“For six New Yorkers age 85 and older . . . old age is a mixture of happiness and sadness, with less time wasted on anger and worry.”
For the past year, New York Times journalist John Leland and photographer Nicole Bengiveno have been documenting the lives of six New Yorkers over the age of 85 in a quest to answer these questions:
” What is reasonable to ask of old age? Beyond the assaults of poverty or illness, to what extent can people shape the quality of life in their late years?”
Read the article here and see the 2:41 video, “The Secret to a Long Life.” This is the final article in a series of seven entitled, “85 and Up”; the previous articles are also available through links you can find in the left sidebar at the end of the article.
[Thanks to EngAGE Founder and Executive Director Tim Carpenter for sending the link.]
