What's with all the Ageism in These Threads??

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98. Thanks I see your meaning but it seems so unscientific.

Do you have any accelerated aging examples?

We have had since FDR(who did have a disability) Truman, Eisenhower, JFK (3 yrs but I could not say he aged appreciably in that time), Johnson. Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, GHW Bush, Clinton, G.W. Bush, Obama.

I honestly haven't seen the signs of accelerated aging



http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/obama-going-gray-do-presidents-age-faster-201112063912
One researcher on aging found that presidents had longevity

Accelerated presidential aging? Not so.

The only problem with this notion of accelerated presidential aging is that it just ain’t so, according to S. Jay Olshansky, a professor at theUniversity ofIllinois at Chicago and a longevity expert.

In an article in tomorrow’s Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Olshansky says his research into presidential life expectancy found no evidence that American presidents die sooner than other American men of their time. In fact, quite the opposite: most of them lived long lives and beat the longevity expectations for their time.


Privileged people, including presidents, live longer

In his JAMA article, Olshansky offered a couple of explanations for presidential longevity.

All but 10 of the deceased presidents (whom he had studied) were college educated, wealthy, and had access to the top medical care of their day. The correlation between high socioeconomic status and long life is strong and consistent.

The other explanation is that these men were survivors. To reach the age at which they became president (the average was 55.1 years), they had to get through the perils of birth, early childhood, and young adulthood. Especially in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries, that wasn’t easy, so these men probably had some inborn hardiness, as well as fortunate circumstances.

Do our eyes deceive us? Yes they do.

And yet presidents do seem to age before our eyes. Olshansky says that’s partly because we just notice it more in someone who lives in the public eye.

In his JAMA article, Olshansky cited a study that connected gray hair to stress. But in his conversation with me, he emphasized that the outward signs of what we commonly attribute to aging and genuine aging aren’t necessarily related. “Getting wrinkles and turning gray—they really don’t matter very much,” he said.


In terms of knowing the experience and temperament of someone younger. Of course we can but they do have to have a certain amount of experience. Senators often do not have executive experience. Some experience in the non-governmental world.I suspect does not transfer well into the world of politics.

What do you think about the age of Supreme Court Justices?