The following resources include web sites, lists of organizations, and books that may be of interest to you. This is by no means an exhaustive list but rather suggestions to pique your curiosity. Listing these resources does not constitute an endorsement.

Exploring Aging Through the Written Word: Nonfiction and Poetry

Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

The Sun and Her Flowers – Rupi Kaur

Ten Poems to Change Your Life – Roger Housden (collection of poems and commentary)

Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age – Mary Pipher

Stitches: A Handbook of Meaning, Hope, and Repair – Anne Lamott

Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers – Anne Lamott

The Upgrade: How the Female Brain Gets Stronger and Better in Midlife and Beyond – Louann Brizendine

1000 Places Every Woman Should Go – Stephanie Elizondo Griest

A Room of One’s Own; Three Guineas – Virginia Woolf

Keep It Moving: Lessons for the Rest of Your Life – Twyla Tharp

Wanderers: A History of Women Walking – Kerri Andrews

Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives – Daniel J. Levitin

Breaking the Age Code: How Your Beliefs About Aging Determine How Long and How Well You Will Live – Becca Levy

Lots of Candles. Plenty of Cake – Anna Quindlen

The Inner Age of Work: Shifting from Role to Soul – Connie Zweig

Women Innovators – A Few Who Are Changing the Conversation on Women and Aging

Annie Gaudreault
VEEV Health and Wellness: The art and science of aging well
Annie empowers women to embrace healthy aging as their next performance era — strong, energized, and fully in charge of their well-being.

Debbie Harbec
Debbie Harbec Coaching: Live Fully in Midlife and Beyond – The Midlife Momentum Podcast
Coaching women in midlife, empowering them to take control of their bodies and lives, lose and maintain weight, get fit, feel confident, and amplify their energy.  

Helen Hirsh Spence
International Keynote Speaker; Longevity Literacy Strategist & Trainer;
Founder/CEO of Top Sixty Over Sixty and of the newsletter Age Sense on LinkedIn

Patricia Muir
Patricia Muir Executive Coaching, Executive Encore Podcast: Women Remastering Life and Work and Sunday Encore Newsletter.

Lisa Murphy
Lisa Murphy is a certified life coach [www.coachlisamurphy.com] who helps midlife women create more fulfillment and fun in their lives. Check out her inspiring 50ForwardClub Instagram feed, as well!

Sarah Kent
Wild Soul Coach and creator of the Dreamworks Project. https://www.sarahlkent.com/thedreamworksproject . This is where the vision of the project is described, as well as how to book an interview and find the published dreams. See substack A Field of Dreams:  https://sarahlkent.substack.com/ 

Ashton Applewhite
Her work centres on ageism and how to address it. She is the author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism and a  co-founder of the Old School Hub, a grassroots organization that raises awareness about ageism.

Expanding Knowledge on Aging – Reports and Websites

Women’s Age Lab
Through its research and publications (including Women at the Forefront of Aging 2024 Report), the Women’s Age Lab aims to address the challenges older women face and the needed changes to improve their lives.

Women’s Brain Health Initiative
Aims to improve and protect women’s brain health through educational initiative and funding of research.

Age Well
A Canadian technology and aging network supporting technology-based solutions for better quality of life.

World Health Organization – Aging and Health
The UN has declared 2021-2030 as the Decade of Healthy Ageing. WHO also released the World Report on Aging and Health in 2015.

Sage-ing International
An organization devoted to building community to supporting new ways of aging and celebrate the wisdom of later life.

Vital Aging Network
A grassroots organization that supports aging with gusto and wellbeing.

 McMaster Optimal Aging Portal
McMaster University provides information and research updates aging and wellness.

NORC  Innovation Centre (Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities)
Supports aging in place communities and different models of care to support older adults in being healthy and  active through a community development approach.