Why Women Improve with Age
Fabafterfifty: ageing
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Article by Dr Lynda Shaw Women improve with age by becoming even better at relationships of all kinds, clearer communicators and have even greater emotional intelligence according to Cognitive Neuroscientist and Business Improvement Strategist, Dr Lynda Shaw. With much talk in the media about the drawbacks of ageing, Dr Shaw says women naturally reinvent themselves as they mature. Dr Shaw explains: “Both genders can relish that experience brings confidence and we learn to enjoy the here and now more as we age. We have realistic expectations and have probably invested heavily in great relationships with friends and family. Most of us care about our appearance, but have also learnt to place importance on other things. That said, women are quite extraordinary as they get older.” “As our oestrogen supply runs down around the time of the menopause and we have been around the block a few times and picked up...
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Happy 50th birthday Tom Cruise – will his birthday help change perceptions of age?
Article by Fabafterfifty. Whether or not his 50th birthday is a happy day for Tom Cruise in light of his wife filing for divorce less than a week of his landmark birthday, only he will know. Landmark birthdays marking the end of one decade and the start of a new are often occasions when we reflect on achievements and challenges of the past, and look towards our life and hopes for the next 10 years. For Tom, no doubt his thinking on both fronts will be going into overdrive! Putting his marital difficulties aside, does Tom Cruise turning 50 help change the perceptions of age. He still plays the romantic lead, still plays the action hero and the still draws in the box office crowds Nobody seems to suggest that he should be swapping the silver screen for his pipe and slippers just yet! 50 is far from old Will...
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Turning 50, the Great Divide
Article by Diane Priestley Journalist and Counsellor Diane Priestley explores the challenges of crossing the Great Divide My daughter’s boyfriend’s Dad just turned 50, celebrating with not one but two spectacular parties with hundreds of guests. He even jumped out of a plane, thanks to the surprise skydiving present from his kids! Turning 50 is a big deal, a major milestone. Of course all birthdays with a zero on the end are significant as they mark entry into a new decade of your life but somehow 50 represents the Great Divide, a sharp line between young and old has definitely been crossed. Fifty means you have lived for half a century on the planet, witnessing half a century of world history. Now that is something! You have definitely seen some sights, experienced euphoric highs and anguished lows, learned some stuff and clocked some serious miles on the Journey of Life....
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Know Your Family Health Story
By Elizabeth A. Havey of Boomer Highway Mothers/fathers, sisters/brothers and a variety of wonderful combinations make up families—yours and mine. We live together and grow together. Often we form wonderful memories of day-to-day life that sustains us in times of struggle and provides laughter when we gather for birthdays and weddings. And though we may share hair color and skin tone, the shape of our noses or the ability to sing or play hockey, we also share a biological heritage that can sometimes mean a propensity for a certain cancer, or the possibility of inheriting a familial disease. Though family get-togethers often mean sharing and planning for the future of children and grandchildren, they should also provide an opportunity for remembering the past. The reason: in our mobile society where every day more blended families are formed and those families often live thousands of miles from relatives, it’s become extremely...
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Suzanne Dando, on her Life at 50 and How Older is Wiser
Interview by Ceri Wheeldon Former Olympic gymnast, TV presenter Suzanne Dando talks to Fabafterfifty about her life at 50. How did you feel approaching your 50th birthday? What struck me was how different I felt approaching 50 to how I felt when I approached my 40th birthday. In the latter part of my 40s I was aware that I was feeling different physically. My 40th didn’t bother me at all, but my 50th felt quite different. I started going through the menopause at the end of my 40s and had some debilitating days which I didn’t enjoy one bit and have to admit to feeling slightly depressed over. As a broadcaster, producers/bosses have in the past, inquired how old I am. It would be good for women to be judged on ability and not just how they look on the eye. It seems younger faces are wanted on TV. I...
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Fit at Fifty and Beyond- Book Review
Article by Fabafterfifty How to be Fit at Fifty and Beyond – Book review Many of us prepare for the financial aspects of our future retirement, but fail to prepare for the lifestyle changes we need in order to remain healthy and fit. Fitness is not just for the young, it is available at any age. Dr Michael Goth. A leading expert on ageing and nutrition, has written Fit at Fifty and Beyond: A Balanced Exercise and Nutrition programme. The book provides sensible advice for mature adults to improve their overall health and well–being, and overall fitness and appearance. The book offers sensible advice on nutrition, highlighting that a healthy diet shouldn’t be viewed as restricting food, but as a change in eating patterns and behaviour that will optimise health and fitness. It contains an excellent chapter on the process of ageing and why we need to adapt our diet...
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The Day the Ladies of Khartoum Came to Tea
Article by by Jaki Scarcello Across the world and across our cultures and varying circumstances we share many of the same daily rituals and sometimes we can be transported into someone else’s parallel moment. The experience can change us forever. This morning in the LA Times I read about the tea ladies of Khartoum. I read about their difficult lives selling tea over open fires on the dusty city streets. I read about the songs they hum and sing as they set their fires at dawn and spread the last embers at sunset. These songs are the keepsakes from their villages and farms and the lush green hills of their past all lost now to war in Darfur. I read about their choice to stay on in the city often without a partner at their side, threatened by violent and corrupt police, to eke out a few dollars toward their... -
50 is just a number
Article by Fabafterfifty How sad!!! That was my initial reaction to a review of Jaki Scarcello’s book, Fifty and Fabulous! in last Thursday’s Daily Mail. Not because the book is depressing- far from it, I have read and reviewed Jaki’s book and found it to be incredibly positive and uplifting, but because the journalist who wrote the review glossed over the book and continued to write about how negative she felt about having recently turned 50 herself. The whole tone of the piece was suggesting that in some way a woman over fifty had become a second class citizen with a list of things it was no longer acceptable to do with many doors closing. On reading the piece a second time however, it became clear that this was how she felt she SHOULD be feeling, that society expected her to fade away and become invisible, hence the negativity and...![50 and fabulous [320x200]](http://www.fabafterfifty.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/50-and-fabulous-320x2001-150x150.jpg)
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