Relationship rules change as kids grow up and parents age. Responsibility falls to adult children to reach out to their siblings and to parents. “For so much of life, parents learn how to let go of their children. At some point the children need to reach back out to their parents,” to check their well-being, reassure and just talk, said Joyce Gallagher, commissioner of the city’s Department on Aging. “One of the greatest things I learned, and it was through personal experience later in life — my dad had a problem with memory — was not to correct. It wasn’t important to try to get the date right or circumstance. It was important to just listen. [By] breaking into the conversation, you ruin the connection.

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About three-fourths of middle-aged and older women are sexually active and two-thirds of them are at least somewhat satisfied, according to a new study. Black women are more satisfied with their sex lives than their white counterparts.

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If there’s one statement that can rile up Dr. Gwendolyn Goldsby Grant, it’s that. The nationally-known psychologist and Essence magazine columnist hears it frequently on national computer dating service advertisements, and confesses she can barely contain herself.
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