Aging

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/8/2023
  

  Forget Pickleball—Retired Japanese Gangsters Embrace Softball

  Like the rest of Japanese society, the Yakuza are aging, making a transition out of criminal careers a challenge. Forming a softball team—and changing the uniform colors from black to pink and gray—helped some. 

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• 12/11/2022
  

  Is Gerontocracy the Problem?

  by Cary Heinz

  Although Biden, Trump, and other prominent elected officials represent a political leadership that's unprecedented for advanced age, it's not clear we can—or should—do anything about it. 

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• SOURCE: LA Progressive
  11/1/2020
  

  Springsteen’s Open Letter to You: Be Well, Age Well

  by Walter G. Moss

  Reflections on the emergence of Bruce Springsteen as a model for aging successfully in a chaotic and dispiriting age. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  5/6/2020
  

  Out with the Old: Coronavirus Highlights Why We Need New Names for Aging

  by Caroline Cicero and Paul Nash

  Although largely unnoticed by mainstream media, something significant has happened with the rise of COVID-19: the marginalization of older Americans.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  10/18/19
  

  Gail Collins' robust social history of America's changing attitudes towards women's aging

  No Stopping Us Now makes clear, for example, that two particularly challenging times to be an older woman in America were the youth-obsessed 1920s and 1960s. 

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• 1/21/18
  

  Hey Historians: Nostalgia Can Be Good for Us

  by John Medina

  Why that’s good news for aging historians.