Positive Images of Aging

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Positive Images of Aging is a compilation DVD that gives you access to 14 different video segments, 3-5 minutes in length, that each reflect on a positive image of aging. Because they are chaptered on the DVD, you have instant access to any of the 14 segments. Show one or more of them to clients, or incorporate them into a PowerPoint presentation. Chapters include: 1. Changing Perceptions of Aging 2. Positive Adjustment as We Age 3. Intimacy in the Elder Years 4. Family Ties, Grandparenting, and Mentoring 5. Foster Grandparents 6. Wisdom and Courage in Elderhood 7. Creative Aging 8. Beauty in Aging 9. Spirited Senior Softball plus 5 bonus Features on Longevity 10. Genetics Versus Lifestyle 11. Diet and Excerise 12. Calorie Restriction 13. Aging Statistics 14. A Visit with Centenarians

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Trouble is that when
you\'re wrinkled--

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Use the word, old.

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People make assumptions
about you.

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Old shoe.

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Old hat.

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They think you\'re too old
to cut the mustard.

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Over the hill.

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And I\'m not.

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The old has gotten
that bad rap.

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We inherit such a backlog
of negative

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characteristics about aging.

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The negative images are
based on some very

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hard historical facts.

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The first people to be downsized
back in the days of

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the dark satanic mills
were older workers.

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They were not considered agile
enough, smart enough, or

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flexible enough to
continue working.

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Out of that came the perception
of older people as

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being parasitic, dependent,
incapable.

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They were marginalized.

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And then when you\'re no longer
able to produce as an adult,

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you just fall off the
edge, as it were.

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You\'re not seen as
a decent person.

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You become at this point
somebody who\'s being

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warehoused as a redundant
population.

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There\'s a lot of
misunderstanding about the

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percentage of older people who
end up in an institutional

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setting defined specifically as
a nursing home or hospital.

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Most people think that a very
large percentage of older

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people are in those settings.

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But in fact, at any one point
in time, it is, at best, 5%.

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The whole image of aging
is profoundly changing.

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You are amazed sometimes when
you look in the mirror and see

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that old person looking
out at you.

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Why, that\'s not me.

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That\'s not the way I feel.

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I feel so much younger.

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It wasn\'t very long ago
that we thought after

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age 65 life was over.

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I recall my mother at 60 was
in her house dress, sitting

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before the TV, and
kind of vegging.

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And I think she saw her life
as very finite and that it

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should be over around 70.

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And by god, that\'s
when she died.

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Quite frankly, I feel that I\'m
still at the tip of my own

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iceberg, that I haven\'t really
done everything that is there

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for me to do.

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I too am trying to get rid of
the stereotypic view that 60--

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oops, here it comes.

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Let\'s start cutting down,
cutting back.

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I\'ve got to get rid of that.

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And I work on it all the time,
work on my head all the time.

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But always religiously, and
probably in a slightly

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obsessed way, I work
out every morning.

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It\'s just part of what I do.

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And it works.

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It\'s nice to be outside.

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It\'s nice to grub around in the
dirt and have the rewards

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of your efforts.

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And I find it very satisfying.

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It\'s nice to build a fire in the
middle of winter in your

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wood stove.

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And you know you\'ve
got your own wood.

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It\'s kind of nice to feel
self sufficient.

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And maybe that\'s the reason
I don\'t feel old.

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And I\'ve never felt that
there wasn\'t anything I

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couldn\'t try to do.

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That\'s kind of fun, thinking
that you can do anything.

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I feel healthy when
I exercise.

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I feel happy when
I\'m exercising.

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I could take the car.

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But I have this theory that if
you don\'t keep going, you get

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stiff and you won\'t
be able to.

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And you won\'t want to.

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And it becomes uncomfortable.

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So if you just keep yourself
in shape and use

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it, you lose it.

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I mean if you don\'t keep
yourself in shape,

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you might lose it.

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The idea that older people are
set in their ways, there\'s

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nothing you can do.

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It\'s all downhill.

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I mean it\'s all uphill,
I guess.

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And there\'s nothing you can do
to change that course is

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absolutely false.

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I don\'t smoke.

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I don\'t drink.

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I don\'t want to wreck
this beautiful body.

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The more you take care of
it, the longer it will

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take care of you.

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I went out.

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And the waves weren\'t so good.

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And I got hit by the
board in my ear.

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And it broke my ear drum.

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And so the doctor said, don\'t
go in the water for a while.

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You just stay away
from the water.

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I thought well, it\'s
time to quit.

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You got to quit sometime
anyway.

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So I\'ve had enough.

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Then I thought to myself,
now wait a minute.

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I\'ll just stay on
smaller waves.

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I don\'t have to go out on
those bigger waves.

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So I think I\'ll keep
it up for a while.

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When we\'re young, we
take all the time.

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I want to give something now.

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Working with love.

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I\'m giving love all
over the place.

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So the law says, what you
do unto others will be

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done back to you.

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So therefore, I\'ll get
the love back to me.

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This is the spiritual
way of life.

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Woody Brown volunteers three
days a week at Hale Makua

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Adult Day Health Center
near his home on Maui.

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You\'re still a young girl,
yet, you know.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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You can talk, and you can
walk a little bit.

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If you fall down, I\'m
going with you.

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We\'ll both go together.

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Thank God.

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You\'re so strong.

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You\'re like a piece of wire.

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You have to be strong to
be surfing, or you\'ll

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get killed, you know.

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Some of them are even younger
than you are.

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And here you are coming in, and
volunteering, and taking

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them here and there.

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They say, hey.

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If he can get well, he
can stay healthy.

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It gives them some incentive,
some motivation.

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Yeah.

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Having Woody around is like
having an extra pair of arms,

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and legs, and eyes, and
especially heart, an extra

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heart around.

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That\'s really important working
in a place like this.

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You had a good hike, huh?

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Good.

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You had a good walk.

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It keeps me mentally alert
because I\'m with people and

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helping them.

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And then, it\'s sharing my
joy with everybody.

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So I\'m building my spirit.

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And it gives me great joy to
feel that I\'m doing something

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for my fellow man.

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It\'s a tough thing to age.

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I fought it.

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My ego was big.

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I didn\'t like to admit that I
was backing off on waves.

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I didn\'t like to admit that
I wasn\'t cutting it like

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I used to cut it.

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And at one point, everyone
else is out there.

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And they\'re yelling, Van
Dyke, Van Dyke go go.

