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THE PEAKS AND VALLEYS IN THE JOURNEY (AND DOWN)

Faith in Fashion: 82-year-old La Verne Ford Wimberly of Tulsa, Okla., goes viral after posting her colour-co-ordinated Sunday best on Facebook – wearing a different outfit for virtual services every week for a year – raising spirits and the bar on church-lady “lewks.”

This face book deserves a like: Actress Justine Bateman, 55, publishes Face: One Square Foot of Skin, a book of creative non-fiction that challenges negative perceptions about aging female faces.

Highclere Holidays: Downton Abbey 2, the sequel to the hit 2019 film, is due out Dec. 22, so have a holly Crawley Christmas.

Another reason to catch some zzz: A study shows that sleeping less than five hours a night could double the risk of dementia in older people.

In Italy, a 67-year-old man earned the moniker “King of Absentees” after collecting a full salary while failing to show up for work for 15 years: “Hey,” say gen-Xers, “we’re the slackers!”