How should we
think about the onset of older age?
On New
Measurements of Aging
Everything is
changing about 65-year-olds. They’re not the same as they were in 1950 or as
they will be in 2050. Still, conventional measures used across the world treat
everyone as becoming old starting at age 65.
Warren Sanderson,
a professor of social and behavioral sciences at Stony Brook University, is
working on ways to define aging other than the passing of years
The article
reads: We think age has much more to do
with how people function than how many birthdays they’ve had, so measuring
function is the crucial thing
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