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It\'s your wave.

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It\'s your wave.

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I was in the perfect position.

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I went to go.

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I looked.

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And I didn\'t want to know
anything about that wave.

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For the first time in my life,
I\'d gotten in touch with fear,

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true, uncontrolled fear.

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And it had blown me away.

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I backed off.

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And at that point, I thought I
don\'t belong out here anymore.

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And I caught a wave
into the beach.

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So from then on, as far as
riding big waves, it was all,

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more or less, going downhill
to quitting it.

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And then I thought, 10 feet.

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10 feet is my maximum now.

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I lost friends that way.

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None of them would admit it.

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But I wasn\'t one of
the gang anymore.

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And I could feel it on
the vibration level.

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It bothered me.

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It hurt.

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Psychologically, aging
for me is the pits.

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My fear comes up continuously.

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I\'m supposed to be this macho,
tough surfer guy, and I\'m not.

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I\'m really a wuss
inside, totally.

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Maybe that\'s why
Joan loves me.

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I don\'t know.

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One of the major reasons why I
don\'t ride big waves anymore

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is because of my wife,
Joan Marie.

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And when I fell in love with
her, the whole thing in my

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life changed.

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It was the first time in my life
I had love, I truthfully

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can say the first time that
I experienced real love.

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And as I get older, I
don\'t need to surf.

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I surf because I like
the exercise.

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But all I really need is Joan
to be my friend and lover.

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And that\'s what she is.

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We are buddies.

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We are lovers.

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We\'re buddies.

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And we are everything
together.

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We\'re part of each other now.

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When you get married a long time
like we\'ve been married,

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you can anticipate what
the other is thinking.

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We almost can look at each
other, and I know, across the

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hall, across the room
what\'s in out mind.

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I love her just as much as I
ever did, but in a physical

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sense, we both are ill.

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So we lean on each other to
make a whole, I guess.

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Two together.

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In my case, and Inez\'s case,
she had a stroke.

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And I\'m disabled to the point
where I\'m locked to--

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Two of them, baby.

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I had two strokes.

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And I\'ve been sick for
a number of years.

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And my health is not too good.

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So I\'m just hanging in there.

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That\'s more like it.

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She\'s hanging in there.

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But we\'re hanging in there
with good humor.

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And it\'s good, too.

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We see the bright
side of life.

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We can\'t say we look back on our
life that we had, and we

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feel rejuvenated because we had
such a good time together.

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[MUSIC - INEZ JONES, \"MOONLIGHT
IN VERMONT\"]

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She should go first.

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I won\'t be long behind
her because we

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are that close together.

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I don\'t think it should
be part of

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me gone that I couldn\'t--

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might feel lost really.

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Everybody has to go sometime.

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But I would hate to lose her.

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I don\'t know.

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You ain\'t going to lose me.

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Oh no, I\'ll be there.

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I\'ll be there soon if
I should lose you.

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You know, there\'s
a tune called--

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[PAUL SINGING]

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If I should lose you.

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Ba da bo doo ba de day.

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If I should go way.

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But I should leave
another day.

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Da da de de da.

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Ba da de day.

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Now that\'s the one.

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Every word in there.

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If you think about it, if you\'ve
ever heard the tune,

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that\'s what I\'m trying to say.

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If I should lose you.

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Because when you see them
getting excited, paddling back

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out and saying, grandma,
grandma.

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I caught that wave by myself.

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You didn\'t even have
to push me.

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It\'s all what living is about
because you see in them a part

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of you and the time, I
guess, when I told

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my father, hey dad.

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I did it all by myself.

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You didn\'t have to push me.

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To me the key elements in life
have been loving other people.

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Because what you give is
what you get back.

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Family is the glue that
holds life together.

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You can do it.

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Very good.

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Very good.

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Are you going all the way to
the bottom of the pool?

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You want to show me?

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Surfing with my sons this
morning was magical.

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It was absolutely magical.

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It brought back memories of
when they were learning to

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surf, when they were
real little.

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We caught the wave altogether.

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And then we joined hands.

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We were holding hands
coming out of it.

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And it\'s just, wow.

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You know, one of those once
in a lifetime kind of

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experiences.

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It was almost like
electricity.

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It was that kind of energy.

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It obviously touches my
heart incredibly.

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If you could transform love into
energy, it was like this

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electricity just moving
through all of us.

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You gotta get your head
in the center.

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Don\'t move your head like
this to balance.

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Where your head go,
you\'re gonna fall.

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OK.

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You think you\'re gonna
fall, watch me.

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You bend down and then
grab your board.

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Down.

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Drop your tail.

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There.

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On your knees.

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OK. stay there.

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Keep your knees apart.

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Left foot.

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Right foot.

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Let go.

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Bend.

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Got it?

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Down again.

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Nowadays, I go out here.

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I work with the young kids.

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A lot of them, I got them
to be world surfing

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championships.

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OK.

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Left foot.

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Right foot.

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Let go.

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You\'re in.

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What you get, you give back.

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That\'s what Duke says.

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What he had, all his knowledge,
he pass it onto me.

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Now, I pass it on down.

00:15:33.904 --> 00:15:53.700 align:middle line:90%

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Because our senior population
is living longer, we need to

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utilize that resource
in a good way.

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Because of their volunteering
in their community, the

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benefits are extraordinary.

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We have seniors that
have what I call

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re-energized their lives.

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You get a life when you
start working here.

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You know what I mean?

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Because I\'m not the type
to sit home anyhow.

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What are you going to
do when you retire?

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Sit home?

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Get old?

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Sure, we\'re all getting old.

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But why push it?

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The Foster Grandparent Program,
which is to work with

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kids one on one in schools, day
care centers, head start

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program, any situation
that deals with

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working with young people.

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See it.

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No, Wednesday.

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Wednesday, right here.

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Tuesday, Wednesday.

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Thank you, Jasmine.

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Go wash your hands please.

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This gives me something to do.

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I look forward.

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I come from 8:30 until 4.

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And I\'m here all day long and
participate in everything the

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children do.

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That is the cereal.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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I\'m usually in building
trades by nature.

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And that\'s my work.

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But in the winter,
it\'s very slow.

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So somebody told me
about Head Start.

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And I believe I\'m
a workaholic.

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So I had to do something.

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If there were more grandparents
that could help

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these schools, be something.

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We can help the teachers because
they have a big load.

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The teachers have a big load.

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Mr. Jose, push me.

