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Terri Cole: WATCH: Need a Fearlessness Boost? Get More Sleep!

2012-05-26T11:11:50Z

This week, I want to explore how sleep and fear are related. Their connection is direct and undeniable, as lack of the prior leads to an increase in the latter.

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Brent Green: Is American Idol Ageist?

2012-05-24T21:15:18Z

Older artists can achieve extraordinary dreams if given a chance.

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Where Men Are Starting To Catch Up With Women

2012-05-23T14:20:00Z

Maybe it's all the coffee or maybe it's all the jogging and home-cooked meals, but American men are closing the longevity gap between women, according...

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Vivian Diller, Ph.D.: 'Why Should I Be Happy About Being A Grandmother?!'

2012-05-21T17:06:00Z

Today, for millions of women who are reaching that stage of life, is about more than just vanity. It raises other complicated feelings less common among women from previous generations. For better or for worse, grandmas are just not what they used to be.

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Jim T. Miller: Adult Tricycles for Boomers and Beyond

2012-05-21T14:00:27Z

Three-wheeled bikes -- also known as adult tricycles -- are a great cycling option for older boomers and seniors, especially those who have concerns with their balance or stamina.

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Nancy Deville: The ‘Make It Or Break It’ Age For Your Health (And 8 Ways To Revamp Your Routine)

2012-05-20T10:40:21Z

The early 40s are the years to make significant changes to head off accelerated aging. It's a "make or break it" time of life. You can tailspin into aging, or you can revamp and renew yourself.

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Zaki Hasan: On Time Passing

2012-05-16T22:43:15Z

It's funny how a seemingly arbitrary milestone can end up becoming the cue ball that sends a whole mess of thoughts about age, personal growth and professional goals bouncing around your head.

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Tracy Beckerman: Losing the Aging Game by a Hair

2012-05-17T17:41:20Z

If she had been an adult, I might have rolled my eyes cynically. But from a kid, it was the ultimate compliment.

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Melanie Curtin: 10 Things I Know Now That I'm Thirty

2012-05-16T09:31:46Z

I'm not perfect, but I'm doing the right things for the right reasons. In other words, I'm 30, and I've earned it.

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Ann Bauer: Why Men Won't Talk About Impotence

2012-05-16T09:08:00Z

In researching my book, I asked men about performance issues. What happens in your head when you can't get it up? How does it become (as I've heard it can be) a self-perpetuating problem? I'm close to literally a dozen fine, garrulous older men. But when I broached this topic, every one of them turned red and stammered and then was struck mute.

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Barbara Hannah Grufferman: The Travesty of Being a Post-50 Woman in America

2012-05-15T14:47:23Z

According to a new study from OWL (Older Women's League National Board), women over 50 are in dire straits.

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Ellen Dolgen: Not Sleeping Beauty: Dealing with Insomnia in Menopause

2012-05-15T12:02:29Z

When I was young, I used to envy princesses like Snow White and Sleeping Beauty for their charm and singing voices. When I entered perimenopause, I started to envy them for a different reason.

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Jim T. Miller: 6 Ways To Get The Most From Your Doctor's Appointment

2012-05-15T09:24:00Z

Dear Savvy Senior: Can you write a column educating patients on how to prepare for doctors appointments? I manage a number of small health clinics, and have found that patients -- especially seniors -- that come prepared when they visit our doctors are much more satisfied with the care they receive.

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Quora: What Is It Like to Be a Teenager Today?

2012-05-14T17:29:40Z

This question originally appeared on Quora.

By James Wang, Quora user

I am 18. Let me tell you what life is like. It's awesome and I love it....

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Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Manopause: There's Gold for Some in Those Unneeded Hormone Pills, Shots

2012-05-14T13:32:16Z

The anti-aging industry has gone wild diagnosing men with nonspecific and virtually ubiquitous symptoms with dubious hormonal deficiencies, which they then proceed to treat at great expense.

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Kate Fridkis: I Can Tell Where This is Going: Signs of Aging in my Twenties

2012-05-14T14:25:57Z

Maybe this is just what I look like at 26. Sometimes fresh, sometimes utterly tired. Sometimes taut, sometimes slackening. In flux. Which is what we all are, always, whether we know it or not.

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Judi Freedman: Mothering My 90-Year-Old Mom

2012-05-13T07:45:00Z

Ugh, it's not easy being a caregiver to an aging parent. However, this weekend we were three wild and crazy girls out milling around and doing a whole lot of chilling (as my son often says when I ask him what he is doing). No worries, no deadlines, just having fun.

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Douglas LaBier: Can You "Grow Up" During Midlife? Here Are Five Ways

2012-05-12T17:17:18Z

Learning to embrace both the "positive" and "negative" experiences of midlife is the path to growing up into full adulthood. Here are five suggested steps.

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Dr. Bruce A. Chernof, MD: 10 Conversations to Plan for Aging with Dignity and Independence

2012-05-10T18:54:38Z

Aging with dignity and independence is the ability to live life to its fullest in the place you call home regardless of age, illness or disability. Wh...

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Barbara Hannah Grufferman: 5 Tips for Becoming Fearless After 50

2012-05-10T18:06:04Z

How can we ignore the noise from the media about how "younger is better" and stay on course? How can we stop fearing (and fighting) the aging process and learn to embrace it?

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Heather Choate Davis: What Inspires Me About My Mom's Generation

2012-05-10T09:29:00Z

I thank God every morning for these women who dare to bare their puckered thighs and their kangaroo midriffs and their bright, carefree smiles, shouting with their very presence that there are more important things in life than looking young. We need desperately to hear this.

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Ann Margaret Carrozza: Don't Let Bad Estate-Planning Make You Homeless!

2012-05-09T20:51:55Z

Transferring your home to your children is a clumsy method of trying to accomplish your estate-planning goals. Having counseled thousands of families , I can tell you that this well-intentioned transfer is more likely to do harm than good.

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Amanda de Cadenet: Alicia Keys Reveals Who She Respects Most

2012-05-09T12:42:24Z

Amanda and Alicia touch upon society's obsession with being youthful and why Alicia looks up to her elders.

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Marcia G. Yerman: Dayle Haddon: 'Giving Back Makes Me Feel Young And Beautiful'

2012-05-09T09:33:00Z

Dayle Haddon, a top model in the 70s and 80s, was 38 when her husband died unexpectedly. Left without an economic base or source of income, she tried to go back to the world of fashion and beauty, and was succinctly told that she was "over the hill."

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White House Holds First Conference On Gay Aging In Miami

2012-05-08T16:59:00Z

Gay seniors, like seniors in general, worry about safe housing, good health care and having enough money in retirement.

But according to those att...

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