how has your view of aging changed over the past 100 years? It is becoming more positive or negative?

Answer 1

I would say it's becoming more negative. Older people used to be considered wise and revered for their life experience. Now people hate to be around old people. We stick them in homes and forget about them and consider them senile. Nobody wants to age and spends thousands on surgery to look and feel younger... people are scared of death and ageing.

Answer 2

100 years ago I was too young to care. Now that I'm over 100 my views of aging has not changed, I see nothing wrong with any age.

Answer 3

Well, when I worked in a nursing home as a teen, it scared me to death. Now at the age of 51, with deteriorating health, and employers that will not hire software engineers over the age of 26, the following saying is true, "growing old is not for the weak or cowardly".

Answer 4

i was just having this conversation with my brother an hour ago!
i think my view is quite neutral. i have made plans for myself for the next few years - amazingly, Age never really came into the equation.

although it would be totally lovely being a kid all over again- where you have less responsibilities, adulthood can be pretty fun too- if you know how to do it right! :)

i want to age gracefully, thats all. hahhaa.

Answer 5

Almost everyone I met seemed to be younger than I was until I joined a club where the average age is around 75.
I used to dread getting old, but now I'm in my sixties, I'm happier and healthier than I've ever been.

Answer 6

Well since I have only been alive for 60 years, I have seen a few changes. Old people are all older then me.

Answer 7

I don't know....I haven't been around for 100 yrs.