00:17:42.260 --> 00:17:46.300 align:middle line:84%
Foster Grandparents are the
extra eyes, ears, and hands

00:17:46.300 --> 00:17:47.985 align:middle line:90%
for teachers in the classroom.

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We have a foster grandparent
that is say, bilingual in

00:17:50.770 --> 00:17:53.980 align:middle line:84%
Spanish and English working with
a young person that is

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monolingual.

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We had a couple of children
last year from Venezuela.

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And they didn\'t speak
a word of English.

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Pretty soon they were speaking
better English

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than the other children.

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So I\'d turn around.

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I\'d forget at times.

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I\'d say, hey.

00:18:09.240 --> 00:18:10.280 align:middle line:90%
Vamos aca.

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Let\'s go over here.

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Miss Dolly, I don\'t understand
Spanish.

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I told them, well, you\'re
going to learn.

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It was just so cute.

00:18:17.926 --> 00:18:20.390 align:middle line:84%
But the children, when they left
here, they were speaking

00:18:20.390 --> 00:18:21.580 align:middle line:90%
English fluently.

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The could write their names,
anything you might ask them.

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So this is really a privilege
for the child because they\'re

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speaking two languages.

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And all life is very good.

00:18:33.550 --> 00:18:35.770 align:middle line:84%
But it\'s what we make
of our life.

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It\'s what we make of it.

00:18:37.280 --> 00:18:39.370 align:middle line:90%
It\'s what we contribute.

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And I feel I\'m contributing
something to this

00:18:44.920 --> 00:18:46.416 align:middle line:90%
child that needs me.

00:18:46.416 --> 00:18:51.770 align:middle line:90%

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Do something.

00:18:53.020 --> 00:18:53.670 align:middle line:90%
Do something.

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Don\'t just sit down like
a couch potato.

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In the beginning, I hope I
would like to be able to

00:19:01.980 --> 00:19:06.030 align:middle line:84%
create a wave of interest in
campaign finance reform.

00:19:06.030 --> 00:19:08.710 align:middle line:84%
She is an 89-year-old great
grandmother who is walking

00:19:08.710 --> 00:19:11.380 align:middle line:84%
across the United States in
support of getting big money

00:19:11.380 --> 00:19:12.570 align:middle line:90%
out of politics.

00:19:12.570 --> 00:19:16.290 align:middle line:84%
The media and the Senate was
saying that people back home

00:19:16.290 --> 00:19:17.150 align:middle line:90%
don\'t care.

00:19:17.150 --> 00:19:18.730 align:middle line:90%
And I knew that wasn\'t true.

00:19:18.730 --> 00:19:20.230 align:middle line:84%
Or at least I thought
it wasn\'t true.

00:19:20.230 --> 00:19:23.760 align:middle line:84%
And it was true, then they
better jolly well care.

00:19:23.760 --> 00:19:27.000 align:middle line:90%
And that\'s why I walked.

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It\'s really overwhelming
the amount of

00:19:30.030 --> 00:19:31.710 align:middle line:90%
attention I\'m getting.

00:19:31.710 --> 00:19:36.370 align:middle line:84%
A little old lady who played
Scrabble Monday mornings and

00:19:36.370 --> 00:19:39.560 align:middle line:84%
went to a class for government
on Tuesdays.

00:19:39.560 --> 00:19:44.720 align:middle line:84%
The rest of the time taking life
easy, reading and taking

00:19:44.720 --> 00:19:47.450 align:middle line:84%
a walk in the afternoon and
one in the morning.

00:19:47.450 --> 00:19:51.980 align:middle line:84%
And suddenly, I\'ve become
noticed by everyone.

00:19:51.980 --> 00:19:56.370 align:middle line:84%
And now I have cars going by,
stopping to shake hands with

00:19:56.370 --> 00:19:59.710 align:middle line:84%
me, or waving out the window
screaming, go, granny, go.

00:19:59.710 --> 00:20:03.782 align:middle line:84%
The whole thing is like
a fairy story.

00:20:03.782 --> 00:20:05.910 align:middle line:90%
I just don\'t believe it.

00:20:05.910 --> 00:20:08.810 align:middle line:84%
Over the history of
civilization, older people

00:20:08.810 --> 00:20:11.670 align:middle line:84%
have traditionally been the
keepers of the culture.

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And I think it\'s been a factor
of this wisdom that comes with

00:20:15.830 --> 00:20:19.620 align:middle line:84%
aging but also this courage
to do the right thing.

00:20:19.620 --> 00:20:24.040 align:middle line:84%
We have no hope of solving this
problem by asking for

00:20:24.040 --> 00:20:28.890 align:middle line:84%
their courteous agreement
to change their ways.

00:20:28.890 --> 00:20:30.930 align:middle line:84%
We must change their
ways for them.

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[APPLAUSE]

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And then sometimes you see this
in the most important

00:20:40.160 --> 00:20:44.300 align:middle line:84%
spheres that influence the
course of society.

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When one looks back in terms of
the original Mideast Peace

00:20:48.330 --> 00:20:52.200 align:middle line:84%
Initiative and Agreements, all
of the key players in making

00:20:52.200 --> 00:20:57.380 align:middle line:84%
those decisions were from their
mid \'60s to early \'70s.

00:20:57.380 --> 00:21:01.420 align:middle line:84%
It was as if they finally felt
permission as a factor of

00:21:01.420 --> 00:21:03.630 align:middle line:84%
where they were developmentally
to try

00:21:03.630 --> 00:21:06.284 align:middle line:84%
something, which in the past
may have been ineffable or

00:21:06.284 --> 00:21:08.600 align:middle line:90%
inconceivable.

00:21:08.600 --> 00:21:12.510 align:middle line:84%
But I feel that their age gave
them that courage and that

00:21:12.510 --> 00:21:17.120 align:middle line:84%
feeling that they could try
something that was very bold,

00:21:17.120 --> 00:21:21.100 align:middle line:84%
was very different and yet would
make a profound impact

00:21:21.100 --> 00:21:22.350 align:middle line:90%
on the culture.

00:21:22.350 --> 00:21:27.050 align:middle line:90%

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People used to think that with
aging, it was all over.

00:21:30.030 --> 00:21:32.910 align:middle line:84%
It was downhill, of course, that
it was just a matter of

00:21:32.910 --> 00:21:34.520 align:middle line:84%
time before you lose
it and that you

00:21:34.520 --> 00:21:35.350 align:middle line:90%
couldn\'t learn anything.

