OPENING DOORS FOR SENIORS: October 2016

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

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Opening Doors for Seniors is looking for your input and doing research into topics to benefit Seniors. You can help by sending posts with questions, topics of interest, giving personal experiences that will give us direction in making a difference in your lives. Your information will always remain confidential unless you care to share some or all of it. Below you will find a place to make comments that helps to refer, advocate and share experiences that will help you and others.

LAUGTHER IS GOOD FOR THE SOUL

That's according to eye-opening research that found the happiest Americans are the oldest, and older adults are more socially active than the stereotype of the lonely senior suggests.

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The two go hand-in-hand — being social can help keep away the blues.

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"The good news is that with age comes happiness," said study author Yang Yang, a University of Chicago sociologist. "Life gets better in one's perception as one ages."

A certain amount of distress in old age is inevitable, including aches, pains and deaths of loved ones and friends. But older people generally have learned to be more content with what they have than younger adults, Yang said.

This is partly because older people have learned to lower their expectations and accept their achievements, said Duke University aging expert Linda George. An older person may realize "it's fine that I was a schoolteacher and not a Nobel prize winner."

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RICH'S BACKGROUND

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IMPORTANT DATES

HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN!

SENIOR HUMOR

LAUGTHER IS GOOD FOR THE SOUL

BE ACTIVE!

EXTRA BENEFITS OF EXERCISE

ENDING THE MONTH WITH MONEY