People with strong connections to family, friends, and their communities are happier and live longer.
Friends sitting around a table, talking and laughing.A round of hugs before walking out the door.
Leskin was on her own again. She had no one to commiserate or share her worries with as pandemic restrictions went into effect and waves of fear swept through her community.
Waldinger’s message of hope involves recognizing that relationships aren’t only about emotional closeness, though that’s important. They’re also a source of social support, practical help, valuable information and ongoing engagement with the world around us.Say, for example, you’ve joined a gym and you enjoy the back-and-forth chatter among people you’ve met there.Or, say, a woman from your neighborhood has volunteered to give you rides to the doctor.
After losing her group of friends, Leskin suffered several health setbacks — a mild stroke, heart failure and, recently, a nonmalignant brain tumor — that left her unable to leave the house most of the time. About 4.2 million people 70 and older are similarly “homebound” — a figure thatDetermined to escape what she called “solitary confinement,” Leskin devoted time to writingabout aging and reaching out to readers who got in touch with her.
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