I am not a doctor, psychologist, or gerontologist, and nothing here is advice about your health or your retirement. The studies I lean on below
Viktor Frankl spent two and a half years in four Nazi camps, lost nearly his entire family, and emerged with an observation that became the foundation of logotherapy — the Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy.
There is a particular kind of tiredness that arrives in adult life, often somewhere between the late thirties and the early fifties, that does not
A woman in her late sixties is making coffee on a Saturday morning. Her husband of forty-one years sits at the kitchen table reading the
You know the type. They open with “how are you,” warmly, apparently sincerely, and somehow, inside about ten seconds, you’re hearing about their week, their
A woman in her early seventies sits on the rug with her four-year-old grandson, who is upset about something to do with a toy. His
Many adults who grew up in the 1970s and 1980s carry a particular kind of childhood geography in memory: the route to school walked alone
For decades the invisible friend was read as a quiet distress signal: a shy, withdrawn child reaching for company they couldn’t find. Researchers who have interviewed hundreds of these children keep finding something closer to the opposite.
There is a generation of Americans, now mostly in their late fifties and early sixties, that came of age inside one of the most concentrated
There is a kind of grief that arrives, often somewhere in midlife, without a funeral, without a death, and without any external event that the
A 2008 survey of more than 340,000 Americans found the low point of well-being sitting around the middle of life, not the end of it.
There is a default picture of late-life loneliness that most people carry around. The empty house. The silent phone. The Sunday afternoon with nobody to