Let’s Talk About Aging

Francine Hardaway, PhD

There’s so much misinformation about aging that I feel compelled to write something about my own experience. I’m not a leading or lagging indicator, not an example of wrong or right, but just a real person who has arrived at 78 years old and has observed perhaps too much about herself. Please don’t compare yourself to me.

The stereotyped picture of aging is loss of capability. Here are some capabilities I’ve lost, along…