Il October 18 and celebrate the World Menopause Day, established byInternational Menopause Society (IMS) to properly inform all women around 50 (but also all other people, including men) and offer the right tools for the prevention and management of disturbances, including emotional ones, in this delicate phase of life. Here’s everything you need to know. To invite everyone, not just the fifties and not just women, a reinterpret menopause no longer as the end of femininity but as a moment of rebirth, a metamorphosis to be welcomed with positivity together with one new version of themselves.
Menopause: outdated stereotypes? Let’s work on it again, together
“Are you in Menopause? – Then you are old, ugly, withered, fat, undesirable sexually- “. This is the question that all women, at some point in life starting from 40 years, they feel addressed. And this is the afterthought that circulates in everyone’s mind – or almost. The first white hair is immediately associated with the loss of freshness, beauty and sex appeal. Yes, yes almost ashamed to say “I’m in menopause”, almost as if it were a coming out. Because even today it is like announcing that one’s femininity has been lost, along with reproductive capacity. Taboo, clichés, disinformation still throw a gray veil over women in their 50s.
Events, appointments and useful initiatives
On this day of 18 October 2020 there are many initiatives throughout Italy and also online to find competent help to manage disorders undeniably linked to menopause. But also useful for preventing them.
Menopause, the white paper
L’International Menopause Society he also published a white paper for specialists translated into several languages to increase knowledge of female sexual dysfunctionsili.
The Bollini Rosa hospitals
All over Italy the hospitals with Pink Stamps members of the project will open their doors to all women with consultations, interviews, instrumental exams, conferences, info points and distribution of information material, including a brochure that can be downloaded directly from the site bollinirosa.it. At this site there is also thelist of participating centers with indications on dates, times and methods of booking the services offered.
Then
This year, to limit the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, all interested women are invited to visit the site ondaosservatorio.it e free download the information brochure e a poster “Healthy menopause. From prevention to hormonal replacement “.
Vichy alongside women of all ages
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Menopause more beauty: the community of over 50s is getting stronger
Luisa and Laura Carlini, respectively doctor and cosmetologist, are the creators of the project Menopause more Beauty® which on social networks is reaching more and more women over 50. They have created a huge community that every day, punctually, meets to exchange advice, expert recommendations but also emotions.
«Menopause must be cleared of the concept of the end of female and social identity and accompany women in this new dimension where maturity is an added value. We need to help restore self-esteem, planning and serenity. Women must prepare to live a “golden age”»Explain Laura and Luisa Carlini.
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