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Rethinking Life Expectancy: What It Means to Live—and Create—Well
When we talk about life expectancy, we’re often referring to the number of years we’re statistically expected to live. But there’s another important measure gaining attention: healthy life expectancy—the number of years we can expect to live in good health, free from serious illness or disability. For many, this number is significantly lower than overall…
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Start Where You Are: A Creatively Aging Guide to Sharing Your Family History
You’ve probably said it to yourself before: “One day I’ll write down our family history.”“I need to record Grandpa’s stories before they’re lost.”“There’s so much to tell, but I don’t know where to start.” If that’s you, you’re not alone. So many people—especially those of us in the second half of life—feel a pull to…
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From Keepsakes to Choruses: How AI Tools Like Suno and ChatGPT Are Helping Creatively Aging Folks Sing Their Stories
A journal entry from 1973. A faded Polaroid of your first garage band. A poem you wrote and tucked into a cookbook your daughter now owns. For decades, those pieces of life—the letters, the lyrics, the memories—sat in drawers, on shelves, in forgotten folders. But today, they’re not just keepsakes. Thanks to tools like Suno,…
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Welcome to Creatively Aging: Where We’re Just Getting Started
Now that I’m definitely into my sixties, I feel more and more a sense of change. I think we of a certain age often feel the things we’re experiencing due to accumulation of years are unique to us in some way and it’s often surprising when we find ourselves in situations where others our age…
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