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Aging Anxiety

Teenage Dreams and Mid-life Memories: How Your Brain Gets Smarter With Age

Ben Thomas | Posted 05.04.2013 | Science
Read More: Improve Memory, Aging Gracefully, Aging, Youth, Mental Health, Science, Psychology, Brain Science, Memory Loss, Memories, Neuroscience, Anti Aging Advice, Age-Related Memory Loss, Brain, Aging and Health, Aging Anxiety, Aging Advice, Memory, Aging and Mental Health, Science News
Ben Thomas

you don't need any "miracle" supplements or expensive brain-training games to keep your mind sharp. All it takes is a set of healthy habits.

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What if We're Not Gorgeous When We're Old?

Sienna Jae Fein | Posted 03.10.2013 | Fifty
Read More: Facial Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Baby Boomers, Midlife Women, Aging, Appearance, Midlife Crisis, Seniors, Botox, Beauty, Aging and Beauty, Aging Anxiety, Fear of Aging, Fifty News
Sienna Jae Fein

Aging has got to be OK; we have no choice. We hope for the day when women and men are not devalued for not being young, when they don't feel impelled to "fix" their faces as a hedge against invisibility.

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James Bond, M and Me

Helene Cohen Bludman | Posted 02.19.2013 | Fifty
Read More: James Bond, Skyfall, Workplace, Aging Baby Boomers, Daniel Craig, New Movies, Aging, James Bond Skyfall, Aging Anxiety, Performance Anxiety, Fifty News
Helene Cohen Bludman

What's bugging our still handsome hunk is pure and simple middle-aged angst about losing his edge. Chalk up one more boomer whose investment is yielding diminishing returns. The man is slipping.

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Discovering the Cure to Aging Anxiety

Jennifer Armstrong | Posted 12.30.2012 | Women
Read More: Friendship, Cosmetics, Women, Aging, Women and Aging, Yoga, Advice for Women, Aging Gracefully, Roshi Pat Enkyo O'Hara, Wisdom, Body Image, Sybil Myoshin Taylor, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Zen Buddhism, Village Zendo, Natural Beauty, Aging Naturally, Aging Anxiety, Women News
Jennifer Armstrong

As 9 million people underwent cosmetic procedures last year, I did something else: I hung out with older women.

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How To Live A Deep, Full Life After 50

Carol Orsborn | Posted 05.05.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Baby Boomers Aging, Denial Aging, Aging Stress, Aging Anxieties, Aging Anxiety, Anxiety Aging, Baby Boomers Anxiety, Middle Age Stress, Middle Age Anxiety, Midlife Stress, Stress Over Aging, Midlife Anxiety, Fifty News
Carol Orsborn

As a baby boomer demographic expert, I know the statistics. You name it. Boomers aren't ready for it. For years, we have been in denial about aging.

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Why Getting Old Is A Lot Like Being Young

Rhoda P. Curtis | Posted 08.22.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Age Gracefully, Healthy Living Body, Aging Population, Aging Comfortably, Aging Anxiety, Dependence, Active Lifestyle, Graceful Aging, Teenage Anxiety, Healthy Living News
Rhoda P. Curtis

I have been thinking about what it means to "age gracefully" and I wonder whose opinion seems to matter. Does the aging person feel "ungraceful"? Or is the person viewing the aging person deciding whether or not the aging person is graceful or not?

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A New Faze: Freedom From Worry

Stephanie Gertler | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Preparing for Old Age, Aging Process, Aging Research, Aging, Best Anti Aging, Aging Anxiety, Aging Health, Old Age, Healthy Living News
Stephanie Gertler

Maybe I should go sky-diving or bungee jumping (never done those before!) and see if I can resurrect that old devil-may-care from my youth.

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