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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Breaking the Taboo on Loneliness

“I hate coming home to an empty house.  The silence can be deafening.”  “I can go days without speaking to anyone except the clerk in the grocery store or my mail carrier.”  “I rarely reach out to my friends when I’m feeling lonely because I’m too embarrassed to admit I’m lonely.”  “My daughter tells me to stop feeling [...]

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