Most people fundamentally misunderstand what happens if you live to be really, really old
"Ask a group of people who among them wants to live to 100, and many would say they would rather die younger, with their health and their mind still intact....
It turned out, Perls found, that the people who were living well past the average life expectancy were often doing so because of unusually good genes, which seemed to protect them at least for most of their golden years from many of the problems that plague others throughout their 70s and 80s...."
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-happen-when-someone-gets-old-2015-6
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Five Intriguing Facts About People Who Live To 100
"...Located in the Northeast or Midwest.
States with the largest populations generally have the most centenarians. California has the largest number of centenarians (5,921), followed by New York (4,605), Florida (4,090), and Texas (2,917). Alaska has the fewest residents age 100 and older (40). Wyoming (72), Vermont (133), and Delaware (146) are also among the states with the fewest centenarians..."
http://www.businessinsider.com/five-facts-about-people-who-live-to-100-2013-1
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What if Age Is Nothing but a Mind-Set?
"One day in the fall of 1981, eight men in their 70s stepped out of a van in front of a converted monastery in New Hampshire. They shuffled forward, a few of them arthritically stooped, a couple with canes. Then they passed through the door and entered a time warp. Perry Como crooned on a vintage radio. Ed Sullivan welcomed guests on a black-and-white TV. Everything inside including the books on the shelves and the magazines lying around were designed to conjure 1959. This was to be the mens home for five days as they participated in a radical experiment, cooked up by a young psychologist named Ellen Langer..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/magazine/what-if-age-is-nothing-but-a-mind-set.html?_r=1
A radical experiment tried to make old people young again and the results were astonishing
"..How many of aging's negative effects could be manipulated and even erased by a psychological intervention?
In a radical experiment in 1979 that was featured in a New York Times Magazine cover story last fall, Langer and her grad students decided to take this question as far as they possibly could.
The results were extraordinary, but the research was also so unorthodox, so small, and so lacking in rigor that interpreting exactly what those results mean requires caution...."
http://www.businessinsider.com/ellen-langers-reversing-aging-experiment-2015-4
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Seniors Attend Bonnaroo Music Festival For The First Time And 'Live To Tell About It' (with clip)
"...Denny, Isolde, Anne and Neil, all over 70, hit Nashville earlier this month to attend the famous festival and take in the entire experience. Though they could only describe it as "unusual," the folks were all good sports, trying everything from flash tattoos, selfies and even going on stage with one of the bands...."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/...-die_n_7654368.html?utm_hp_ref=fifty&ir=Fifty
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5 Ways Men And Women Age Differently
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/...l?ir=Healthy Living&ncid=newsltushpmg00000003
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