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Pew Research Center -- A new study from this leading non-profit social dipstick says the older you get, the older you think "old" is.
New York Times -- The French are thinking of raising retirement age. From 60.
Peninsula Daily News -- That's the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state. This hometown newspaper covers a conference on creative aging. We'll follow up on this, too.
Miami Herald -- Will it shock you to know that people over 45 are getting facelifts to help them get a job?
SFGate -- Help is on the way, they say -- here's a contest for startup businesses designed to help aging Baby Boomers.
USA Today -- Another newspaper takes another swing at reporting what's happening with Baby Boomers and retirement. Not a pretty sight.
AP via GoogleNews -- The AMA digs in its heels against anti-aging hormones.
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Media Age
The new Celebrex TV commercial is a milestone in advertising audacity. What is claims: the risks that moved the American Heart Association to recommend it be used against arthritis pain only as a "last resort," these risks are probably worth it. It points out that all similar drugs carry the same FDA-mandated warnings. In other words, it says, we're no worse than any other risky drug. It seeks to create patient demand for a drug whose use only a licensed physician can authorize. You likely won't notice these facts, because its animation will mesmerize you.
LINKS:
Watch the commercial online.
Wikipedia on Celebrex.
— DN
Today's Pie-in-Face...
...goes to WebMD.com, Researcher Aron S. Buchman, MD and colleagues at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, for a publishing a well-meaning but depressing study of elder decline. Scientists may well need to document that old people who are social fare better than couch potatoes. Why, then, does the scientific study of decline and the publishing of it make me so mad? What do you think?-- DN
LinkAge
StayingVertical.com -- Ashton Applewhite is working on a book about people over 80 who work. This is her blog.
AgeWave.com -- Author Ken Dychtwald's company. A non-hackneyed information company focused on aging.
The New Old Age [at nytimes.com] -- This blog by America's best newspaper is the best journalism you can find on aging. Which isn't saying much. Still, when journalism is done right, it's unblinkingly truthful and reliable. If you're in denial, don't go there.
AgingDeliberately.com -- Liz Taylor, straight talker and leading authority on the care and feeding of old people and their families in crisis.
NPR's Planet Money -- One of the clearest sources of information on money and our tortured economy. Read, listen, learn.
NIH Senior Health site -- The U.S. government's encyclopedic health resource for people over 50. No ads.
DumbLittleMan.com - Here's a site created for all the right reasons. A fresh approach to positive thinking -- "Tips for Life." 3rdActs wants to be like DLM when it grows up.
What's this? This Website is about a new American Dream...that you can start a new quest, or continue your old one, after the age of 50, or 80.
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The Pew Research Center has published a survey of what age people define as "old." The short version: If you're under 30, 60 is old. If you're "middle-aged" (50?), you say it's 70. If you"re over 65, you're thinking maybe 75. Still, most people in the survey (79%) said old age begins at 85. Links: Pew Research. Coverage in USA Today. UPDATE: The New York Times covers the Pew report here and here. Does this check with you? Interesting. My questions: How do we decide when it's time to stop growing? What does "old" mean to you?
3rdActs Interview
Q. My mother is going into a retirement home and wants to give me several boxes of family photos that she's labeled. I have little interest in this stuff and my apartment is tiny. She is adamant that I save it all in case I have kids and they want it. She's even offered to pay for storage space! I think that would be a huge waste of her money and ultimately still a hassle for me. Help! -- Not nostalgic
Dear NN: Why not research the cost of having the photos scanned onto some nice, slim DVDs? Over time it's cheaper and safer than a storage area. As your mother can attest, you never know how future generations will feel about these things. It's a pretty good bet that any child of yours will love things genealogical and be royally miffed if you toss these archives. Life's like that.
--O!Connor
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