There are lots of perspectives on aging. Lots of articles and books and Websites, TV shows and radio shows. Each “expert” provides a perspective on the process known as “aging.” Seemingly, each has the answers to the questions about aging. About what will apply to those of us approaching the definition of one population identified in the Aging and Disability Resource Center program: persons age 60 and over.
“The U.S. government has its version of ‘older.’ According to the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act, an individual becomes an older worker beginning at age 40 — the age when employees and job applicants are protected from employment discrimination based on their age. The Social Security Administration would designate an “older American” at 62 — the age to collect early benefits. AARP would identify 50, which is the minimum age for AARP membership, and the organization will find you wherever you are to extend the invitation.” - SOURCE: The Los Angeles Times
Old Woman Dozing by Nicolaes Maes (1656). Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels (SOURCE: WikiPedia)
Wikipedia shares “literature regarding old age includ(ing) perceptions of old age from a middle-age perspective, from an old-age perspective, from society’s perspective, and from a simulated perspective.”
- “Ageing gracefully: how women steer the line between inauthentic and old” - The Conversation
- “50+: Live better, longer” - WebMD
- Mt. Gretna author’s new book: Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever (or Die Trying) - LNP - Always Lancaster
- Susan Jacoby’s Never Say Die “unmasks the fallacies promoted by twenty-first-century hucksters of longevity—including health gurus claiming that boomers can stay ‘forever young’ if they only live right, self-promoting biomedical businessmen predicting that ninety may soon become the new fifty and that a ‘cure’ for the ‘disease’ of aging is just around the corner, and wishful thinkers asserting that older means wiser.”
- And here’s a perspective on midlife - “the time stretching from 30 to 70 years of age, with ages 40 to 60 as the core.” - The Washington Post
