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The media not often enough will depict Elders as I try to view them. In the Sandlot the old man who's property they were afraid of ended up being a very nice and kind man who had years worth of baseball stories and experiences to share with the boys. This is how most of the old people I know are too me. Smart and wise with a lot of life experience and insight that they can share with others.

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One can possibly think of a prejudice old white person they have met. However, it is a stereotype that is often depicted in media. Clint Eastwood in Grand Torino is a great example of this stereotype. He is a war vet with bigoted views that lives among an asian American population that is subject to the will of the street gangs. He says numerous blatantly racist remarks straight directly to the people in his community. Not all white people are as hardened and close minded as Eastwoods character.

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Cartoons and movies like to depict old people as stubbornly conservative, as well as tired, forgetful, and grumpy, like how the Simpsons display Homer's father. Now the older generation may be responsible for Brexit and the fact that we still aren't using the metric system, however them being tires and lazy isn't always true if you look at the picture of the 100 year old man running.

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This nicely gratified a man that loves to run and celebrated 100 years by running with his family. I was not expecting to see this while googling centenarian.

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100-year-old Orville Rogers set a new age group record in the men's 60m in 19.13 at USATF Masters Indoor Championships today. He has set many world records including running 2:17.45 400m when he was 95....Orville has been a runner for the last 50 years, and he wasn't going to change that on his 100th birthday. He and his family ran a combined 100 miles-- to celebrate every year of the his life. Rogers has had quite the journey, serving in World War II, running marathons, and even writing a book about his life and secrets to success. However, it's his four kids, 14 grandkids, and 11 great grandkids that are his true legacy. "Oh my, it's overwhelming, I am so grateful, God has been so good to me, especially with family members." It's the love and support of his family that keeps him going.

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100-year-old Orville Rogers set a new age group record in the men's 60m in 19.13 at USATF Masters Indoor Championships today. He has set many world records including running 2:17.45 400m when he was 95....Orville has been a runner for the last 50 years, and he wasn't going to change that on his 100th birthday.

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Adam Sandlers happy Gilmore sure does awkwardly acknowledge elder abuse in retirement communities. While this is a dramatization and probably exaggerated, I'm sure things like this do happen in our country.

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This show on fox gives an alternative approach on retirement. The characters live in a retirement home and do youthful activities and party together. The comedy will show situations in which these residents will flirt and banter with each other and do other things you'd expect more out of high schoolers.

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THE COOL KIDS | Official Trailer | FOX ENTERTAINMENT

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If you look at advertisements for retirement plans, or money saving opportunities for seniors, they usually try to depict retirement like this. Clearly for sales reasons. This isn't really how retirement is for everyone. In movies and Tv you sometimes see the mistreated elder. Adam Sandler's movie Happy Gilmore, shows his character's grandmother in an abusive retirement home situation.

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Get off the Streets! Old people driving!

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Get off the Streets! Old people driving!

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I love south parks satirical ability to somehow make fun of and generalize everybody ever, in a way that controversially depicts groups, and individuals in what would usually be so extremely socially unacceptable. Here's a laugh at the expense of the AARP. When all the old people in town leave a meeting at once. With a large aging population its worth thinking about how we can provide adequate transportation for elders who maybe shouldn't drive.

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Why can't we do a better job providing safe, cost-effective, and reliable transportation to older adults?

For decades, we've known about the consequences of poor transportation. It is a major reason why people miss medical appointments, struggle to shop for food and medicine, and become more socially isolated. It can contribute to malnutrition and falls, result in more emergency department visits and hospital admissions, and even push older adults to leave their homes and move to residential care.

All for want of a simple ride.

Yet, government, local non-profits, and businesses still are taking only small steps to fill this critical need. Often programs struggle to get beyond lip-service, or provide only half measures that look good on paper but do little to help older adults remain independent and as healthy as possible at home.

Like so much else in the world of senior services, transportation for older adults suffers from a lack of both coordination and resources. Technology can help. Payment systems can be modernized.

Jana Lynott of the AARP Public Policy Institute describes a model where consumers use universal scheduling software to better coordinate "door-to-door transportation services such as senior shuttles, paratransit busses, taxicabs, and even ride-hailing platforms like Uber and Lyft."

