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Saturday 20th of April 2024

Aging Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine. Joan Collins © 2023 Kwiple.com
Aging All but two were older than he, and though they assembled each week in a mood of comradely good cheer, the conversation invariably turned to matters of sickness and health, their personal biographies having by this time become identical with their medical biographies … At his studio, they more readily identified one another by their ailments than by thier painting. “How is your sugar?” “How is your pressure?” “What did the doctor say?” “Did you hear about my neighbor? It spread to the liver.” Philip Roth, Everyman  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Aging Arresting data point: in Japan, adult diapers now outsell baby diapers. Bill McKibben, New York Review of Books, October 6, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Aging As populations age, there are more and more people living alone with their television sets. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, January 20-21, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Aging The hollow horn plays wasted words Proves to warn That he not busy being born Is busy dying Bob Dylan, “It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)” © 2016 Kwiple.com
Aging The hollow horn plays wasted words Proves to warn That he not busy being born Is busy dying Bob Dylan, “It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)” © 2016 Kwiple.com
Aging Higher voting rates by older people make the ballot box a “time machine”: it reflects the US of a decade ago. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, February 27, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Aging I hope to die before I get old. Pete Townshend, in “My Generation”  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Aging I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. Joan Didion, “On Keeping a Notebook” © 2017 Kwiple.com
Aging In 2014 the US elected the oldest Congress in its history. The record did not last long: It was broken in 2016. And then again in 2018. And yet again in 2020, when — remarkably — the majority of the incumbents who lost their seats were replaced by someone even older. In the 2022 midterms, the House did become  slightly younger (the mean age of representa- tives dropped by a year, from fifty-nine to fifty-eight), but the mean age of senators continued to rise and is now over sixty-five. … The presidency is following the same trend. Fintan O'Toole, NY Rev. of Books, Jan. 18, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Aging In 2020 the share of people 65 or older reached  17 percent, according to the Census Bureau. By 2034, there will be more Americans past retirement age than there are children. … By 2053,  more than 40 percent of the federal budget will go toward programs for seniors, primarily Social Security and Medicare  — but those programs are not designed for or prepared to handle the new demographic reality. New York Times, October 6, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Aging It’s also true, of course, that younger politicians can suffer debilitating illnesses. … True, too, that older people with access to good health care can now lead productive public lives well past the ages at which their political forebears would have died or become incapable. But in other democracies where healthy  life spans are just as long as those in the US, the governing class is nonetheless much younger. Fintan O'Toole, New York Review of Books, January 18, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Aging It's not nice, but take comfort that you won't stay that way forever. J. P. Donleavy, on old age © 2017 Kwiple.com
Aging Japan already knows better than anyone how quickly 100-year lives can proliferate even as the general population shrinks. Fifty years ago Japan had just 327 centenarians; in 2017 it had 67,824, and the largest per capita ratio of them in the world. Financial Times, August 8, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Aging My God, he thought, the man I once was! The life that surrounded me! The force that was mine! No “otherness” to be felt anywhere! Once upon a time I was a full human being. Philip Roth, Everyman  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Aging Of course, I know that, every year, some people Simply get up and go Too far for you to see, much less drop in on, Less yet stay with.  I know ‘The past’ is a good name for what's all over; You can't, in fact, return To what isn't a place.  It does sound like an Easy lesson to learn. Kingsley Amis, “Bobby Bailey” © 2016 Kwiple.com
Aging Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre. Philip Roth, Everyman  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Aging People talk about the aging management at Berkshire. I always assume they're talking about Charlie, when they say that. But I would like to point out that in three more years, Charlie will be aging at 1 per cent a year. No one is aging less than Charlie. Warren Buffett, 91-year-old chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, talking about Charlie Munger, its 97-year-old vice chairman, on Saturday, May 1, 2021  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Aging Pneumonia may well be called the friend of the aged. Taken off by it in an acute, short, not often painful illness, the old man escapes those “cold gradations of decay” so distressing to himself and to his friends. William Osler, The Principles and Practice of Medicine © 2018 Kwiple.com
Aging Right now, we live well, and then we don't live well, and then we die. The most that science seems to offer us is this: We'll live well, and then we'll die. Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, May 13, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Aging This will lighten your mood, Dick — every few minutes, a baby boomer turns fifty. One undertaker to another, in a September 6, 2004, New Yorker cartoon by Edward Koren © 2023 Kwiple.com
Aging This year, there will be more people over 65 than under five for the first time in human history. By 2060, the number of Americans over 65 will double, to 98m, while in Japan, 40% of the population will be 65 or older. There will not be enough younger people to look after so many, unless robots help (and probably an influx of migrants is permitted, too). Economist, February 16, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Aging We age by installments. Sándor Márai, Embers Trans. by Carol Brown Janeway © 2016 Kwiple.com
Aging We face the prospect of an army of centarians cared for by poorly paid immigrants. Seamus O'Mahony, The Way We Die Now © 2018 Kwiple.com
 
