WOW: Women's Older Wisdom

Aging Together:  How We Manage Our Later Years

By PAT TAUB and LISA SAVAGE Aging with a loved one can tap into joys, strengths and the benefits, but also health changes, family tensions, and potentially devastating financial challenges. Consider this scenario: Friends of friends [...]

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Recognize Self-Defeating Thinking

Aging can be so challenging for the older woman that it’s a wonder any of us enjoy a happy old age, but it’s within reach once we learn to recognize thinking patterns that box us in. It’s natural to indulge in thinking about good times in the past.  Romancing the past can be problematic when it becomes obsessive and obscures the reality [...]

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