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They never saw their age as a limitation. But what about the rest of us? Waiting in the lobby, your name is called. A nurse shows you to the examination room. Annual checkup. How s it going, young man? How are you doing today, young lady? What is it about those greetings that rub the wrong way? Patronizing? Saccharine? A thinly veiled sympathy card in acknowledgement of this disease called ageing? The reduction of the older individual to a generic? Imagine greeting President Joe Biden, Dolores Huerta, Harry Belafonte, Nancy Pelosi, Willie Nelson or Jane Fonda in this manner? (See SLATE magazine s December 2020 issue for The Most Influential 80-Plus-Year-Olds in America. ) Do they command more respect because they are a celebrity? Yes. But they also never saw their age as a limitation. What about the rest of us?

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