Focuses on the program offered to adults ages 55 and up year-round at about 2,000 sites in the United States, Canada and in more than 85 foreign countries, and includes the positive impact the experience has had in participants' lives. Widowed seniors should take time before beginning new relationship. Drawing on the experience of a couple and experts, this piece looks at the challenge older Americans, who have lost a spouse to death, face when they try to pick up the pieces of their lives and begin new relationships. Couples planning for retirement need to make relationship a priority. Examines the importance for retired couples to thoughtfully consider how they are going to spend their lives together now that they are not separated by different careers, and offers helpful recommendations on making their transition a healthy, fulfilling one.
Retirees have to gear up to make the move from a home full of memories.
Looks at the challenge of sifting through, packing and unpacking the things of both a lifetime of clutter and a lifetime of memories, offering helpful hints and suggestions to successfully make the transition into a new home. Exercise seen as key to fight age-related diseases. Looks at mounting research that notes that physical activity, especially aerobic exercises, can help prevent such conditions as high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, obesity and osteoporosis, and offers 10 tips for seniors to get started . Retired journalist goes back to school, savors Scripture's richness. A first-person account from Catholic press editor Gerald M. Costello, who recounts how retirement allowed him the opportunity to act on his desire to spend time learning more about the Bible and what that has meant for his life today.