She describes the concept, called Universal mobility as a service (UMaaS), as Expedia for paratransit-a simple way for consumers to choose the most appropriate and cost-effective ride. But this, and other solutions, must navigate a swamp of regulations and payment systems that are less-then-friendly.

Traditional Medicare: Medicare generally pays only for ambulance trips to hospitals or skilled nursing facilities. Last week, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced a new demonstration program that takes a modest step towards a more sensible model. Medicare would pay for ambulance rides to lower-cost and more accessible urgent care clinics or doctor's offices.

That's fine, but seniors rarely need an ambulance to take them to the doctor. Ride-sharing or similar services would be far less costly and more convenient. Even better: Medicare could cover transportation to social services such as adult day programs, senior centers, and the like.

Medicare Advantage: Unlike fee-for-service Medicare, MA managed care plans may provide non-emergency transportation to healthcare providers. And they can use less-costly alternatives than ambulances. Under new rules, the plans will be able to expand these services in the coming years and, for example, provide rides to adult day programs or other non-medical services. Even better: If they could provide rides to the grocery store.

Medicaid: Non-emergency medical transportation is a required Medicaid benefit. However, because funding is short, many states limit this service. According to one study, 3.6 million beneficiaries "miss or delay" medical care because they cannot get to the doctor.

Public transportation: Those living in cities and some suburbs may be able to rely on the bus or other mass transit. And buses increasingly are accessible for those who use wheelchairs or otherwise need assistance. But public transportation suffers from the "last mile" problem. How does a senior who has trouble walking get from his home to the bus stop?

Some public transit agencies provide paratransit or other options for older adults. But they often are expensive and inefficient. Limited service often means long waits. A growing number of cities and counties are winning designations as "age-friendly" by improving transit options, at least on paper. But many still fall far short in reality.

Private market options: Ride sharing is a growing option for older adults, just as it is for everyone else. Uber and, especially, Lyft, are aggressively raising their profile in both the senior and medical markets. Lyft, for instance, is partnering with health systems to provide rides to medical appointments and even has begun adapting services to older customers who do not have smartphones. However, ride-sharing has its challenges: For example, most drivers are untrained in assisting customers who may have functional or cognitive limitations.

Community organizations. Volunteer rides are a core service of many community organizations. Neighborhood-based senior villages link volunteers with those who need assistance. The most common request? Rides.

Faith communities and circles of friends do much the same informally, sometimes with the help of online calendar software such as lotsa helping hands. And community-based organizations are non-profits that often provide rides or information about third-party transportation (full disclosure: I am on the board of such a non-profit).

This really isn't that hard, and the payoff in improved quality of life and potential cost savings could be significant. Government, business, the health system, and non-profits need to get on board this train.

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Why Can't We Expand Access To Transportation For Older Adults?

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Why can't we do a better job providing safe, cost-effective, and reliable transportation to older adults? For decades, we've known about the consequences of poor transportation. It is a major reason why people miss medical appointments, struggle to shop for food and medicine, and become more socially isolated.

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This article depicts boomers as an untapped mine. New markets and innovations are emerging, and this economist argues that those who tap into the unmet needs of our aging population will thrive and profit in figuring out how to tend to the needs of the elderly as the aging middle class generation of boomers are retiring.

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Image credit: JGI | Tom Grill | Getty Images

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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.

For years, consumer markets have been obsessed with youth. And as the global population continues to gray, businesses have been slow to adjust to the demographic shift. But worldwide, the 60-and-older age bracket is anticipated to more than double by 2050. Finding out what these consumers want is more important than ever.

This is especially true in the developing world, where increases in life expectancy compound the challenges of urbanization and globalization. Declining population growth and global pressures have made it increasingly difficult for traditional elder care to continue. Plus, seniors in the developing world are staying mobile and active -- so they naturally represent a bigger share of the consumer market than at any time in history.
Related: 5 Predictions for the Senior and Boomer Market
Luckily for entrepreneurs, this market remains deeply underserved. "Aging in place" is a powerful concept that should underlie any product or service marketed toward older adults. By 2030, about 60 percent of the world's population will live in cities, and a growing share of them will be seniors. The World Health Organization's Global Age-Friendly Cities Guide encourages public agencies and private developers to incorporate amenities that allow older seniors to stay engaged in their home communities -- reducing the likelihood that healthy older adults will move to retirement villages.

