I have been aging all of my life. I have been studying and working in aging about 35 years. Now I'm wondering if what I've studied all the years and counseled others about will apply to me.
I'm not even sure if I am old. When I started working in the field 65 was sort of the official beginning of aging. Now we hear fifty is the beginning of aging but no fifty is the new thirty or is it the new forty? Or maybe fifty is the new forty and sixty is the new fifty no I think sixty is the new forty. My great grandmother who lived to ninety-six always told me people say I'm old but I don't feel old. I think the way I've always thought and enjoy the same things I've always enjoyed. The older I get the more I think I feel the same, I think the same but I know I'm old.
I think I'm old. I'm sixty-one not the old (?) official old but the new old?

I would like to explore with you what is happening in my old age and see if it is what is happening in your old age. What is aging in America? I have read enough books on it and talked with a lot of people but I'm not sure I have an answer. Is my aging unique or like all the Boomers who are aging? When I started in the field of aging our goal was to make aging better for everyone in he USA. Did we do it? Did we do anything?