Conscious aging is an offshoot of the 1987 model of successful aging, which was defined as an elderly person moving through the last chapter of life without disease and disability. Aging can be a challenge, especially when one lives with depression, but it’s also a time of great opportunity. The approach of conscious aging invites such possibility by encouraging you to find answers, significance, and enlightenment from within while also tending to your depressive symptoms.

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