00:21:35.350 --> 00:21:38.340 align:middle line:84%
You can\'t teach old
dogs new tricks.

00:21:38.340 --> 00:21:43.460 align:middle line:84%
Today we know all of those
images are incorrect, that

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ongoing learning knows no end
point in the life cycle.

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And the biggest factor for
maintaining the skills, or

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even enhancing them, is
ongoing challenge.

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It\'s amazing what can come out
when we challenge ourselves.

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And we don\'t want to
limit ourselves.

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We want to present challenges
and opportunities through the

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Society for Creative Aging.

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Ours is a community
based model.

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We\'re relying on the
resources that

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exist within the community.

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We want to approach elders
individually that are still

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functioning and vibrant in
independent living as well as

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our frail elders who are in the
full range of facilities,

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be it assisted living or
nursing home units.

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Those who have mental
disabilities or physical

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handicaps, to us,
it\'s irrelevant.

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We think it\'s available
for everyone.

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[SINGING]

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We think that anybody
is capable of

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doing a creative act.

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Creativity is within us all.

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It\'s not about the product.

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It\'s about the process and
going through that and

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expressing themselves.

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Through intergenerational
programming, we want to

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connect our youth to our elders
so that they can look

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up and see life lessons that are
so important and have the

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seniors share some of their
wisdom with the young so that

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they feel still a part
of society at large.

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The whole thing is not
about being afraid.

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And it\'s not about
making mistakes.

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There is no right or wrong.

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Everyone has movement.

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And to whatever degree that
you can move, you can

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participate.

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We have one dancer.

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She came.

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And she said well, I have
trouble with balance.

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I said, no problem.

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You can do a lot of the dance
movements from a chair.

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Well that concept was totally
foreign to everyone.

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How in the world can you move
and dance from a chair?

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But it was amazing.

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She was able to go through and
use her body to whatever

00:24:21.940 --> 00:24:25.735 align:middle line:84%
limited range of motion she
had and express herself.

00:24:25.735 --> 00:24:28.990 align:middle line:90%

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I think creativity for those who
have already been involved

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in their lives, we know that it
does affect their life and

00:24:38.950 --> 00:24:40.200 align:middle line:90%
their quality of life.

00:24:40.200 --> 00:24:42.730 align:middle line:90%

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I\'m a painter.

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And I\'ve been painting all my
life ever since eight years

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old out of necessity at first
because I was bedridden and

00:24:54.130 --> 00:24:56.590 align:middle line:90%
drew on anything.

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And somehow or other, it just
sort of got me started.

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And from there on,
I had to paint.

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Or I had to draw.

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And I\'ve been doing
it for 60 years.

00:25:07.285 --> 00:25:10.130 align:middle line:90%

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When you paint, you get so
absorbed by what you\'re doing

00:25:15.910 --> 00:25:21.660 align:middle line:84%
that everything else
is not important.

00:25:21.660 --> 00:25:22.910 align:middle line:90%
It keeps you sharp.

00:25:22.910 --> 00:25:25.590 align:middle line:90%

00:25:25.590 --> 00:25:26.840 align:middle line:90%
It keeps you focused.

00:25:26.840 --> 00:25:29.360 align:middle line:90%

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I\'m always out there looking,
looking for things to paint or

00:25:32.620 --> 00:25:35.730 align:middle line:84%
just seeing little different
things that are meaningful to

00:25:35.730 --> 00:25:38.920 align:middle line:84%
me as an artist and are
very important.

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And so I\'m always on high.

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I make the colors a little
more colorful.

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I make the buildings a
little less straight.

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I lose the rigidity that
is in everyday life.

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And this is how I feel.

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Tear that wall down that keeps
you from it, that keeps you

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from painting, and
abandon yourself.

00:26:02.190 --> 00:26:03.440 align:middle line:90%
And just do it.

00:26:03.440 --> 00:26:07.050 align:middle line:90%

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When people ask me how old I am,
I tell them how old I am.

00:26:11.036 --> 00:26:12.440 align:middle line:90%
And they say, no.

00:26:12.440 --> 00:26:15.430 align:middle line:90%
And I say, yes.

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They tell me it\'s genes.

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But I think it\'s possibly
more than that.

00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:26.040 align:middle line:84%
There\'s too much mystery around
that I still want to

00:26:26.040 --> 00:26:30.840 align:middle line:84%
get at, that I have
not gotten to.

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I still want to learn how to
paint better than I have.

00:26:34.230 --> 00:26:37.740 align:middle line:84%
I still want to be able to
write better poetry, more

00:26:37.740 --> 00:26:40.910 align:middle line:84%
incisive poetry than
I have written.

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I want to be able to do
my sculpture faster.

00:26:46.730 --> 00:26:52.040 align:middle line:84%
I have gone through cycles of
depressions where I actually

00:26:52.040 --> 00:26:54.250 align:middle line:90%
could not work.

00:26:54.250 --> 00:26:59.190 align:middle line:90%
And then something breaks.

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What it is, I haven\'t
the slightest idea.

00:27:02.420 --> 00:27:04.520 align:middle line:90%
But the resurgence comes back.

00:27:04.520 --> 00:27:05.480 align:middle line:90%
And I go back to work.

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And I start with a
tiny little idea.

00:27:09.200 --> 00:27:12.950 align:middle line:84%
And I\'ll go back to work on a
piece of sculpture or a poem.

00:27:12.950 --> 00:27:16.100 align:middle line:84%
A thought will come in,
and I\'ll write a poem.

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And I think that supports
my life.

00:27:19.445 --> 00:27:23.930 align:middle line:84%
I had started this self portrait
of me at the canvas

00:27:23.930 --> 00:27:26.610 align:middle line:90%
when I was about 40 years old.

00:27:26.610 --> 00:27:29.410 align:middle line:90%
And I had never finished it.

00:27:29.410 --> 00:27:32.045 align:middle line:84%
The background was
very different.

00:27:32.045 --> 00:27:36.830 align:middle line:84%
And when I rediscovered the
canvas by going through a

00:27:36.830 --> 00:27:40.610 align:middle line:90%
bunch of junk, I looked at it.

00:27:40.610 --> 00:27:43.100 align:middle line:84%
And it didn\'t make any
sense to me anymore.

00:27:43.100 --> 00:27:50.250 align:middle line:84%
So I suddenly got the idea of
having me as I am now looking

00:27:50.250 --> 00:27:59.070 align:middle line:90%
at the younger one.

