I had my hearing aid fixed today so that I could properly hear you. I can't see as well. I now have - this has stopped me from smoking - a pacemaker, have for about the last 15 years. No, I don't like getting old.
Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.
In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.
Today it has been estimated that the average 70 year old has four chronic conditions and consumes an average of 35 PBS scripts per year for those conditions.
In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
[Anti-aging therapies will] never be perfect, but we'll be able to fix the things that 200-year-olds die of before we have any 200-year-olds, and the same for 300 and 400 and so on.
I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight.
My health is good; it's my age that's bad.
Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.
I've got a little arthritis that I have to deal with. I was 6 feet 7 when I started, and I've shrunk up a little bit. I'm probably 6-5 or so now. But up here at 82, I feel pretty good. I'm sticking in there.
Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
As we walked through the National Museum of African American History and Culture, I pushed my grandfather in a wheelchair he had reluctantly agreed to sit in. He is a proud man who also knows that his knees aren't what they once were - that years of high school and college football had long accelerated the deterioration of his aging joints.
To be 64 is appalling, so what does it matter being 65?
People talk philosophically, Oh, I don't want to live past 100.' You know, I'd like to hear them say that when they're 99.
Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts they most need.
I like old people falling over, that's what makes me laugh.
In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise.
A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis.
People don't die of old age, they die of diseases that accompany old age, and they are preventable.
Age is suspicious but is not itself often suspected.
I got a gerontology certificate a million years ago along with my law degree, so I've been interested in older people for many years. Some people grow up with a lot of kids around, but I just grew up with a lot of old people.
From the age of 40, I went through illness for four and a half years. I tried to keep working through it as much as I could, but I was physically not able to do it as much, and if you look sick, it's hard to get a job.
