You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get 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.
All I can say, in answer to this kind queries [of friends] is that I have not the distemper called the Plague; but that I have allthe plagues of old age, and of a shattered carcase.
Live to 97 and you can do anything.
Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.
Dementia is not exclusively a problem of the developed world.
It cracks me up to see these ads for TV - for Depends or for glue for your dentures. The people in them look 55 with a hint of gray. Where are the people who are falling apart? We don't see that.
Yeah, if anyone tries to tell you 60 is the new 40... don't believe them.
We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.
In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases.
It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all these knee and back operations.
I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.
No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.
I can feel middle age approaching, but I reckon the trick is to ignore all the signs. I'm lucky in that I've always looked half the age I am. So the way I see it is that I'm still in my twenties!
Medicines are only fit for old people.
People don't die of old age, they die of neglect.
The hope is that if we can increase youthfulness, we can postpone age-related diseases.
What we know about super old people who are thriving is that they don't become infirm, they don't get cancer, they don't get Alzheimer's.
Age is suspicious but is not itself often suspected.
We know we are entering a period of transformation in aged care.
Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.
Our concepts of aging really should be blurring because there are plenty of people who make it to older ages who aren't really any different in many ways than people who are decades younger.
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.
