Helping you meet new people and make new friends: comments from the 'Mature Times' (www.maturetimes.co.uk)

Healthy ageing means continually reinventing yourself as you pass through landmark ages such as 50, 60, 70, 80 and beyond. It means finding new things you can enjoy, learning to adapt to change, staying physically and socially active, and feeling connected to your community and loved ones.

Lots of us in our 50s and 60s are finding that, for whatever reason, our relationships change as we get older. 

For some of us we may find that we are single again, which may be through bereavement, or more frequently now, divorce, as the divorce rate among the over-60s has increased significantly in recent years compared to all other age groups.  Many of us move to new areas to find more suitable property.

The latest in the Mature Guide series from Mature Times is a designed to help with relationships, love and sex is supported by Relate, the relationship people and written with Barbara Bloomfield, who is a Relate couples counsellor with 14 years of experience in the counselling field.

The guide is designed to help you nurture and develop existing relationships, or help you find new ones: whether that is a new partner, or new friends and companions to become part of your life as you get older.

This guide will:

•  Help you to find and make new friends
• Show you how to make improvements to your relationships
• Invite those who are single to plan a future relationship
• Help those who feel nervous or lacking in self confidence
• Give practical, down to earth and humorous advice about sex, love and those bumpy bits of our relationships

Coping with change is difficult, no matter how old you are. The particular challenge for adults over 50 is the sheer number of transitions that start to occur—including children moving away, the loss of parents, friends, and other loved ones, changes to or the end of your career, declining health, and even loss of independence.

To order your Guide

You can order your copy by either sending a cheque payable to Mature Times for £9.95 to Mature Times Guides, Highwood House, Winters Lane, Redhill, Bristol, BS40 5SH.

If you would prefer to pay by either debit or credit card please call 01934 864410 during normal office hours and we will take your order details.