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A Woman's Perspective: Why Sex is Better as an Elder

Friday Feb 05 2010

By Elizabeth Brown

We’ve already experienced what works and doesn’t work for us regarding sex. And now we know it is about passion, trust and playfulness…[Read More]

Written by eldering at Fearless Aging

Tagged with: elder health love pleasure satisfaction sex soul

7 Reasons Why Elders Make Great Lovers (and have better sex)

Tuesday Feb 02 2010

By Jim Selman | Bio

There is an old joke that says, “Sex after 60 is better than ever, but the mounting and dismounting aren’t so pretty.” If you’re laughing, you know what I’m talking about. If not, you’re still young enough to have something to look forward to. I attended a conference recently featuring Steve Pavlina, the number one blogger on personal development. The topic was about expanding traffic to your blog and one of his ideas was to write about something ‘timeless’, something that lots of people have in common and that breaks the mold of everyone’s expectations. Well, my writing has been about transforming our notions of growing older and to encourage intergenerational dialogue, so what better topic to muse on than SEX.[Read More]

Written by eldering at Fearless Aging

Tagged with: aging being conversation development ecstasy elders feeling giving growing intergenerational judgement love lovers older patience pavlina personal present receiving relationships satisfaction sex sexual-satisfaction steve wisdom

Happiness and Age

Thursday Aug 21 2008

The Journal of Positive Psychology recently published the results of a multi-year study of 818 people between the ages of 18 and 94 into the origins of life satisfaction throughout adulthood. The research team's findings indicated that:

The key components of successful aging are not cognitive or physical functioning (older people tend to rate their happiness as high or higher than young people, in spite of medical concerns)
Self-reported health is not a key predictor of satisfaction
Knowledge, skills and experience required in life are not significantly associated with satisfaction
The capacity to reason abstractly and draw inferences was a key predictor of satisfaction in younger and middle-aged adults (intelligence is highly valued when one is still in the workforce)
Things that dissatisfy us the most remain constant

Lead author Karen Siedlecki, a post-doctoral research fellow in the cognitive neuroscience division at Columbia University, stated that, "The really key components of successful aging may be how happy you are and how satisfied you are with your life, and these factors don’t tend to decline with age.”[Read More]

Written by eldering at News

Tagged with: age happiness satisfaction