who guided the late French President Jacques Mitterand through the final stages of his cancer. She's been leading the crusade to help people grow old gracefully, with dignity, and with joy.

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Why Can't We Age Gracefully, Live Life Large and Die in Our Own Flower Beds?

David Wilson | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Aging Gracefully, Dementia, Aging, Assisted Living, Senior Citizens, Growing Old, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Fifty News

The latest dream I have undertaken is to create a "not for profit" senior living and memory care campus that promotes actively living and thriving beyond the walls, rather than existing within them.

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My Life in Seven Days -- and a Few Minutes

Dorian de Wind | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Aging Parents, Aging Gracefully, Caregiving, Aging, Grandchildren, Growing Old, Grandparents, Raising Grandchildren, Graceful Aging, Fifty News

A couple of years ago, feeling sentimental and having just finished the seventh decade of my life, I suddenly realized that, at age 70, days pass like minutes, the years go by like days.

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The New Post 50: Why We All Get To Be The Boss

Carol Orsborn | Posted 04.16.2012

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I no longer view being old as an ending to my involvement in life in a vital and powerful way. Rather, I see it as the initiation of a new life stage during which I am freer than ever to achieve my true human potential.

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What Counts At Age 86

Emma Lou Thayne | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Value of Relationships, Growing Old, Relationships, Aging Gracefully, What Matters at 86, What Counts at 86, Religion News

The older I get the more I realize that what really matters at any age is relationships. I like to think of them as being horizontally to the human and vertically to the divine.

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Why Marriage Gets Better With Age

Jeanine Earnhart | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Growing Old Together, Growing Old, Long Marriage, Long Married Couples, How to Have a Long Marriage, Weddings News

I sat in my office the other day and watched an elderly couple as they walked together. I asked myself if my husband and I would be holding each other up when that day came. I'd like to think so.

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I Hate Growing Old!

Lewis Richmond | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Regret, Baby Boomers, Growing Old, Aging as a Spiritual Practice, Aging Gracefully, Aging, Aging and Regret, Aging Issues, Fifty News

Regret is a universal quality of aging; each of us has a collection of regrets by the time we are in our forties or fifties. Younger people have regrets too, of course, but for the young there is always the sense that there is time to start over, to try again, to reverse ill fortune.

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Are You Psychologically Ready to Be Old?

Michael Friedman, L.M.S.W. | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Late Life Love, Preparing for Old Age, Aging Advice, Aging Preparation, Growing Old, Growing Older, Healthy Aging, Later Life, Aging Process, Mental Preparation Aging, Fifty News

Satisfaction with your life when you are old is not only about looking back with pride. It is also about living well now. The essence of this is remaining active and connected with other people.

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Anti-Aging Creams And Potions: A Buddhist View

Lewis Richmond | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Aging as a Spiritual Practice, David Crary, Anicca, Anatta, Dukkha, Baby Boomers, Aging, Buddhism and Aging, Retirement, Growing Old, Buddhism, Religion News

The Buddha taught three fundamental facts of life. They are true at any age, but aging brings them into sharper and more poignant focus.

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Prayers Of Longing And Thanks

Emma Lou Thayne | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Mormonism, Relationships, Death, Death and Dying, Aging, Growing Old, Lds Church, Spirituality of Aging, Old Age, Coping With Old Age, Mormon Poetry, Religion News

At 86, I find my crowded Rolodex full of parentheses. That's what I add to names of people there who have died. It's both a joy and a sorrow to see those names as I look for others to call.

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Does Buddhist Meditation Still Work When You're Older?

Lewis Richmond | Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Spiritual Bypassing, Meditation, Shunryu Suzuki, Dalai Lama, John Welwood, Enlightenment, Seinfeld, Buddhism, Aging, Buddhism and Aging, Meditation and Age, Growing Old, Baby Boomers, Religion News

I meet many Buddhist meditators these days who say to me, "I've been meditating for decades. When I was young it was fantastic. But it doesn't seem as helpful or useful as it once did."

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Elderhood: A Buddhist Approach To Aging Well

Lewis Richmond | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Aging and Spirituality, Elderhood, Baby Boomers, Buddhist Teaching, Buddhism Aging, Social Security, Growing Old, Medicare, Buddhism, Religion News

Each day and every day for the next twenty years, 10,000 boomers will turn 65. This is a fact with enormous implications for our politics, our society -- and, I believe, our spiritual life.

