What role do friendships and social support play in late adulthood?
What role do friendships and social support play in late adulthood? What
challenges to maintaining friendships are unique to people in late adulthood?
Friends Can Boost Health, Well-Being Among Older Adults
In a new study older participants identified friendships as reliably strong predictors of how happy and healthy they felt. As we get older our friends begin to have a bigger impact on our health and well-being, even more so than family, according to a new study.

