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Making Friends in Retirement Communities: Finding Belonging When You’re the Newcomer | The Friendship Project
Making Friends in Retirement Communities: Finding Belonging When You’re the Newcomer. This episode explores the profound emotional landscape of entering senior living, assisted care, or retirement communities as a new resident. Host Kari Hearn addresses the specific anxieties of being the 'new person' at age fifty, sixty, or seventy, where previous identities tied to career and family no longer define daily social interactions. The narrative validates the feeling of isolation and invisibility that often accompanies this life transition, offering compassionate guidance on how to build genuine…
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