| Sensuous, intellectual woman, 5'3, adventurous, pretty and open, seeks a life partner who is highly intelligent and cheerful. How old is this woman? In her early 60s. That's the profile Mary Bellis Waller, now 64, posted on two Internet dating sites during her search for a companion. Waller was a pioneer of online dating among old people her age, and thousands of others aged 60 and older are also turning to the Internet to find romance.
Although in some areas old people still retain a high level of activity, e.g., in politics, generally old people retire at the end of their productive life period, which gives rise to the problems of psychological adaptation to the new situations. Firstly the old people problems arise due to the fall in the influence of elder people, the feeling of being ignored and the availability of a lot of free time. Moreover, for a large number of people the financial problems become critical, although in many cases society takes care of these problems.
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