Stereotypes about aging have prevented businesses from making true inroads into this untapped market. That leaves a number of wide-open gaps just waiting for the right product or service. Large middle classes are barreling toward retirement, and they need solutions built for independent older adults, not caricatures of seniors content to rock on the porch. Here are a few standout industries in which investments today are sure to pay dividends in the future.

Transportation.

Aging in place has major implications as a strategy, and it offers many ways for entrepreneurs to create value. Transportation is one of the most obvious sectors. If older consumers are going to give up the convenience offered by retirement communities, they'll need convenient travel options to and from their existing homes.

In the developing world, adults who are no longer able to drive themselves often face a dearth of transit options. The older a person gets, the less likely he or she is to continue driving. This presents a clear obstacle to successfully aging in place.

Lyft and Uber offer templates in the sharing economy. But they require apps, and seniors have been slow to embrace mobile devices. In fact, only one-quarter of people older than 65 owns a smartphone. Here's the multimillion-dollar question: How can seniors close the transport gap without needing to adopt the buying habits of younger generations? The entrepreneur who finds a workable template or creates a new way to get buy-in from seniors will tap into a significant market.
Related: Ridesharing Services Are Chipping Away at Mass Transit for Some Americans, But Safety Remains a Big Concern
Smart homes.

Aging in place has become more attractive in part because the Western model of retirement communities (and nursing homes, for those who need skilled care) clashes with cultural traditions around aging.

In China, for example, retirement complexes and nursing homes have been slow to develop. There were only 26 nursing-home beds per 1,000 senior citizens in 2015. The economic benefits of enrolling a parent or grandparent in such a facility are at odds with the cultural expectation that elders will be kept at the center of the family and supported in luxury.
Related: The Next Big Opportunity for Tech Entrepreneurs? 'Smart' Homes.
The field is wide open for an entrepreneur with a creative solution. Innovations that make it easier to live at home for longer have the potential to capture huge revenue from older adults. Connected home technology will play a large role. Services such as Nest or Amazon's Alexa have pioneered the smart home as a luxury service -- an added convenience.

Services that are intentionally geared toward helping seniors stay safe, independent and connected are the next big step. They'll become part of an infrastructure for extended independence, not viewed as perks. Stair-lifts and non-slip bathtubs are just two strong precedents for these innovations. Seniors in developed markets are willing to invest in such adjustments. As technology fuels another wave of senior-oriented products, the connected home is a place to bet big in emerging markets, too.

New experiences.

Product developers have tried for years to come up with products and services to appeal to baby boomers entering their golden years. They've had little success.

Ken Dychtwald, a gerontologist and psychologist, offers a crisp analysis of the problem: "I have been in meetings where I ask Fortune 500 CEOs what they would do about this market [seniors], and often their minds jump to assisted-living devices for dementia or grab bars for showers. They don't think of Lexus convertibles. They don't think of Amazon. They should."
Related: 7 Tips for Marketing to Older Audiences
Innovators realize they need to break down commonly held misconceptions that have become almost entrenched in society. Here are a few: Seniors don't change product loyalties, older consumers don't want new experiences, and a 65-year-old has the same desires and needs as a 90-year-old.

Mature consumers increasingly are driving many markets in the developing world. China's travel sector is adjusting quickly to meet increased demand from seniors who are behaving like a new leisure class. This group is expected to become the tourism sector's main movers. Chinese seniors plan to travel abroad at previously unseen rates: 10 million per year by 2030. The airlines, cruise lines, hotels and package tours that best meet their needs will be some of the biggest winners in coming decades.

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5 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. For years, consumer markets have been obsessed with youth. And as the global population continues to gray, businesses have been slow to adjust to the demographic shift. But worldwide, the 60-and-older age bracket is anticipated to more than double by 2050.

