Late Bloomers
TED Radio Hour
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How Do You Know if You're Going to Get Old?
Ashton Applewhite: We live in a culture that beroges us with negative messages about how awful it's going to be to get old. Only 4% of older Americans are living in nursing homes, and the percentage is dropping. Dementia rates are dropping too. The real epidemic is anxiety over memory loss.
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