Aging Who wants to live to be a hundred? A guy who's ninety-nine. old joke © 2018 Kwiple.com
 

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Amour

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Going In Style

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Harold and Maude

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Nebraska

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The Straight Story

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Tokyo Story

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Wild Strawberries

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Videos

7 Years (Lukas Graham)

Against the Wind (Bob Seger)

Buying a Book (Joe Tex)

Dance Me to the End of Lover (Leonard Cohen)

Desperados Waiting for a Train (Highwaymen)

End of the Line (Traveling Wilburys)

The Fire Inside (Bob Seger)

Hello In There (John Prine)

Hey Nineteen (Steely Dan)

Hurt (Johnny Cash)

I Was Jack (You Were Diane) (Jake Owen)

If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast (HBO)

It Was a Very Good Year (Frank Sinatra)

Jack and Diane (John Mellancamp)

Like a Rock (Bob Seger)

Little Old Lady from Pasadena (Jan and Dean)

Menopause Rhapsody (Shirley Serban )

My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (Willie Nelson)

Reelin' in the Years (Steely Dan)

The September of My Years (Frank Sinatra)

September Song (Willie Nelson)

Still Not Dead (Willie Nelson)

Take A Picture Of This (Don Henley)

That Old Flame (Don Henley)

Time (Pink Floyd)

Tower of Time (Oscar Brown, Jr.)

U.S. citizens relocating to Mexico (CGTN)

Veronica (Elvis Costello)

Wasted Time (Eagles) [audio]

We'll Meet Again (Johnny Cash)

When We Were Young (Adele)

When You Are Old and Gray (Tom Lehrer)

Why foreign retirees are flocking to Mexico (PBS)

A Woman Half My Age (Kitty Wells)

Articles, reports

Ageing (Wikipedia)

Aging: what to expect (Mayo Clinic)

An ageing world needs more resourceful robots (Economist)

Bionic advances to defeat death (Financial Times)

Can America Age Gracefully? (New York Times)

Can We Live Longer but Stay Younger? (Adam Gopnik)

Cancer or climate change: which cure would you invest in? (Robin Harding)

Compressionn of Morbidity (James Fries)

Compression of morbidity (Wikipedia)

Elder abuse (Wikipedia)

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Eldest Statesmen

Fintan O’Toole

Falls Can Kill You. Here's How to Minimize the Risk. (Jane Brody)

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Food pattern calculator estimates how to gain up to ten life years

Unversity of Bergen Faculty of Medicine

The Graying of Rural America (Alana Semuels)

Living longer does not mean we should all work longer (Sarah O'Connor)

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A longevity diet that hacks cell ageing could add years to your life

New Scientist

Older Americans Stockpiled a Record $35 Trillion. The Time Has Come to Give It Away. (Wall Street Journal)

The Secret to a Longer Life? Don't Ask These Dead Longevity Researchers (Pagan Kennedy)

Silicon Valley's billionaires want to hack the ageing process (Anjana Ahura)

Transhumanism (FinancialTimes)

‘We Are Going to Keep You Safe, Even if It Kills Your Spirit’ (Katie Englehart)

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Who Will Care for 'Kinless' Seniors?

New York Times

Why I Hope to Die at 75 (Ezekiel Emanuel)

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Why the Tories don't care about the future

Simon Kuper

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