Joseph CascianiGeropsychologist, Consultant, Public Speaking, Freelance · Podcast Host of the Living to 100 Club | Clinical Strategies for Senior Residential Settings & Lifestyle Directors | Geropsychologist | Keynote Speaker

Finding a New Relationship as an Antidote to Loneliness with Dr. Gloria Horsley & Dr. Frank Powers

28 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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Dr. Gloria Horsley and Dr. Frank Powers discuss how new relationships combat loneliness in later life. Women typically become widowed between 57 and 59, yet many older adults remain healthy enough for shared activities and passion. Societal expectations once discouraged women over 60 from remarrying.

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when Frank and I get together with people, they want to get into relationship. When they see us, it's much more profound than my saying by myself, saying, oh, well, you know, it's great. You know, you really might want to think about being— Yeah, you should wait. I mean, it's almost like seeing is believing. I mean, it's like, it's great if that's what you want. If you want to go through, you know, and when I was a kid, nobody expected a woman to get married. And they were 60. I mean, you just didn't expect— I didn't expect my grandmother. My grandfather died at 55. Did I expect her to get married? Heaven's no. Now people are living in, you know, into their 70s and 80s and very healthy.
It's not that they're not— they're living, but they're not infirm. They can have a relationship and they can enjoy doing things together.
They can have passion and purpose. Yeah. But, you know, this— I think this is a pretty startling statistic. The average woman will be widowed at 57 to 59.