Tag: aging
After his wife of 36 years died from cancer, Dick St. Lawrence experienced something new: loneliness. “Worst feeling in the world,” St. Lawrence, 81, said about Linda St. Lawrence’s death in the winter of 2014. Like many widows and widowers before him, he had to build a new life for himself, despite having the comfort…
Abstract While declines in physical and mental performance are inevitable as workers age, they are not uniform across the various systems of the body – some physical and cognitive abilities decline much earlier than others. This variance implies that workers in occupations that rely on skills that decline early may be unable to work unt…
