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Aging vs. Growing Old: It Doesn’t Depend on the Calendar

Lifetime Achievement Award winner Betty White is in the news again. It seems she is following the advice for staying young we gave you earlier this week: cultivate humor in your daily life; hang out with your peers; find the time to interact with younger friends too. This time, she has jumped into the fray of those making predictions about the future of NBA basketball star LeBron James. White has joined with her adopted city of Cleveland, hoping to entice LeBron to stay with the Cavaliers for another season. As … Continue reading

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Aging vs. Growing Old: Betty White as a Role Model

A real standout this summer on TV – amidst all the youthful faces or wanna’ be’s botoxed, lifted, heavily made-up ones – has been Betty White on the new sitcom Hot in Cleveland. As Betty said in a recent episode, “I had to wait until I was 88 to learn I had game.” Paired with blind date Carl Reiner, also 88, the two personified the goal of aging without growing old. How does she do it? With the population of older adults growing, the percentage of adults over 65 is … Continue reading

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