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Finding Your Circle of Seniors
As adults get older, the opportunity to make new friends tends to become increasingly more difficult. Afterall, devoting years to their careers or establishing a family can force many adults to put their friendships on the backburner. By the time they are ready to forge new friendships, they often forget how. Fortunately, there are several ways to help seniors navigate the social awkwardness of building a new circle of friends.
yourself in close proximity to other people. Therefore, if you eat in a communal dining area during your mealtimes, don’t sit by yourself. Before you sit down, look around If you are an older the room. If there is an adult transitioning into an assisted living open seat near someone, consider asking community, here are if you can sit there some tips on how to and spark up a confind senior friends. versation over dinner. You may quickly find Revisit Past Friend-Building Tac- yourself with a new permanent dining tics A great way to expand partner. your circle of friends is to think about how Join a Club to Find Senior Friends you made friends One of the easiest in the past. In truth, many of the methods ways to make new friends is to find a you previously used group of people who will likely help you make friends now. For appreciate an activity you like. For example, example, introducif you enjoy knitting, ing yourself to your neighbors when mov- try to find out if your ing to a new place is a senior living commucustomary and polite nity has a knitting first step. When mov- club or recommend starting one. By doing ing into a senior living community, don’t this, you will not only be afraid to make the be giving yourself the opportunity to talk to rounds and get to know your fellow res- new people, but you will also already have idents. one conversation topic Start a Conversation to work off of. Furthermore, the best part With a Stranger Finding senior friends is that you will likely come to find that you is all about putting have more in common
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