Older adults
Friendship in your seventies is real and valuable — but it requires a different approach than the friendships of earlier decades. Understanding how and why connection changes in this decade can make it easier to find and keep.
Many people in their seventies describe their surviving friendships as among the most honest and meaningful of their lives. Freed from the competitive pressures of career, the distractions of busy family life, and the need to maintain a social image, people in this decade often relate to each other with a directness and warmth that was harder to access when they were younger.
The challenge is that the circumstances that make friendship harder — less mobility, retirement from work, the death of old friends — are intensifying at the same time that the capacity for deeper connection is growing. The opportunity exists; the infrastructure has changed.
One of the most important things people in their seventies can do for their social lives is stay open to new connection — even when it feels unfamiliar. New friends do not have to replace old ones. They are their own thing, built on what you are now rather than what you were.
Starting with lower-stakes, more flexible forms of connection — a phone call, a voice app, a community group that meets informally — can be a good way to practise openness without the vulnerability of committing to a formal friendship from the start.
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