According to Beethoven: “Music can change the world.” If you’re a fan of Bob Marley, his thoughts are: “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” Whether you believe music can heal the world or wipe out your aches, there’s one clear […]
While hunkering down at home is an absolute must during our tragic pandemic, it’s vital that you find ways to stay active and healthy. Under normal circumstances, sadly, people don’t get enough exercise. Especially people over the age of 65. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), […]
With an increasing number of areas on lockdown, it’s worth bringing to the surface the idea of avoiding the replacement of one danger with another. Here’s what I mean. While social distancing helps us do our part in flattening the curve (yes, please do it), we don’t want Coronavirus to cause a loneliness […]
You’re sitting there dreaming of all the wonderful things you want to accomplish during your retirement… You visualize your exciting plans and then start to think about what you need to do to make it happen. You start grand and then go narrow, processing not only what you need to do this year, […]
If you’re worried about losing your cognition as you age, there’s a sound reason for it. It runs rampant… According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in the US alone, the number of people who suffer from Alzheimer’s and related dementias is expected to double to an unsettling 417 million […]
Old people are boring – truth or myth? While you can split hairs and say “it depends on the individual,” it’s certainly a broadly accepted stereotype that old people lead boring lives. Here’s why: Humans fall into a serious habit of doing the same thing repeatedly. You could even say a part […]
Contrary to what you might imagine, life in a 55+ community can be robust and exciting. In fact, a Holleran Consulting survey of 57,900 respondents revealed that nearly 90% of senior living residents rated their overall satisfaction as good or excellent and 84.5% would recommend their senior living community to other people. If […]
You’re sitting there, staring blankly ahead and thinking to yourself… Where do I go from here? Your so-called retirement years can either be a true sense of the phrase “golden years” or, sadly, the stereotypical boring bust. To steer you toward the more exciting (and healthy) path, I’ve laid out four simple […]
You’re sitting there feeling a bit unmotivated by the sheer amount of nothing that’s getting done. And sure, there are a million things that you could do right now to work through your to-do list… But you’re just not feeling it right now. Why? It’s not that you don’t have dreams, wishes or goals. It’s […]
What are you thankful for? If the answer rolls right off your tongue, science tells us you could be in pretty decent shape on several levels. As leading life and business guru Tony Robbins puts it: “Gratitude is the antidote to the things that mess us up. You can’t be angry […]