Mind & Emotions

As life expectancy increases it is not uncommon to find baby boomers coping with the pressures of full time work and the care of elderly parents.

Countless filmgoers left Monty Python's `Life of Brian' singing `Always Look on the Bright Side of Life', but how many have?

If you feel you simply need some winter mental health pick-me-ups, try the following to stir you out of hibernation!

There are so many research-based reasons for continuing education as we age, it’s hard to know where to begin.

Feeling lonely is not a state anyone wants to find themselves in for very long, and for good reason. Research shows loneliness can detrimentally affect our immune systems, heighten our blood pressure, and increase our cholesterol.

A decline in the sharpness of memory, as we grow older, can be disconcerting. Yet, if we take time to check out our concerns with friends of a similar age, we’re soon reassured we’re not the only one.

Have you ever entered a room and felt overwhelmed by the colour of the walls or décor? If you think colour has effected your mood, you won’t be the first person to have experienced what many consider to be the psychological affects of pigmentation.

When retirement offers all the potential in the world, why is it many approaching this milestone are so afraid of it? As it happens, it’s the fear of becoming irrelevant because of it.

Even though we do lose physical capacity with age, there are many ways in which our competence increases.

One minute you’re happy as; just minding your own business and getting on with daily life. The next, wam-kapow, you’re knocked for six by a single negative comment.