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!er" "oung man,# wrote rnest $emingwa", %belie!es he will li!e fore!er.# A the same could be said for e!er" "oung woman. ut whate!er our beliefs and thoughts about life, there remains an undeniable and e!er-present e!er-present fact: 'e ar each and e!er" one of us, growing older. older.
(his is true in e!er" countr" and among e!er" people throughout the world, b the wa" di)erent cultures ha!e responded to this realit" has !aried widel". widel".
*or man" of us in the industrialized world toda", our aging is a source of grief and an+iet". an+iet". 'e fear aging. (he elderl" people we see are for the most part increasingl" senile, frail, and unhapp". unhapp". As a result, rather than looking forward growing old, we dread each passing birthda". birthda". ather than seeing our later "ea as a time of har!esting, growth, and maturit", we fear that the deterioration o our health will so greatl" impair our li!es that to li!e a long life might be more a curse than a blessing.
'hen we think of being old, our images are often ones of decrepitude and despair. despair. t seems more realistic to imagine oursel!es languishing in nursing homes than to picture oursel!es swimming, gardening, laughing with lo!ed on and delighting in children and nature.
n 0, the famed American author $unter 1. (hompson took his life. $e wa onl" si+t"-se!en, and had no incurable disease. $e was wealth" and famous, a his thirt"-two-"ear-old thirt"-two-"ear-old wife lo!ed him. ut according to the literar" literar " e+ecutor o (hompson2s will, %he made a conscious conscious decision that he3wasn2t going to su) the indignities of old age.#4
t doesn2t help to li!e in a societ" where there is so little respect for the elder (ele!ision (ele!ision shows and mo!ies fre5uentl" fre5uentl" portra" older people as feeble, unproducti!e, grump", and stubborn. Ad!ertisements selling e!er"thing from alcohol to cars feature beautiful "oung people, gi!ing the impression that olde people are irrele!ant. 6ollo5uialisms such as %geezer,# %old foge",# %old maid %dirt" old man,# and %old goat# demean the elderl" and perpetuate a stereot" of older people as unworth" of consideration or positi!e regard. Sign up to vote on this title
7reeting card companies routinel" sell birthda"cards the mobilit" Usefulthat Not useful mock intellect, and se+ dri!e of the no longer "oung. 8o!elt" companies sell %9!er $ill# products such as ftieth-birthda" con gift bo+es containing prune ;uice
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n the stud", a large number of middle-aged people were inter!iewed si+ time o!er the course of twent" "ears and asked whether the" agreed with such statements as %As %As "ou get older, "ou are less useful.# emarkabl", the perceptions held b" people about aging pro!ed to ha!e more impact on how l the" would li!e than did their blood pressure, their cholesterol le!el, whether the" smoked, or whether the" e+ercised. (hose people who had positi!e perceptions of aging li!ed an a!erage of B.0 "ears longer than those with negati!e images of growing older. older.
8egati!e images not onl" lead to compromised health and shortened li!esCt also are distressing in the present. Dr. Dr. e!"2s stud" found that people with negati!e perceptions of aging were more likel" to consider their li!es worthles empt", and hopeless, while those with more mo re positi!e perceptions of aging wer more likel" to !iew their li!es as fullling and hopeful.
'hen we are disrespectful to older people and make them in!isible, we attem to ignore the aging process we are e+periencing. 'e hide its signs and look aw from the longer-term conse5uences of our lifest"les. As a result, we make lifest"le choices that ma" make sense in the short term but take a hea!" toll i the end.
asked a friend recentl" how he thought he might age. %2ll probabl" end up nursing home somewhere,# he replied with some bitterness, %with a feeding t in m" nose, staring at the acoustic s5uares in the ceiling, incontinent, impoten and impo!erished.# 1adl", such !iews are not unusual. 2!e seen bumper stick that sa" %A!enge @ourself: i!e ong nough to ecome a urden to @our 6hildren.# 'hen "ou distrust the aging process, it2s hard to imagine "ourself en;o"ing "our older "ears, doing things like dancing, ;ogging, or hiking. t can dicult e!en to consider the possibilit" that "ou might, during e!er" phase of "our lifetime, ha!e the capacit" for growth, change, and creati!it". creati!it".