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The Lost Art Of Growing Old Gracefully

Katharine Quarmby | Posted 11.17.2011

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My pledge to my daughter, and to all the other daughters in this world is this: You will see me grow old. You will see my hair turn grey.

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The Sweet Mystery Of Life

Sister Joan Chittister, OSB | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Godliness in Life, Essence of Mystery, Growing Old, Holiness of Life, Presence of God, Mystery of Life, Spirituality, What-Is-God, Religion News

In age, mystery comes alive. Nothing is very sure anymore. Everything speaks of maybe and perhaps, might and possibly. Like children, we learn to wonder again.

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12 Things I Wish I Knew At 25: Spiritual Learnings On My 50th Birthday

Rev. James Martin, S.J. | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Spirituality, Birthday Lessons, Growing Up, Mid-Life Reflection, Birthday Reflection, Teachings of Jesus, Life Lessons, Birthday Meditation, Growing Old, Mid-Age Reflection, Religion News

For a lark yesterday, on my 50th birthday, I Tweeted 12 things that I wish I had known at 25. Maybe a few will help someone you know who's 25. Maybe one or two will help you.

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The Benefits of Getting Good and Old

Cynthia Dill | Posted 11.17.2011

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Go back to the day after Thanksgiving. Serenity might be too strong a word, but forgive yourself: your mind is still foggy from heavy injections of sugar, butter and tryptophan. You are experiencing Thanksgiving nirvana.

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The Passing Of Time And The Chapel Of The Soul

Matt Idom | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Changing of the Seasons, Aging, Passage of Time, Growing Old, Old Age, Changing Seasons, Spirituality, Ageing, Season Change, Passing of Time, Religion News

What seems like a temporary eternity in life and circumstances teeters before the next shift of wind.

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Men Need a 'Lift' Too: Aging Levels the Playing Field

Vivian Diller, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Aging, Aging Men, Men Growing Old, Men Aging, Growing Old, Aging Pressures, Healthy Living News

I know Boomer males are struggling with their aging bodies too. Just like their female counterparts, they are living longer and expect, as Bob Dylan wrote, to be 'forever young.'

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I'm Younger in My Sixties Than I've Ever Been Before

Virginia Bell | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Growing Up, Growing Old, Aging, Growing Older, Aging Wisdom, Widsom Aging, Healthy Living News

At 60 I experienced even more freedom. Then, over the past few years I started noticing that I felt good, really good -- calmer, saner, more at peace with myself and the world.

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Two Senior Tickets for Avatar

Dennis Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Senior Discounts, Aging, Whole Foods, Popcorn, Avatar, Growing Old, Los Angeles News

I'm 58, tall, lean, athletic build for a guy my age. But I'm four years shy of senior discounts, the Early Bird Special and my next colonoscopy. Really? Senior tickets?

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Duke! Mama's Home: From the Detroit Stories

Lester Sloan | Posted 11.17.2011

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Back home again, her three-and-one-half hours of dialysis over, my mother negotiates her way through a maze of bags, chairs and boxes, toward the hazy out-of-focus shapes of the kitchen.

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Circles

Stephanie Gertler | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Reinvention, Growing Up, Solitude, Growing Old, Midlife, Dream Interpretation, Midlife Crisis, Family, Healthy Living News

There is an urgency lately that prevents me from wanting to be where and who I am right now. And no, it's not a mid-life crisis. I'm longing for yet another re-invention.

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95 year old Grandma Drops Boyfriend For 'Not Voting'

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Elderly, Relationships, Politics and Relationships, Voting and Relationships, Growing Old, Voting, Elderly Voters, Healthy Living News

If I am only lucky enough to live to be 95 and energetic enough to have a 96 year-old boyfriend, I only hope that I also still have the good sense to break up with him on moral grounds.

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McCain, Obama, and Some Painful Truths About Aging

Dr. Robert Epstein | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: John McCain, Brain, John Mccain Age, Senior Moment, Elderly, Aging, Growing Old, Healthy Living News

72-year-old McCain is the oldest person in U.S. history to run for the presidency. The age issue is one of many that will help decide the upcoming election. What's the truth about it?

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Americans Now Work Later Into Their Lives

AP | DAVE CARPENTER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Working Later, Growing Old, Telecommuting, Retirement, Aarp, Business News

CHICAGO — Americans are changing the game plan for retirement, with millions laboring right past the traditional retirement age and working into...

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