{"id":522,"date":"2009-02-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karenturnerphd.com\/baby-boomer-women-and-the-onset-of-menopause\/"},"modified":"2017-10-24T13:24:22","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T17:24:22","slug":"baby-boomer-women-and-the-onset-of-menopause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karenturnerphd.com\/baby-boomer-women-and-the-onset-of-menopause\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boomer Women and the Onset of Menopause"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Baby Boomer Women Kicking Elderly Problems of Menopause<\/p><\/div>\n

Elderly Problems<\/strong>: By Boomeryearbook.com<\/p>\n

We all know what menopause means biologically or technically; it\u2019s when a woman\u2019s monthly menstrual cycles have stopped; officially for one year. Menopause usually occurs between the ages of 45-55, leaving most women with many decades of life to live without pre-menopausal hormonal estrogen. While that may somehow be comforting, menopause is just as life changing as puberty in the sense that a woman\u2019s hormones are fluctuating and ushering in a new stage of life. That\u2019s also a problem as many women are scared of what the future may hold and filled with anxiety and misconceptions. There are more women over 50 (baby boomer women<\/strong>) in the world today than during any other time in history; and are apprehensive about elderly problems including menopause.<\/p>\n

The majority of Baby boomer women<\/strong> are well into their menopause and many have \u2018seen the other side\u2019 by now. Many struggle with the elderly problems<\/strong> of asexuality. Frankly speaking, old isn\u2019t usually equated with sexy or sex appeal, unless you are discussing aged wine and not aging women. While many baby boomer women<\/strong> may be economically empowered and self assured, when they hit menopause it\u2019s as if we lose our previous confidence, or go into overdrive to compensate for the hormonal \u2018losses\u2019. What baby boomer women<\/strong> should recognize is that we are experiencing a change, and not to think of menopause as a loss.<\/p>\n

I think boomers are especially worried about the elderly problems<\/strong> of menopause because we\u2019ve lived a life of freedom, and our sheer numbers have dictated that society keeps up with our demands, not the other way around. This is especially true of our demand for sexual freedom, and may have implications in our strong negative reaction to menopause, as baby boomer women<\/strong> might be worried because menopause means that they\u2019re now different, now aging, no longer in \u201csexual prime.\u201d And let\u2019s never forget the role of the media and the part that \u201cimage\u201d plays in how we deal with aging. If women dutifully abandon a sexy or youthful image and then bemoan society\u2019s wrong conception, it is our fault that we have bought into the propaganda. Childbearing powers shouldn\u2019t be linked to sexuality. Many of us baby boomer women<\/strong>look and feel quite sexy <\/p>\n

For baby boomer women<\/strong> let me offer this post menopausal advice; don\u2019t think that life as you know it will just shift towards say, your grandchildren. I\u2019ve been through menopause, and I grant you, it wasn\u2019t a picnic. I was cranky, had trouble sleeping and felt very insecure. But I realized that my \u2018instability\u2019 was my body readjusting itself and tried to wrap my mind around getting through the symptoms and looking forward to the change. What happens to baby boomer women<\/strong> after 50? We have alternatives. We can get unnecessarily preoccupied with our loss of youth and get depressed, or we can launch into this new phase of life availing ourselves or all resources. For goodness sake ladies, we haven\u2019t expired and no we won\u2019t become invisible unless we let it happen. Let\u2019s just band together in sisterhood and shed stereotypes about our sexuality that are entrapped in old opinions. <\/p>\n

It will do us a world of good if we baby boomer women<\/strong> are concerned with our wellness, financial security and getting the best out of our booming postmenopausal senior years.
\nI for one took up Zumba, (Latin Cardio Fusion) and feel better than I have in 20 years.
\nI hope other baby boomer women <\/strong>will write me at Boomer Yearbook and let me know what worked for them.<\/p>\n

At Boomer Yearbook<\/a> you can share your thoughts, upload pictures and find old friends, or use our online optical illusions and brain games, provided by clinical psychologist Dr. Karen Turner, to expand your mind and help ward off the possibility of depression, dementia and Alzheimer’s. Join now to discover the numerous ways in which this online social networking site for the baby boomers and boomers of all ages can contribute to optimal physical and emotional wellness. The baby boomers generation changed the world. We are not done yet!<\/p>\n

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Elderly Problems: By Boomeryearbook.com We all know what menopause means biologically or technically; it\u2019s when a woman\u2019s monthly menstrual cycles have stopped; officially for one year. Menopause usually occurs between the ages of 45-55, leaving most women with many decades of life to live without…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,30],"tags":[458,448,83,241,459],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karenturnerphd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karenturnerphd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karenturnerphd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karenturnerphd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karenturnerphd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karenturnerphd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karenturnerphd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karenturnerphd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karenturnerphd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}