“Betty White once said, “I may be a senior, but so what? I’m still hot.” While the witty one-liner brings laughs, the famous nonagenarian, made it over 99 years old before dying, perfectly sums up an attitude being adopted by more and more women approaching the once dreaded “senior citizen” stage of life.

Healthier living through more active lifestyles, better nutrition and a more in-depth understanding of how our bodies work and age has extended the average lifespan, bringing a new definition to what it means to be “senior.” Working in concert with this new definition, is a more open dialogue about health in later years – and not just in terms of cholesterol, heart disease and diabetes, but also sexuality.”

Penn Medicine (www.PennMedicine.org/The New Midlife: Why 60 is the New 40 – Penn Medicine)