Noelle Nelson challenges ageist stereotypes by pointing out that 94% of seniors live independently. She profiles "amazings" in their 80s, 90s, and 100s actively pursuing meaningful projects now, from growing tomatoes to inventing technology for lunar missions, proving aging doesn't mean slowing down.
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Basically, anybody over 65 was considered decrepit, declining, boring, can't learn. I mean, the list is very, very long. This despite the fact that only 6% of Americans as of June of last year were either in nursing homes or in assisted living, which means that 94% of us are doing gosh darn well. So that, of course, led to a book because what can I tell you? I write a lot. And then as I was writing, I was, of course, course, discovering more and more what I came to call amazings, meaning people, especially in their 80s, 90s, and 100s, who are doing something amazing right now. So, it's not just the culmination of a lifetime, and that's a wonderful thing, but it was something that truly, truly mattered to them right now. And it was as diverse, Joe, as growing tomatoes and inventing something for the moon.