Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...age is an incurable disease...
...Seneca For all of medicine's skills, one thing has not changed since Seneca's day. Old age is as inevitable now as it was 2,000 years ago. Despite jogging's obvious benefits (for some people), it can do no more than slow the decline of the heart and lungs. The most conscientious exercises, careful diet and cautious life-style cannot halt the gradual hardening of the arteries, or prevent the reduced output of critical hormones, or bring a cessation to the wholesale death of brain cells. Such holding actions as face-lifts and skin treatments...
...relentless as the toll of the years may be, doctors still find it extremely difficult to generalize about when old age begins. By popular reckoning in the U.S., the watershed year is 65. Yet there is such variability in the human condition that it is scientifically impossible to select a single year as the turning point, even for small groups of people. As Author-Physician Leopold Bellak points out: "Some people who are chronologically 80 are biologically only 60. Their bones, eyes, ears, skin-even reflexes and blood pressure -may be those one expects in a 60-year-old." Complicating...
...age should burn and rave at close...
...depressions of unwanted retirement, Goodwin has found an outlet for some of his energies in his very anger. He has turned his white-shingled home in Lexington, ten miles from his old office in Boston, into a headquarters for his campaign to improve the care of the aged in his community. His initial target was Lexington's Golden Age Club, which Goodwin felt was not concerned with the aged poor, many of whom were forced to live on welfare. Goodwin helped found a rival organization, the Council on Aging, which obtained $5,000 from the Federal Government to begin...