Starting From Scratch: How Senior Men Can Build New Friendships That Last

 Making friends as an older man is genuinely harder than it was at 25 — there’s no campus, no team, no office to serve as the social infrastructure that once made connection automatic. But the need for friendship doesn’t diminish with age; if anything, research shows it becomes more critical to health and longevity. In this episode, we tackle the practical challenge of forging new friendships in your senior years: where to look, how to take the first step, how to move past the surface-level acquaintance stage, and how to build the kind of friendships that actually sustain you.