Friends who really get you matter more with age. Research on friendship, feeling understood and being yourself suggests where to find them and how to let them in.
From Skippy to The Brady Bunch, the TV theme songs many boomers can still sing along to, the stories behind them, and what research suggests about why they’ve stuck for so long.
Why do the songs of our youth still feel like a hug from the past? Research on memory, nostalgia and the brain helps explain it, and suggests how to make the most of them now.
We all talk about ourselves more than we realise. Research suggests that asking one more question, and resisting the urge to shift the spotlight, can make conversations more meaningful.
The first year of retirement is a good time to set a few things in place. Here’s what research and official guidance suggest, from finding a purpose to sorting the paperwork.
Heart-to-hearts are the conversations we tend to put off. Research suggests they go better than we expect, and the ones worth having in later life may matter more than we think.
Advice comes from love, but research on parents and grown children suggests what they often want most is to be heard. Here’s what careful listening does, and what it can look like.
Not every shrinking social circle is a worry. Here’s how to tell healthy change from withdrawal worth noticing, and why reaching out is likely to be more welcome than you think.
Your best at 75 won’t look like your best at 45, and that’s the point. A Stoic philosopher, a famous pianist and research on ageing suggest how to do your best, whatever the day brings.
Research on how adults talk with young children suggests which kinds of grandparent phrases are most likely to last, from ‘Do you remember when…?’ to ‘You worked hard on that’.
