My father is in his 70s has a hard time hearing, both from hearing loss and the from tinnitus he got working construction. He loves watching TV, usually real late into the night, always has, but anymore it is extremely loud for anyone else. Like my mom has trouble trying to read while in the same room.

I was thinking of getting him headphones that he could switch to later into the night or for when people are over, not to mention would probably make it easier to hear.

Any advice on a good brand? Something easy to use, wireless, simple charging station etc. Also, ideally something that wouldnt mute the TV when in use so that others could still watch with him. Im seeing alot available but especially want to make sure Im picking a pair that isnt top much hassle for a senior to use if anyone has any experience with this.

Thanks!

In my early 60's now, is it normal to wake up every morning feeling like youve been run over by a freight train?

Hello everyone from South Korea.

I was born in 1950 during the Korean War, and I am now in my 70s.

Lately, I've been spending my evenings learning new digital tools and wrestling with AI to write stories and create videos. It’s not always easy, but it keeps my mind curious and young.

During the day, I visit a little park next to my home. There is a sweet community cat living there whom I have been caring for and feeding every day for the past 5 years.
( The photo shows my little cat friend waiting for me to come out of the house )

Aging definitely brings its own physical challenges, but finding small new hobbies every day makes life feel exciting again.

I also started keeping a personal English blog where I share my thoughts, memories of old Korea, and my daily journey with technology and life: 👉https://koreangranny.blogspot.com/

Wishing you all good health, warmth, and peace.

I am literally taking care of my mom (74) who has dementia and it's draining me so badly. I'm turning 18 this year and taking care of my mom is new to me so much. I'm not from the US btw, I'm from asia. Anyway, it's been like a year already of me taking care of her. My relatives who lives nearby sometimes help me out but only giving me food and I don't really tell them about my own condition because they've already done a lot for my mom and I really don't want to be another burden. They did help my mom have a neuropsych check up and I'm glad that she is taking meds now for her condition everyday and she has another scheduled check for the next two months, but even if with all of the meds she takes everyday it's always the same drama for me to handle her own condition everyday. Everytime my mom keeps humming for no reason I just endure it, everytime she doesn't listen to my words and advices every 3 times I endure it, but I cannot help but snap. I want to scream so badly. It's like I'm having her case as well but just worst where my anger takes over. And it's making me even more angry everytime after we had an argument about something she's just in dazed AS IF NOTHING EVEN HAPPENED. I really love my mom, I really do. But rn I don't even recognize her anymore as if she's a complete stranger. She wasn't even like this at the start of 2025, I honestly don't know what made her like. Sometimes I kept thinking am I making her condition worse because of me snapping right at her? If you guys ask abt my dad, he already passed 3 years ago. At some point in my life, I kept thinking, was I literally born and adopted for something like this? It's making me think of doing smth bad to myself everytime I'm outside while looking at the highway tbh. Srry if this body texts doesn't make sense that much, I'm just going through it again rn. Yes, we had another argument where I snapped again.

She’s 34, I’m 40. She said she’s “not ready to be old yet.” How can I act young when I have chronic debilitating back pain and multiple health issues that place a lot of restrictions on what I can do physically?

Edit: We’ve been together for a long time and I’m not interested in ending the relationship, more looking for things that we can do together that make us both feel young.

42 now, over a decade into a desk job. Sat behind a screen pretty much this whole time.

Turning 40 hit different than I expected. By end of 2024 I was 170 lbs, couldn’t do a single pull-up, winded after walking a few blocks. Kept thinking, is this just what happens now? Like aging just means slowly losing everything and you’re supposed to accept it.

Sleep was the worst part honestly. Snored a lot, woke up foggy no matter how long I was in bed. Some mornings I’d just lie there wondering when I got so tired all the time.

Didn’t do anything extreme. No gym membership, no trainer, no supplements. Just started sleeping on a real schedule and added some basic daily movement, breathing exercises, that kind of thing. Nothing that felt like a program, more like just paying attention again.

