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Talking About It: Aging and Mental Health
There is power in talking openly about mental health and mental illness. Featuring expert insight and personal stories, find support and resources on how to challenge stigma and rethink mental health as we age.
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Perceptions on Wealth in Retirement
The Retirement Gap is a real-life problem. Learn how to prepare for whatever retirement may look like for you.
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Navigating Change
Growing a business means managing change. Read how entrepreneurs like you have done just that and found resources to succeed.
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Art + Aging in Community
Nationwide workshops and festivals offer community for aging artists
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Jenny Allen

Jenny Allen is a writer and monologist. Her essays and articles have appeared for years in many magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York, Vogue, Esquire, More, Huffington Post and Good Housekeeping. Recent essays appear in “Disquiet, Please!” a new anthology of humor pieces from The New Yorker, and in In The Fullness of Time: 32 Women on Life After 50 (Simon & Schuster). Her collection of essays is Would Everybody Please Stop? : Reflections on Life and Other Bad Ideas (Sarah Crichton Books at Farrar, Straus & Giroux).