Maintaining connections with other people is a major factor in optimal aging. In this section, a number of contributors share their ideas and research on maintaining healthy relationships and establishing new ones.
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A New Day Dawns and We Rise Cheerfully to Meet It by Garrison Keillor
(My World October 6, 2022)
I know I’m on the last stretch, but I intend it to be a cheerful stretch…
Topics:
Attitudes
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Contemplation, Insight
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Dying and Death
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Memories
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Optimal Aging
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Relationships
Suddendly It's Clear Why I Want to Be Old by Garrison Keillor
(My World September 29, 2022)
The air is golden, smelling of wine and apples and woodsmoke. It takes me back…
Topics:
Attitudes
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Contemplation, Insight
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Contentment, Satsifaction
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Hopes & Dreams
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Memories
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Optimal Aging
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Relationships
How to Crack the Code to Happiness in the Second Half of Life by NPR Staff
(Health & Wellness February 26, 2022)
You've got to do the work. You can't just wish for it, and you can't hope you get lucky.…
Topics:
Achievements
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Advice, Guidance & Mentoring
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Attitudes
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Coping
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COVID-19
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Hopes & Dreams
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Memories
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Optimal Aging
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Relationships
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Research
50th Reunion Spurs Memories by Ken Potts
(Connections July 21, 2019)
Thoughts of the 'In' crowd…
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Contemplation, Insight
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Education
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Friends & Neighbnors
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Memories
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Relationships
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Social Activities
Signs of Aging by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments May 6, 2018)
Thoughts on my world at 90…
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Personal Stories (Biography/Autobiography)
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Change
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Memories
Forgetters by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments July 23, 2017)
Recalling the fleeting moments of our lives…
Topics:
Memories
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Memory (failing, improving)
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Optimal Aging
The Metallic Years by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments April 24, 2016)
Feel like complaining? Take time to reminisce…
Topics:
Change
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Memories
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Optimal Aging
One by One by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments March 23, 2014)
I cannot remember when I last sang Count Your Blessings…
Topics:
Memories
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Thanks, Thankfulness, Thanksgiving
Memory Banks by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments March 16, 2014)
Ol' timers know a lot about piggy banks but what about memory banks?…
Topics:
Memories
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Optimal Aging
Four Score and Five by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments October 13, 2013)
Some things I would like to forget and other things I wish I remembered more clearly…
Topics:
Birthdays & Annivesaries
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Memories
One Year Older and . . . by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments June 30, 2013)
I feel honored to be an octogenarian. …
Topics:
Birthdays & Annivesaries
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Memories
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Optimal Aging
More Thoughts on Aging by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments January 20, 2013)
Some decades ago, I remember…
Topics:
Change
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Memories
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Wisdom
Semantics by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments October 23, 2011)
Out of curiosity, I dug deeply to see how many “Senior Moments” I had written since 2005. I found 301.…
Topics:
Memories
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Writing
Memory Woes by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments September 25, 2011)
A follow-up on "bumps" and "breaks"....
Topics:
Choices and Decision Making
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Circumstances, Life Events
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Memories
Bumps and Breaks by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments September 11, 2011)
Thoughts inspired by an article on "Life After High School"....
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Choices and Decision Making
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Circumstances, Life Events
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Memories
Ice Cream and Coffee by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments May 15, 2011)
When I was about ten times younger (like 8 years old), I remember having my dad buy me a Paddle Pop (that's what we called them then).…
Topics:
Business
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Innovation, Invention, Creativity
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Memories
Reminicsing by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments April 4, 2010)
Dealing with all that memorabilia we accumulate in a lifetime…
Topics:
Memories
Reflections by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments March 21, 2010)
We ask for an opinion, we seek advice and we are deluged with so many options we don't know how to act…
Topics:
Choices and Decision Making
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Memories
Does History Repeat Itself? by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments May 3, 2009)
Fifty years ago, I experienced some pain from a toothache…
Topics:
Health Care
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Memories
Remember When...? by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments January 4, 2009)
My father filled our 1937 Nash Lafayette with gas on the outskirts of Chicago, ten gallons for $1.00. Imagine…
Topics:
History
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Memories
Down Memory Lane by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments May 4, 2008)
Not all senior moments are current. Some are pleasant reminiscences of happenings long forgotten…
Topics:
Memories
Seniors Unlimited by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments August 19, 2007)
Thoughts on writing your memoirs…
Topics:
Computers (and other Digital devices)
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Memories
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Writing
Too Late Smart? by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments May 20, 2007)
In short, this is a person who is able not only to change a light bulb, but knows the difference between a one-way and a three-way bulb.…
Topics:
Change
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Humor
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Knowledge
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Memories
Suppose. . . by Dan Seagren
(Senior Moments January 21, 2007)
Now that we are somewhere in the twilight zone, with slower reflexes and eyes that are dimming, we can think back on these wonderful and not so remarkable years.
Topics:
Choices and Decision Making
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Memories