Age-Related Disability Quotes

I think the problems with being older come when your body cannot do what your mind wants. Then, Houston, we have a problem.

There's no such thing as ageing gracefully. I don't meet people who want to get Alzheimer's disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that.

How young can you die of old age?

One of the worst things about ageing is the waning of your physical powers. I live in a house with 64 stairs, and I cannot run up and down them any more; my knee has conked out.

The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy for a longer time period. So lifespan extension in and of itself should not be the goal of medicine, nor should it be the goal of public health, nor should it be the goal of aging science.

The way that we are going after ageing, I think, is a problem. The modern medical model is basically designed to attack one disease at a time. Independent of all other diseases and independent of the basic process of ageing itself.

Aging is just like any deterioration of the body. It fulfills every category of what we call a disease except one: it impacts more than half the population.

The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected.

In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid.

We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some more slowly.