Articles and Stores about Embracing Elderhood

A Rite of Passage from Hero to Elder

February 14, 2020 | Connie Zweig

The shift from Hero to Elder doesn’t happen automatically. It requires inner work, described here. It requires a rite of passage.

If You Have The Privilege Of Being Seventy, Don’t Waste It!

November 18, 2019 | Carrie Knowles

Seventy is the new outspoken. Speak up!

Reflections on Retiring in the Helping Professions

July 30, 2019 | Connie Zweig

Each week I shared intense intimacy with my clients and guided them where others fear to tread – into the shadow. And I feel privileged to have watched them alter ingrained self-sabotaging patterns and lead more fulfilling lives. My days were filled with depth and intimacy, and I felt gratitude. But during my 68th year […]

On “Elderhood”

June 5, 2019 | Jeanette Leardi, ChangingAging Contributor

A new book by geriatrician Louise Aronson calls us to rethink medicine, aging, and life itself.

The Tony Bennett Effect

May 21, 2019 | Jeanette Leardi, ChangingAging Contributor

Adaptability, resourcefulness, and generativity are personality traits available to us, most especially in our later years.

Ageing and living gracefully: How to adjust your home to suit your needs

January 15, 2019 | Emily Wilson, ChangingAging Guest Blogger

You have spent your life building up your home so it’s comfortable and suits you, but as you age, your ability to live in your home becomes less easy. It is important to adapt your home and the way you go about life to stay safe and secure and also to maintain a decent quality of life. No one likes to think of growing old but there are ways to adjust your home to your needs as you age.

I Work With Elders Because I Am Selfish

January 1, 2019 | Kyrié Carpenter, Managing Editor

Over a decade ago I left the beach towns of Florida I had always called home. I packed up a station wagon and headed to the millennial’s promised land, Brooklyn. Before I left, a friend and mentor recommended that I read Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. This quote by the main character struck me, changed my […]

What’s Your “And”?

July 31, 2018 | Jeanette Leardi, ChangingAging Contributor

For improvisers, Yes And means you accept what the other player presents you with, without blocking it or denying it, and then you react constructively to it. You add to it. I invite you to join me in improvising our way through these later years. It’s easier than you think.

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