00:27:59.070 --> 00:28:00.580 align:middle line:84%
And that\'s what I\'m
working on now.

00:28:00.580 --> 00:28:01.990 align:middle line:90%
It\'s not finished.

00:28:01.990 --> 00:28:05.490 align:middle line:90%
And it still has a ways to go.

00:28:05.490 --> 00:28:11.050 align:middle line:84%
So far as the future is
concerned, just let it come,

00:28:11.050 --> 00:28:12.300 align:middle line:90%
whatever comes.

00:28:12.300 --> 00:28:16.520 align:middle line:90%

00:28:16.520 --> 00:28:21.640 align:middle line:84%
The older people are, the more
range there is in how we look.

00:28:21.640 --> 00:28:25.150 align:middle line:84%
There is a huge range of how
people look at 70, nothing

00:28:25.150 --> 00:28:29.390 align:middle line:84%
like the narrow little band of
how people look at one, or

00:28:29.390 --> 00:28:31.370 align:middle line:90%
even 20, or 50.

00:28:31.370 --> 00:28:33.640 align:middle line:90%
Youth is for the young.

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I\'m probably not the first
one to notice that.

00:28:35.960 --> 00:28:38.220 align:middle line:84%
But it\'s appropriate
that the little

00:28:38.220 --> 00:28:40.090 align:middle line:90%
children look like puppies.

00:28:40.090 --> 00:28:40.800 align:middle line:90%
They are.

00:28:40.800 --> 00:28:44.310 align:middle line:84%
And it\'s appropriate that the
young ones getting ready to

00:28:44.310 --> 00:28:47.810 align:middle line:84%
burst with their babies and
looking forward to their adult

00:28:47.810 --> 00:28:49.700 align:middle line:90%
life have a certain look.

00:28:49.700 --> 00:28:52.570 align:middle line:84%
And that is not the look that
I\'m interested in having, or

00:28:52.570 --> 00:28:53.660 align:middle line:90%
that my peers have.

00:28:53.660 --> 00:28:54.940 align:middle line:90%
I\'m a grandmother now.

00:28:54.940 --> 00:28:59.660 align:middle line:84%
And I think that that\'s had a
strong influence on how I feel

00:28:59.660 --> 00:29:04.510 align:middle line:84%
about age appropriate
appearance.

00:29:04.510 --> 00:29:09.140 align:middle line:84%
I\'m much more interested in the
changes I\'m going through

00:29:09.140 --> 00:29:15.150 align:middle line:84%
as an adventure, like it\'s an
adventure that I\'ve never had.

00:29:15.150 --> 00:29:16.780 align:middle line:90%
I will never have again.

00:29:16.780 --> 00:29:19.616 align:middle line:90%
I might as well have it, too.

00:29:19.616 --> 00:29:21.350 align:middle line:84%
It\'s like youth is
an adventure.

00:29:21.350 --> 00:29:25.150 align:middle line:90%
Old age, to me, is probably the

00:29:25.150 --> 00:29:26.710 align:middle line:90%
most interesting adventure.

00:29:26.710 --> 00:29:33.800 align:middle line:90%

00:29:33.800 --> 00:29:36.130 align:middle line:84%
In my kitchen, I\'ve got
this big mirror.

00:29:36.130 --> 00:29:38.620 align:middle line:84%
And I end up looking
at myself.

00:29:38.620 --> 00:29:42.200 align:middle line:84%
That\'s what I\'m confronted
with right away.

00:29:42.200 --> 00:29:43.870 align:middle line:90%
And I look at my face.

00:29:43.870 --> 00:29:46.150 align:middle line:90%
And I look at my eyes.

00:29:46.150 --> 00:29:49.610 align:middle line:84%
And I see they\'re puffy
and that I have

00:29:49.610 --> 00:29:51.770 align:middle line:90%
bags under my eyes.

00:29:51.770 --> 00:29:57.480 align:middle line:84%
And I start worrying like are
they ever going to get back to

00:29:57.480 --> 00:29:59.450 align:middle line:90%
normal again?

00:29:59.450 --> 00:30:04.810 align:middle line:90%
And that\'s it.

00:30:04.810 --> 00:30:09.550 align:middle line:84%
I mean, sometimes I
feel devastated.

00:30:09.550 --> 00:30:12.835 align:middle line:84%
And sometimes I feel
just curious.

00:30:12.835 --> 00:30:15.618 align:middle line:90%

00:30:15.618 --> 00:30:21.940 align:middle line:84%
Or sometimes I just think
well, so be it.

00:30:21.940 --> 00:30:24.490 align:middle line:90%
That\'s what it looks like.

00:30:24.490 --> 00:30:26.920 align:middle line:84%
But I tell you, that\'s not
what it feels like.

00:30:26.920 --> 00:30:29.500 align:middle line:84%
I wanted to sit right
next to this rug.

00:30:29.500 --> 00:30:32.100 align:middle line:90%
It\'s an old, ancient rug.

00:30:32.100 --> 00:30:34.560 align:middle line:90%
And it\'s all, how do you say--

00:30:34.560 --> 00:30:36.090 align:middle line:90%
Worn?

00:30:36.090 --> 00:30:36.820 align:middle line:90%
Worn.

00:30:36.820 --> 00:30:39.130 align:middle line:90%
It\'s lost its fluff.

00:30:39.130 --> 00:30:44.910 align:middle line:84%
But as a result, the colors come
out, and the lines, and

00:30:44.910 --> 00:30:47.765 align:middle line:90%
the details show.

00:30:47.765 --> 00:30:52.000 align:middle line:84%
And I think it\'s becoming more
and more beautiful as its

00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:52.790 align:middle line:90%
getting older.

00:30:52.790 --> 00:31:00.340 align:middle line:84%
That\'s the way I feel, that
the older I get, the more

00:31:00.340 --> 00:31:05.000 align:middle line:84%
interesting in looks
and beautiful, too.

00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:06.500 align:middle line:90%
And I think aging is that.

00:31:06.500 --> 00:31:10.850 align:middle line:84%
It\'s the fluff disappearing
and the essence showing.

00:31:10.850 --> 00:31:12.300 align:middle line:90%
Hey, how do you like that?

