FIVE REASONS FOR EMBRACING AGING

Five Reasons for Embracing Aging

1) There is no scientific evidence that anti-aging creams and supplements actually work

2) Cosmetic surgery is expensive and more than "uncomfortable." Surgery is painful and may leave you looking like you just arrived from outer space.

3) The younger members of your family believe that advanced age equals advanced wisdom. (Not necessarily, but no sense in correcting them.)

4) Longevity means the opportunity to watch your grown grandchildren's adult journey and be able to offer helpful suggestions -- whether or not you're asked.

5) Medical miracles for geriatrics may be just around the corner. Any day now there will be cures for the myriad of mysterious aches and pains we suffer from daily.

        There is no other choice. The alternative sucks.

Blogging on Aging, family, finance and other senior fun stuff!

 Just so you know from the get-go, some of these blogs maybe just plain silly. And because there are countless aging issues to cover in the days and weeks ahead, I'd like to get the serious, major statistics on aging out of the way.

For instance, there are over fifty million men and women over the age of sixty-five in our country and that figure is expected to double by 2060. (Not that I, for one, will ever know for certain even if I live to be one hundred.)

Way back in 2010, the U.S. Census Bureau counted over fifty-three thousand centenarians, those of us one hundred years old - and older.

These statistics are just for starters. Simply put, those of us sixty-five and older are: 

Working longer

Have increased life expectancy 

Can celebrate the gender gap has narrowed on mortality rates.

There are many local and national organizations to assist the challenge of aging  and I'll be blogging about them as time goes on.

Who am I? My family calls me GG, for the goddess grandmother. (Sounds better than very old woman or even matriarch) I am well over 75 years old and no beauty by any means - but I do have all of my teeth. (Well, most of them.)