"We're so conditioned, women in our 40s, to think, OK, well, I'm creeping closer to the end. You know, you think you go into menopause and you're going to stop having sex, and your boobs are going to sag, and your skin's going to go crepey, and all these things," Winslet said. "But, first of all, so what? And secondly, it's just conditioning."
No one warns you about erotic grief. We hear about and live menopause, testosterone changes, cancer treatment, chronic illness, and the slow, steady realities of aging-but almost no one prepares us for this part: One day, desire may not be as effortless as it once was. It may not rise on command. It may go quiet, or slow down, or disappear for stretches. And that shift can break your heart a little.
"There is a saying about old age - 'Keep moving' - and what Clint Eastwood, 95, says: 'Don't let the old man in,'" he said. "The way to do that is to keep getting up in the morning, keep working out in the gym, keep taking your vitamins, keep taking your prescribed meds, and keep moving. Keep moving. That is the secret to it all."
I left after three years and went to work for an aerospace company back in New Jersey. I then had the opportunity to work with a manufacturer as a systems engineer, as well as with a smaller company as the vice president of a small division. At my final company, I served as vice president, and we had contracts with the Department of Defense.
Older adults are often mocked ("OK, Boomer!"), set off to the side, or treated as incompetent nuisances, at least in much public discourse. So, where did the expression come from? In earlier times, older adults were treated as the repository of knowledge, elders who could provide sage advice to the less polished members of younger generations. There is, then, a tradition of viewing older adults as valued and respected members of their communities.
The liver's primary function is to detoxify things — break them down and make them into usable units of currency for the body, or get rid of them if they're harmful. As we get older, toxic byproducts of alcohol linger in the body The liver breaks down alcohol with the help of enzymes, but as we get older it produces fewer of them, meaning toxic byproducts such as acetaldehyde — the compound responsible for many hangover symptoms — linger in the body.
Patricia Willson, 93, stares intently at her leg as her nurse unwraps layers of bandages, revealing a scar that, to Willson's elation, is nowhere near as gruesome as it had been months ago. Hunched over from a fractured back, Willson scrolls through her phone to remind her nurse what the scar had looked like. Last December, she sliced her leg open on a box. A few months later, the three-inch gash got infected.
As we get older, we must choose between different options in life again and again. Once we decide on one option, the others often disappear forever. If later in life someone is unhappy with the choices they made, it is common for them to start thinking 'What if?' thoughts. One important question is: Is 'What if?' thinking harmless, or does it make people feel unhappy about the choices they made and their lives in general?
At 78, his days of death-defying stunts might be over. Schwarzenegger told Business Insider that he has accumulated more than his share of aches and injuries over time, due to skiing accidents, long hours in the gym, and intense action films. "That's a lot of stress on a body and clearly the body was not meant to do all that," he said.
When Shakespeare wrote "To sleep, perchance to dream," was he thinking wishfully? Remember when you could sleep anywhere, anytime? Your head hit the pillow and you were out until morning. Seems those days vanished somewhere between middle age and retirement, replaced by nights spent staring at the ceiling, performing word games on your smartphone, and tapping your charging Apple Watch to check on the time until it was light.
I love my parents, but since they retired three years ago, it is as though their brains have drained out of their ears. I am not talking about their opinions on politics, but just basic common sense. I saw my parents actually ask grocery workers putting out fresh fried chicken if the birds were from last night, and get offended when told no and that it would be a health
There isn't a soul on the streets of Chelsea on a Sunday in summer. The residents of this New York neighborhood once an industrial area in lower Manhattan, now transformed into a haven for bohemian bourgeois have abandoned their luxurious lofts overlooking the High Line to retreat to their beach houses in the Hamptons.
New findings from Harvard researchers pinpoint reduced inflammation as the key to cocoa's effects against cardiovascular disease. The work follows a large probe of the possible health benefits of cocoa that ran from 2014 to 2020. Called COSMOS, the study showed that cocoa supplements reduced cardiovascular disease mortality by 27 percent among 21,442 subjects 60 and older. What that study didn't explain is how.
So sorry not to have mentioned it but when you receive this email we will have "shuffled off this mortal coil". The decision was mutual and without any outside pressure. We had lived a long life and together for almost 75 years. There came a point when failing senses, of sight and hearing and lack of energy was not living but existing that no care would improve.
Fricker said she spends every day in pain and gets out of breath just talking, stating: "I've never known tiredness ever in my life". The "weary" former Coronation Street and Casualty star, who is also known for playing the pigeon lady in Home Alone 2, said that she asks herself: "Will I ever get up again?" "I'm having a dreadful death," Fricker told The Guardian. "I'm just dying - every day in pain," she said, wryly adding: "I'll probably live to be 100."
It's easy to be drawn in by fancy bottles, or to grab something from the top shelf with a hefty price tag and assume that the cost means it will be delicious. Sometimes this is true, but there are also plenty of bottom-shelf bourbons worth drinking. And when it comes to overall value - the best quality bourbon in its price range - it is tough to argue with Evan Williams Straight Bourbon Whiskey.
When I did eventually get the test, I found out what was really happening to me. I learned that a build-up of earwax ( don't use Q-tips!) had immobilized one of my eardrums completely. After the somewhat uncomfortable removal, the test was rerun. I do have some hearing loss, which isn't unusual at 72, but the audiologist feels I'm years away from needing hearing aids.
