Report Reveals Seniors Are Optimistic About Aging

The Revera Report on Happiness is out, and its foundational finding is this: “You don’t just get wiser with age...The older you get, the happier and more optimistic you are about aging.” Produced in partnership with The International ...

 
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It’s Healthy to Be Happy, Says New Study on Seniors

Seniors with a positive attitude counteract loneliness and all its harmful effects: that’s the good word from a new study cited in this McKnight’s Long-Term Care News post.

Canadian researchers followed 122 seniors over a six-year period, says the ...

 
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Atria Senior Living Friends Making a Difference

Volunteering does a body good. Good friends Harold Meininger and Eddie Welch, residents at an Atria Senior Living community in Florida, know this firsthand.

Welch is 74 and Meininger is 96; both are active volunteers within the assisted living community they call ...

 
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Behind the Lens: Dr. Jeffrey Levine Captures Images of Positive Aging

Earlier this spring, Dr. Jeffrey Levine reached a milestone: he’s been The Gerontologist cover guy for 15 years.

The New York-based physician-photographer has captured septuagenarians, octogenarians, and centenarians since 1996.

A geriatric specialist, Levine has worked with The Gerontologist (published by ...

 
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