00:31:12.300 --> 00:31:16.730 align:middle line:90%

00:31:16.730 --> 00:31:19.610 align:middle line:84%
One of the biggest advantages
that Senior Softball USA

00:31:19.610 --> 00:31:23.280 align:middle line:84%
offers to the sport today are
the rules that help protect

00:31:23.280 --> 00:31:26.210 align:middle line:84%
seniors from unnecessary contact
and competition.

00:31:26.210 --> 00:31:28.190 align:middle line:84%
So some of the rules just
basically that we have

00:31:28.190 --> 00:31:31.090 align:middle line:84%
established that have been
accepted all over the country

00:31:31.090 --> 00:31:33.310 align:middle line:90%
are a two first base system.

00:31:33.310 --> 00:31:35.745 align:middle line:84%
One base for the first baseman
to stand on and the other for

00:31:35.745 --> 00:31:37.900 align:middle line:90%
the runner to run across.

00:31:37.900 --> 00:31:41.310 align:middle line:84%
And the other major change in
the bases is a scoring plate

00:31:41.310 --> 00:31:42.990 align:middle line:90%
and a home plate.

00:31:42.990 --> 00:31:45.790 align:middle line:84%
There\'s a scoring plate that the
runner runs across that is

00:31:45.790 --> 00:31:48.152 align:middle line:84%
a few feet away from
the batter\'s plate.

00:31:48.152 --> 00:31:51.589 align:middle line:90%

00:31:51.589 --> 00:31:55.810 align:middle line:84%
In addition, the overrun rule,
in effect at first base, also

00:31:55.810 --> 00:31:58.635 align:middle line:84%
applies to second
and third base.

00:31:58.635 --> 00:32:03.530 align:middle line:84%
This means runners never
have to slide.

00:32:03.530 --> 00:32:06.290 align:middle line:84%
In slow pitch softball, the ball
must be pitched with a

00:32:06.290 --> 00:32:10.590 align:middle line:84%
prescribed amount of arc and is
called a strike if it hits

00:32:10.590 --> 00:32:14.640 align:middle line:84%
any part of the enlarged
home plate.

00:32:14.640 --> 00:32:15.520 align:middle line:90%
Here we go now.

00:32:15.520 --> 00:32:17.320 align:middle line:90%
Here we go now.

00:32:17.320 --> 00:32:19.720 align:middle line:84%
In addition to the rules and
regulations of senior

00:32:19.720 --> 00:32:23.480 align:middle line:84%
softball, some unique
equipment is used.

00:32:23.480 --> 00:32:25.600 align:middle line:90%
We have our own softball now.

00:32:25.600 --> 00:32:27.710 align:middle line:90%
We use a 12 inch for the men.

00:32:27.710 --> 00:32:30.200 align:middle line:84%
And we made special balls
for the women,

00:32:30.200 --> 00:32:34.000 align:middle line:90%
which they use 11 inch.

00:32:34.000 --> 00:32:36.420 align:middle line:84%
And most softball sluggers
prefer aluminum

00:32:36.420 --> 00:32:39.297 align:middle line:90%
bats rather than wood.

00:32:39.297 --> 00:32:39.786 align:middle line:90%
Come on.

00:32:39.786 --> 00:32:41.036 align:middle line:90%
Go home.

00:32:41.036 --> 00:32:43.210 align:middle line:90%

00:32:43.210 --> 00:32:44.970 align:middle line:84%
These special rules
and equipment

00:32:44.970 --> 00:32:46.830 align:middle line:90%
minimize the risk of injury.

00:32:46.830 --> 00:32:50.150 align:middle line:84%
And players find that the health
related benefits far

00:32:50.150 --> 00:32:52.390 align:middle line:84%
outweigh the minor risk
of getting hurt.

00:32:52.390 --> 00:32:55.370 align:middle line:90%

00:32:55.370 --> 00:32:59.070 align:middle line:84%
Women and men to maintain
physical activity delays the

00:32:59.070 --> 00:33:03.240 align:middle line:84%
onset of some of the aches and
pains that generally are

00:33:03.240 --> 00:33:05.570 align:middle line:90%
attributed to getting older.

00:33:05.570 --> 00:33:05.930 align:middle line:90%
I\'m getting old.

00:33:05.930 --> 00:33:07.420 align:middle line:90%
And that makes a difference.

00:33:07.420 --> 00:33:09.710 align:middle line:84%
But I\'m still in real
good shape.

00:33:09.710 --> 00:33:13.320 align:middle line:84%
I thought that after I got to be
62 that I wouldn\'t be able

00:33:13.320 --> 00:33:14.030 align:middle line:90%
to do anything.

00:33:14.030 --> 00:33:16.720 align:middle line:90%
I\'m 150 pounds soaking wet.

00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:19.250 align:middle line:84%
And the only thing, I
got one bad knee.

00:33:19.250 --> 00:33:20.030 align:middle line:90%
But that don\'t bother me.

00:33:20.030 --> 00:33:21.260 align:middle line:90%
Nothing\'s going to stop me.

00:33:21.260 --> 00:33:25.060 align:middle line:84%
Even with a small physical
handicap of some sort, you can

00:33:25.060 --> 00:33:26.330 align:middle line:90%
excel in it anyway.

00:33:26.330 --> 00:33:27.880 align:middle line:84%
They were ready to pull
the plug on him

00:33:27.880 --> 00:33:30.120 align:middle line:90%
about two months ago.

00:33:30.120 --> 00:33:31.112 align:middle line:90%
Really?

00:33:31.112 --> 00:33:32.800 align:middle line:90%
It\'s amazing.

00:33:32.800 --> 00:33:35.530 align:middle line:84%
We\'ve had so many guys
with bypasses.

00:33:35.530 --> 00:33:38.715 align:middle line:84%
And I would say, within two
weeks, step back out on the

00:33:38.715 --> 00:33:39.680 align:middle line:90%
diamond playing ball.

00:33:39.680 --> 00:33:42.430 align:middle line:84%
Do you know in \'78, I
had a heart attack.

00:33:42.430 --> 00:33:44.840 align:middle line:90%
I had a heart attack in \'64.

00:33:44.840 --> 00:33:46.870 align:middle line:90%
But I continued playing.

00:33:46.870 --> 00:33:51.630 align:middle line:84%
When I came out here and see
the 70, 80, and 90-year-old

00:33:51.630 --> 00:33:54.710 align:middle line:84%
men still playing softball,
nobody\'s going to stop me from

00:33:54.710 --> 00:33:56.400 align:middle line:84%
playing until I\'m
ready to stop.

