With aging comes physical and emotional challenge. We cannot seem to get as much done in an hour as we did in youth. And it is harder to be patient with others, and they seem more demanding.
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In an ageing society, it makes sense to support older adults to develop new skills, prolonging their working lives.
The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.
Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.
I understand that there's a certain energy in youth, no question, in terms of pursuing jobs. But there is wisdom in age. It's too bad that the two can't come together because I do think that people are dropped from what they're really good at too soon.
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.
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