“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 10/12/11:
What does 100 look like? Karsten Thormaehlen, a German photographer, decided to show us “Die Schönheit des Alters” (“The Beauty of Old Age”) in her book, Mit hundert hat man noch Träume (At 100 One Still Has Dreams). Here’s a rough translation from the website:
“They have witnessed almost the entire 20th Century – two world wars, the division of Germany and reunification. The pictures show dignified old men and women who have previously worked as farmers, booksellers, theater owners. But the 100-year-olds are not only people with a past, but people with very current passions, from chess games to gymnastics, for books, operettas or fishing.”
See a selection of the photographs here. Although the captions are in German, the joy on the faces of the subjects doesn’t need translation!
Did you know that the poverty rate among people age 65 and older is nearly twice as high for women as for men?
From The Legacy Project website:
In addition to giving us the book 
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