00:33:56.400 --> 00:33:58.630 align:middle line:84%
Get the hell away from
that tube and

00:33:58.630 --> 00:34:00.350 align:middle line:90%
get out and be active.

00:34:00.350 --> 00:34:03.110 align:middle line:84%
And work the old mind
and the body both.

00:34:03.110 --> 00:34:04.420 align:middle line:90%
Good bunch of guys.

00:34:04.420 --> 00:34:06.010 align:middle line:90%
Good atmosphere.

00:34:06.010 --> 00:34:07.270 align:middle line:90%
Beautiful sunshine.

00:34:07.270 --> 00:34:09.730 align:middle line:90%
Great outdoors.

00:34:09.730 --> 00:34:11.889 align:middle line:90%
Live longer.

00:34:11.889 --> 00:34:14.020 align:middle line:84%
We are from all over
the states.

00:34:14.020 --> 00:34:16.429 align:middle line:90%
Jeanette\'s from Wisconsin.

00:34:16.429 --> 00:34:18.420 align:middle line:84%
I\'m from the state
of Washington.

00:34:18.420 --> 00:34:19.360 align:middle line:90%
Norma\'s from Oregon.

00:34:19.360 --> 00:34:21.020 align:middle line:90%
Julie\'s from South Dakota.

00:34:21.020 --> 00:34:24.340 align:middle line:90%
We have three from Canada.

00:34:24.340 --> 00:34:25.590 align:middle line:90%
And we get together.

00:34:25.590 --> 00:34:27.679 align:middle line:84%
We play January through
February.

00:34:27.679 --> 00:34:29.909 align:middle line:84%
And we took second in our
division last year.

00:34:29.909 --> 00:34:31.466 align:middle line:90%
We just have a lot of fun.

00:34:31.466 --> 00:34:35.199 align:middle line:90%

00:34:35.199 --> 00:34:38.170 align:middle line:84%
One of the largest
association\'s, Senior Softball

00:34:38.170 --> 00:34:42.310 align:middle line:84%
USA, is devoted to helping
organize teams from all over

00:34:42.310 --> 00:34:43.530 align:middle line:90%
the country.

00:34:43.530 --> 00:34:46.190 align:middle line:84%
One of the things about this
program that\'s so unique, and

00:34:46.190 --> 00:34:48.400 align:middle line:84%
I think that to why people
like it so well, is we\'re

00:34:48.400 --> 00:34:52.631 align:middle line:84%
divided into age divisions, a
five year age groups of 50,

00:34:52.631 --> 00:34:57.680 align:middle line:84%
55, 60, 65, 70, 75, and even
this year 80-year-olds.

00:34:57.680 --> 00:34:59.930 align:middle line:90%
Let\'s get ahead.

00:34:59.930 --> 00:35:03.440 align:middle line:84%
There\'s over 1.6 million seniors
playing softball.

00:35:03.440 --> 00:35:05.540 align:middle line:90%
That includes men and women.

00:35:05.540 --> 00:35:09.000 align:middle line:84%
That means that we\'re the only
sport in the world where you

00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:11.730 align:middle line:84%
can be a superstar
every five years.

00:35:11.730 --> 00:35:14.710 align:middle line:84%
Before we started promoting
Senior Softball, people our

00:35:14.710 --> 00:35:16.720 align:middle line:90%
age would retire.

00:35:16.720 --> 00:35:19.740 align:middle line:84%
They just were looking for
some sort of excitement.

00:35:19.740 --> 00:35:21.820 align:middle line:84%
Now we have people writing
us letters.

00:35:21.820 --> 00:35:24.680 align:middle line:84%
They say softball has given
us a new lease on life.

00:35:24.680 --> 00:35:26.840 align:middle line:84%
They have to stay in
good health, too.

00:35:26.840 --> 00:35:27.798 align:middle line:90%
Our people are active.

00:35:27.798 --> 00:35:30.950 align:middle line:84%
And they\'re healthy because
they have to keep up with

00:35:30.950 --> 00:35:32.200 align:middle line:90%
everybody and be competitive.

00:35:32.200 --> 00:35:34.790 align:middle line:90%

00:35:34.790 --> 00:35:37.950 align:middle line:84%
I plan to live to
at least 95%.

00:35:37.950 --> 00:35:40.660 align:middle line:84%
One of the reason is that
I\'ve got great genes.

00:35:40.660 --> 00:35:43.270 align:middle line:84%
It would be impossible to study
longevity without at

00:35:43.270 --> 00:35:46.380 align:middle line:84%
least understanding its
relationship to genetics.

00:35:46.380 --> 00:35:48.680 align:middle line:84%
For years the medical community
believed that our

00:35:48.680 --> 00:35:51.740 align:middle line:84%
genetic code played the most
fundamental role in

00:35:51.740 --> 00:35:53.800 align:middle line:90%
determining how long we lived.

00:35:53.800 --> 00:35:56.530 align:middle line:84%
We now know that although
genetics is an important

00:35:56.530 --> 00:36:00.280 align:middle line:84%
factor, it is no longer
the most important.

00:36:00.280 --> 00:36:03.510 align:middle line:90%
Genetic components of aging.

00:36:03.510 --> 00:36:07.200 align:middle line:84%
We read reports of people
in their hundreds.

00:36:07.200 --> 00:36:10.380 align:middle line:84%
Very frequently associated with
those individuals is the

00:36:10.380 --> 00:36:14.880 align:middle line:84%
fact that their parents died
at a very old age.

00:36:14.880 --> 00:36:18.490 align:middle line:84%
And they have siblings that are
living to very old ages.

00:36:18.490 --> 00:36:21.900 align:middle line:84%
Now is this due to the fact that
they\'re eating well, or

00:36:21.900 --> 00:36:24.740 align:middle line:84%
they\'re not smoking, or they\'re
in an environment

00:36:24.740 --> 00:36:28.170 align:middle line:84%
where one doesn\'t have toxins
in the environment?

00:36:28.170 --> 00:36:30.960 align:middle line:84%
Or is it related to the fact
that they\'re genetic

00:36:30.960 --> 00:36:37.340 align:middle line:84%
composition is such that they
are protecting themselves

00:36:37.340 --> 00:36:41.110 align:middle line:84%
without external forces
from things that

00:36:41.110 --> 00:36:43.040 align:middle line:90%
may impact on others?

