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It takes a lot of courage to grow old. I’ve come to appreciate this after conversations with hundreds of older adults over the past eight years for nearly 200 “Navigating Aging” columns. Navigating ...

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“Brooke Shields is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman” (out now from Macmillan) is a vulnerable conversation off the heels of several other tributes to the voices and desires ...

The way we think about aging is broken. Jeanette Leardi, social gerontologist and author of Aging Sideways puts it best: "We tend to have blinders on. We think aging is nothing but deterioration ...

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