Neal Milner: Judge Seniors For What We Can Do, Not For What We Can't

Too many people only see the aging population as sick or incapacitated. That’s not the whole story.

It’s almost New Year’s, time to ring out the old and ring in the new. Except that famous phrase has it backwards.

Actually, we need to ring in the old because they’re the ones ringing in the new all the time.

Old folks are the real risk-takers, boundary-crossers and adventurers. It’s the young who are enfeebled.

Typically, people who aren’t old see seniors in terms of their infirmities and incapacities. The lame, the halt, and the blind.

That health-above-everything-else view is so one-dimensional. There is so much else to an older person’s life besides how well she walks, how clearly he sees, or how acute her hearing is.

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