Is Getting Older Really Getting Better?

Well, For Some Folks Who Are

In Love, It Might Be

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But Others Take a More Nuanced Approach. By their accounting, aging can be an adventure worth embracing if you know how to handle it. But before you can reach that point, you might have to handle some challenges that come your way: care giving, safeguarding your own personal well-being.

Here are some thoughts:

care giving

You have been helping your parents a bit and lately that bit is becoming bigger and bigger. When did you cross over the line and become a care giver? Mark Gibbons of the National Family Care Givers Association says bit.ly/TZkRkm

confused older woman

Your elder sometimes says things that seem to represent her own version of reality. What can you do? Kathleen Kelly who heads the Family Care Giver Alliance suggests that you begin to accept their version of reality as having meaning for them. bit.ly/VGIOdc

older man exercising

You like the idea of living a well-balanced life, but are not certain you want to go that route when it might mean eating plankton and other “yucky” things. Well, Healthy Referral can help you work your way through that dilemma. bit.ly/12q2Nml

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