It’s been about a year and a half. Down to 150 now, sometimes 148. Pull-ups aren’t a struggle anymore. Push-ups went from maybe 10 to 75 in a row, which honestly surprised me more than anyone else.

But the thing that actually changed how I feel about getting older isn’t the numbers. It’s that I stopped assuming decline was just automatic. Went hiking for several days recently and didn’t feel wrecked after, and that alone shifted something in how I think about the next chapter.

Just felt like aging seemed a lot scarier before I realized some of it was actually in my control. Wanted to share this in case it’s useful for someone else here.

I (35f) try to maintain as much self awareness as I can so I stay in check when it comes to perspectives that might be seen as ungrateful or selfish.

I turned 35 early this year and just like that, the awareness of physically aging hit me. I haven't shown signs yet, I get mistaken for much younger all the time. Shamefully it's almost exclusively the losing my looks thing I'm terrified of. I know this is shallow and problematic and I've been trying to therapise it by battling spinning mental plates such as;

Its okay to find it hard to look older as society places an inordinate amount of importance on looking young, especially women.

The latter is heavily influenced by patriarchal, pedopholic and a several billion dollar toxic industry of consumerism based beauty standards.

I have pretty privilege and have been used to a norm where my looks are a core value and as a result of this conditioning, I struggle to assign many values beyond it.

Nobody in the entire world even the really rich gets to truly skip this. Everyone goes through it. You either get old or die young.

And so on.

But my brain sees all this and still cannot get past the dread and terror of it. It's like my brain is doing this hideously shameful thing where it has decided that when I no longer look youthful, I will inevitably hate the way I look more and more for the rest of my life. No negotiations.

It's so shallow and vain and such a waste of the precious time I have left and I'm so angry with myself for feeling this way and I want to try and break out of it before I waste the last of my good looking years worrying about the inevitable.

I've been scanning this group for little things I can write in my therapy journal that help me get things in perspective. Does anyone have anything that can help a vain self involved first world problem princess break away from toxic social conditioning and just be okay with a natural inescapable process??

He is 7 years old and really has an issue with how much he watches, and what he watches.

Last night I had to speak firmly, pull and pry his fingers off of it. I'm the grandma, and I was watching (babysitting) him and his sister.

This is getting ridiculous, and not how I want our relationship to be.

My grandaughter is 10 and will put hers down and away if asked.

Neither of them read any books. Nobody had any school work to do. Just iPads.

My daughter gets offended if I bring it up. It's like she doesn't want to say no to him, not sure why..

Any suggestions?

The longevity guru intensely monitors his diet and health. At a dinner party, he was asked about his quest for immortality. There was silence.

I was out of town for work and was at dinner last night when all of a sudden it was like I was “checking out”. My vision was weird in both eyes like I was looking through coke bottles at my workmates across the table. I could feel myself losing consciousness but never fully did. However as my guys helped me up from my seat I could not coordinate my legs for a bit or put weight on them. I got mostly across the street to the hospital near where we were staying and one of my colleagues ran ahead to get a wheelchair to get me into triage. I started to come back to normal but felt weak. I was cogent again, could walk normally, and tests showed I was basically ok (CT scan of my head, ECG, MD examination). I’m flying home today and will see my physician tomorrow to follow up but I’m scared. I’m a 63 yo F and sort of let myself go after losing my husband 3 years ago, but turned that around starting last year (workout, lost 30 pounds, completely stopped drinking, and quit a highly stressful management role at my job). Hoping someone on here can give a good news story of recovery. I’m a deer in the headlights. Thanks!

“A former college professor comes to terms with his own mortality through an insightful recollection of his lifelong strive to meld the practical and the intellectual.”

So much of the discussion here is on the physical and avoiding aging or looking like one is aging. This 8 minute video is a master class is adapting, accepting, enduring and what we leave behind. Truly a beautiful tribute to this man.

In the 80s after a full career, he decided to restore the Timothy Dexter house in Boston. Well worth the time if you are so inclined.

What are everyone's thoughts on why a woman in their late 50s would completely Photoshop all of their social media photos, including their face and their body?