Golden Agers
If you look up the term golden ager at dictionary.com you will find a narrow definition that gives no insight into seniors and retirees of today.
The title Golden Agers refers to more than just a demographic. Golden Agers of today belong to a savvy, privileged group. They have lived through wars, real and Cold. They have listened to the Golden Age of Radio and watched the Golden Age of Television. They have been witnesses to the greatest explosion of scientific knowledge and technology in the history of mankind. They weren’t born with a TV remote or a computer mouse in their hands but they can use technology as well as any youngster who was. They are truly a generation whose feet are in two centuries, enjoying the advances in science and medicine of the current period but remembering the lessons and the pleasures of the last.
I like the dictionary.com definition of golden age:
“the period in life after middle age, traditionally charaterized by wisdom, contentment and useful leisure”.
Labels mean nothing, they are conveniences of the media. Whether you call them seniors or oldsters, boomers or elders, what is clear is that they belong to a generation that doesn’t take retirement lying down. They are involved, active and knowledgeable.
They are Golden Agers.
There was a classic study carried out in the early 1950s on bodies of young Americans and Japanese who died in the Korean War. The Americans, mostly in their lower 20s, had significantly clogged up arteries, which were therefore less elastic than expected. The Japanese, by contrast, had clear, elastic veins and arteries.
The conclusion drawn was that it was a dietary rather than age complaint. Simplistic maybe, but it’s still an interesting study.
By admin on November 6th, 2006 at 6:41 am