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By Madeleine Kolb
What do we really know about aging, and is what we know really true? Unfortunately, most of what we know is a confusing mix of fact and fiction, of myth and reality.
Some of the common myths are dispelled in the book “Successful Aging” by John W. Rowe, M.D. and Robert L. Kahn, Ph.D., published in 1989. The book gives results of extensive studies of aging funded by the John D. and Katherine T. MacArthur Foundation which disprove myths such as these:
Myth #1. To be old is to be sick (more…)