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This one NY post article is aggressive in saying that boomers are incapable of the things they still do in their age. It's pretty surprising how the blatantly tone and rhetoric in this article bashes people over 65. they depict boomers as being rich and greedy as well as completely negligent, generalizing a whole generation. A quote in reference to Trump Biden or Elizabeth all running for 2020 election, "You wouldn’t give your 78-year-old grandfather the Amazon password, never mind the nuclear codes".

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With strong telescopes, scientists say they can still detect faint echoes of the Big Bang. Sometimes I wonder if maybe they're picking up cosmic interference from a different signal event that won't fade away.

I'm talking about the Baby Boom.

The generation that went from Woodstock to Wall Street to the White House should really now be packing the proverbial Winnebago. But retirement was never part of the rock 'n' roll fantasy. From Capitol Hill to the economy's commanding heights, the baby boomers aren't letting go.

Once upon a time, they wouldn't trust anyone over 30. Now they won't let anyone under 60 near the corner office - or the Oval Office.

Baby boomer Donald Trump is already the oldest person ever to have won the presidency. If he defies the impeachers and wins again in November, that'll be eight straight boomer presidential victories - a better run even than the Founding generation.

A re-elected Trump will be 78 when he leaves office in January 2025. You wouldn't give your 78-year-old grandfather the Amazon password, never mind the nuclear codes.

That goes double for the Democrats. If Joe Biden wins, he'll be 78 when he's inaugurated. Bernie Sanders is already 78 - and recently had a heart attack. Mike Bloomberg turns 78 on Valentine's Day. Elizabeth Warren would be a year older on her first day as president than Trump was on his.

Look past the presidency. Everybody's ancient. Mitch McConnell is about to turn 78. Nancy Pelosi will be 80 in March.

Look past politics. Anna Wintour is still running Conde Nast at 70. Robert Iger, 68, helms Disney. It's boomers all the way down.

Whatever happened to 65 and out? Whatever happened to "I hope I die before I get old"? Apparently, these guys weren't kidding when they said, "Hell no, we won't go!"

Baby boomers have always prided themselves on defying convention. And - credit where it's due - they've never wavered. Whether shocking their parents with zeal for the sexual revolution or shocking their children with zeal for conspicuous consumption, boomers resolutely refuse to do the traditional thing.

That defiance extends to what are supposed to be the golden years. And to the idea of cleaning up their own mess. Baby boomers don't like to hear it, but the stardust they kicked up over a half-century hangs heavy in the atmosphere. It's grinding a lot of gears.

Take a look around. Can you name a single institution of American life that's functioning better today than it was before the boomers took over? I bet you can't.

Higher education. Organized religion. Health care. Journalism. Finance. Politics. As boomer poet laureate Bob Dylan said, everything is broken.

Picking up the pieces will be the perpetually ignored members of Generation X. We've always lived in the baby boomers' shadow. Now, because of their collective reluctance to hit the bricks, we get the weird privilege of being locked out of the top jobs during our most productive years.

Ask Cory Booker and Kamala Harris how things are looking career-wise. Or kick the question over to Paul Ryan, the youngest retiree at the Janesville senior center canasta table.

The big chill will get the baby boomers eventually, that's true. But guess who's coming to dinner after that? Hordes of impatient millennials conditioned by Google, Facebook and Amazon to accept nothing less than instant satisfaction. Gen X gets squeezed from both ends.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be of age to run for president in 2024. She doesn't seem keen to wait a few cycles for her turn to come around. Does anyone think we won't be hearing the name Pete Buttigieg, 38, for the rest of our natural lives?

My advice to Gen Xers in politics or any other career is simple: If an opportunity to lead presents itself, grab it while you have the chance. The window won't be open long.
Matthew Hennessey is the author of "Zero Hour for Gen X: How the Last Adult Generation Can Save America from Millennials" (Encounter), which is out now in paperback.

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With strong telescopes, scientists say they can still detect faint echoes of the Big Bang. Sometimes I wonder if maybe they're picking up cosmic interference from a different signal event that won't fade away. I'm talking about the Baby Boom.