An octogenarian today can count on living another eight years, four years longer than eighty-year-olds had in 1990. Centenarians live longer than ever before after they have reached one hundred. And the number of people over eighty who are making meaningful contributions, to their families, to their communities, and to the world, is increasing as we find health spans increasing dramatically. We are living in a time during which being old means more health and more opportunities than at any point in recorded history. Sixty-year-olds are doing the things that forty-year-olds used to do. It is no
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