n the last hundred "ears we2!e added nearl" thirt" "ears to the a!erage life e+pectanc" in the industrialized world, but for man" m an" older adults the later "ea are not a time of happiness and well-being. A centur" ago, the a!erage adult 'estern nations spent onl" 4 percent of his or her life in a morbid or illstate, to vote onof thishis titleor her life toda"2s a!erage modern adult spends more thanSign 4up percent Not useful longer, too sick. ?eople are li!ing longer toda", but all too often the" are d"ing Useful of chronic diseases that cause debilit" and cogniti!e impairment. i mpairment.
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As our older people are getting less and less well, their numbers are growing, and this process is about to shift into h"perdri!e. As author Fen D"chtwald ha described in his seminal book Age ?ower, there are at this !er" moment appro+imatel" eight" million bab" boomers in the nited 1tates barreling tow old age.G <(he term %bab" boomer# generall" refers to people born between 4HI0 and 4HJ.> n 4H, there were onl" G million people in the nited 1tate who were si+t"-!e or older. older. " , the number had leaped to GG million. A centur" ago in the nited 1tates, the odds of li!ing to the age of 4 were les than one in !e hundred. 8ow the 6ensus ureau e+pects that one i n twent"bab" boomers will reach that age. (oda", the likelihood l ikelihood that a twent"-"ear-old twent"-"ear-old American will ha!e a li!ing grandmother
is higher than the likelihood that a twent"-"ear-old twent"-"ear-old in 4H had a li!ing mother .I (h ad!ancing age wa!e is the most signicant demographic e!ent of our lifetime and it is taking place in e!er" industrialized nation in the world. About half of people who ha!e e!er li!ed past the age of si+t"!e are ali!e toda". toda". n 6hile, 6osta ica, Ee+ico, and =enezuela, =enezuela, the percentage of elderl" elderl " persons in the population is pro;ected to double between and 0.0 6hina is e+pected be home to GG million oldsters b" midcentur". midcentur". (hat2s more elderl" people in single countr" than inhabited the entire planet as recentl" as 4HH.J B/HIJ According to the nited 8ation2s ?opulation Di!ision, roughl" 4 percent of th world2s J.I billion people are toda" o!er si+t". si+t". " 0, percent of the planet2s 4 billion human beings will be o!er si+t". si+t". " then there will be nearl" ne arl" billion people in the world si+t" "ears of age and older. older. (his is a number rough e5ual to one-third of the entire current global human population. (his increase longe!it" would be a blessing if it were accompanied b" increased health and wisdom, but sadl" it often is not. 6lose to half of all Americans o!er the age o eight"-!e ha!e Alzheimer2s disease. (he toll taken b" Alzheimer2s and other chronic diseases on the old is increasing so much toda" that the a!erage twen rst-centur" American will likel" spend more "ears caring for parents than for children. " I, it is estimated that 0.0 million AmericansCmore than the entire current population of DenmarkCwill li!e in nursing K/HIJ homes. Anot 4 millionCe5ual to the combined populations ofSign srael, 1ingapore, up to vote on this title and 8ew LealandCwill re5uire ongoing homecare ser!ices. Ean" will spend usefultheir nal Useful Not decades struggling with loneliness and depression. Although modern medicine eminentl" e5uipped to prolong life, it seems to be far less able to promote
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warrior is reduced to a wretched collection of painful, foul, and broken bonesC but he continues to li!e fore!er. fore!er. ike (ithonus, e!er more of us are li!ing longe but our added "ears are too often "ears of su)ering and disabilit". disabilit".
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