Our Focus in the Coming Year

Ideas for Experiencing a Longer and Healthier life

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The Aging Well Newsletter is beginning its sixth year of free weekly articles. There are 345 to choose from, and when you subscribe, the most recent article will be sent to your email on Friday. Generally speaking, I plan to explore three topics a bit more closely in the coming months:

1. Understanding the Mind-Body Connection in Later Life - with topics such as:

   1. The body as a messenger - what symptoms may be trying to tell us.

   2. Depression beyond mood - physical symptoms we tend to overlook.

   3. The gut-brain connection and why it matters.

2. Defining and Protecting Our Quality of Life as We Age - with articles about:

   1. Rebuilding our identity in the second half of life.

   2. The science of curiosity and why older adults need it most.

   3. How changing times affect us.

3. Navigating the Medical Experience System As We Grow Older - discussing topics like:

   1. The 4 M’s: What Matters, Medication, Mind, Mobility.

   2. Coordinating care, catching issues early, and addressing age-related changes for a better quality of life.

   3. Emphasizing a holistic or integrative approach.

I’m also wondering if there are topics you’d like to read more about. If so, please let me know in the comment box, and I’ll do my best to include them.

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Janice Walton is a psychologist, a widow, a mother, a grandmother, a great-grandmother, and a writer. She has been writing a newsletter on Substack for five years and is in the process of publishing a book.