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...going to be a tough meet," McDougall said. "If we are going to win, we are going to have to do everything right and we can't make any mistakes...
...measuring the link between health and social support, they are distinct and separate in real life. The chief difference? "You choose your friends, but you're stuck with your family" is how an adolescent might put it. That's good news and bad news for friendship. "Friends don't make the demands that family members do. Friends generally won't be asked to give money or nursing care," says sociologist Jan Yager, author of Friendshifts. "They are probably going to mainly have fun together." On the other hand, she notes, "because it's optional, friendship can be withdrawn more easily...
...longer life expectancy and tend to marry men older than themselves. Indeed, among people 85 and older, women outnumber men 5 to 2. For Anne Anderson, 72, a single, childless New Yorker, friends fill in for the family she lacks. "Friends help you through the bad times and make good times better," she says...
Prevention is the best medicine for loneliness. "Make sure you grow old surrounded by people who know you and care about you--and that you care about," says Carstensen. That means actively maintaining friendships by frequent contact throughout life...
...seven to 10 retired adults and places them in elementary schools to provide classroom support to teachers in everything from reading and math to violence prevention. The team approach gives schools a critical mass of input from the volunteers. It also gives the volunteers something priceless: a chance to make friends with other older people engaged in the same worthwhile task. The Baltimore, Md., chapter, now in its second year in six schools, is monitoring the educational benefits for students and the mental, physical and social effects on the volunteers. Reading scores have gone up at participating schools, and retention...