00:36:43.040 --> 00:36:47.750 align:middle line:84%
Conversely, individuals who get
ill at a very early age

00:36:47.750 --> 00:36:51.120 align:middle line:84%
may have what might be referred
to as the wrong

00:36:51.120 --> 00:36:52.990 align:middle line:90%
genetic background.

00:36:52.990 --> 00:36:55.290 align:middle line:84%
We know very little
about this.

00:36:55.290 --> 00:37:00.850 align:middle line:84%
We now know that genes play a
role in how long an individual

00:37:00.850 --> 00:37:02.260 align:middle line:90%
can potentially live.

00:37:02.260 --> 00:37:07.110 align:middle line:84%
So for the amount of variation
that we see in life span for

00:37:07.110 --> 00:37:10.550 align:middle line:84%
individuals that are older
than 80 years old--

00:37:10.550 --> 00:37:17.600 align:middle line:84%
studies with human twins done in
Denmark recently shows that

00:37:17.600 --> 00:37:22.970 align:middle line:84%
of all the variation about 20
to 30% of it is genetic.

00:37:22.970 --> 00:37:27.560 align:middle line:84%
That means that 70% of the
variation in life span-- that

00:37:27.560 --> 00:37:29.200 align:middle line:84%
is the difference between
how long you

00:37:29.200 --> 00:37:30.620 align:middle line:90%
might live versus me--

00:37:30.620 --> 00:37:33.610 align:middle line:90%
is due to non genetic factors.

00:37:33.610 --> 00:37:35.710 align:middle line:84%
This is encouraging because that
means that there are a

00:37:35.710 --> 00:37:38.660 align:middle line:84%
lot of things that can be
potentially changed or

00:37:38.660 --> 00:37:40.780 align:middle line:84%
manipulated throughout
your life span.

00:37:40.780 --> 00:37:43.310 align:middle line:84%
This is not stuff that you do
necessarily near the end of

00:37:43.310 --> 00:37:45.780 align:middle line:84%
your life but throughout your
lifespan that might put you at

00:37:45.780 --> 00:37:49.060 align:middle line:84%
the high end of that range
versus the low end.

00:37:49.060 --> 00:37:54.070 align:middle line:84%
There are diseases that tend to
run in families at times.

00:37:54.070 --> 00:37:57.460 align:middle line:84%
And those are important ones
to pay attention to.

00:37:57.460 --> 00:38:00.610 align:middle line:84%
But in terms of simple life
expectancy and how long you

00:38:00.610 --> 00:38:04.770 align:middle line:84%
can be expected to live, the
issues of lifestyle,

00:38:04.770 --> 00:38:09.400 align:middle line:84%
preventing preventable
illnesses, and being active

00:38:09.400 --> 00:38:13.580 align:middle line:84%
both physically and mentally are
much more important than

00:38:13.580 --> 00:38:17.810 align:middle line:84%
the genetic factors involved
in how people\'s parents or

00:38:17.810 --> 00:38:20.630 align:middle line:84%
grandparents might have
lived and died.

00:38:20.630 --> 00:38:23.660 align:middle line:84%
The combination of these factors
has led to significant

00:38:23.660 --> 00:38:27.210 align:middle line:84%
changes in the demographics
of our aging population.

00:38:27.210 --> 00:38:32.520 align:middle line:84%
January 1, 1994, the Census
Bureau reported that the

00:38:32.520 --> 00:38:37.020 align:middle line:84%
fastest growing segment of the
United States population were

00:38:37.020 --> 00:38:40.280 align:middle line:90%
centenarians, those over 100.

00:38:40.280 --> 00:38:42.190 align:middle line:84%
You have to be a little bit
careful when you talk about

00:38:42.190 --> 00:38:46.990 align:middle line:84%
centenarians and use the
commonly available data.

00:38:46.990 --> 00:38:50.190 align:middle line:84%
We\'ve found, in the United
States for example, that if

00:38:50.190 --> 00:38:54.770 align:middle line:84%
you take a census and you ask,
you get an age distribution.

00:38:54.770 --> 00:38:59.500 align:middle line:84%
You may have 35,000 people say
their age 100 or over.

00:38:59.500 --> 00:39:03.290 align:middle line:84%
There is a good reason to be
skeptical of many of those

00:39:03.290 --> 00:39:08.410 align:middle line:84%
responses because for some
reason, people do tend to

00:39:08.410 --> 00:39:09.790 align:middle line:90%
overstate their age.

00:39:09.790 --> 00:39:12.400 align:middle line:84%
I\'ve spoken to thousands
of centenarians.

00:39:12.400 --> 00:39:15.200 align:middle line:84%
And beyond speaking to them,
I\'ve known so many of them

00:39:15.200 --> 00:39:18.440 align:middle line:84%
very well and do know
so many very well.

00:39:18.440 --> 00:39:21.820 align:middle line:84%
And what I\'ve noticed is that
there are centenarians

00:39:21.820 --> 00:39:22.680 align:middle line:90%
everywhere.

00:39:22.680 --> 00:39:24.590 align:middle line:84%
Centenarians come from
all walks of life.

00:39:24.590 --> 00:39:26.960 align:middle line:84%
Centenarians are living
all over the country.

00:39:26.960 --> 00:39:29.210 align:middle line:84%
I think if you\'re an older
person alive today, you

00:39:29.210 --> 00:39:34.430 align:middle line:84%
probably want to be an American
unless you\'re poor or

00:39:34.430 --> 00:39:36.740 align:middle line:84%
unless you don\'t have health
insurance, in which case

00:39:36.740 --> 00:39:39.470 align:middle line:84%
Western Europe is probably
a better place to be.

00:39:39.470 --> 00:39:42.640 align:middle line:84%
Japan, for example, has the
longest life expectancy of any

00:39:42.640 --> 00:39:44.170 align:middle line:90%
country in the world.

00:39:44.170 --> 00:39:48.080 align:middle line:84%
The average now is
over 80 years.

00:39:48.080 --> 00:39:49.940 align:middle line:84%
Women are up to somewhere
in the vicinity

00:39:49.940 --> 00:39:52.170 align:middle line:90%
of 83, 84, on average.

00:39:52.170 --> 00:39:55.950 align:middle line:84%
And a Japanese male baby born
today can expect to

00:39:55.950 --> 00:39:57.550 align:middle line:90%
live about 77 years.

00:39:57.550 --> 00:40:02.440 align:middle line:84%
The second longest live people
in the world are the Swiss,

00:40:02.440 --> 00:40:05.160 align:middle line:90%
life expectancy 78.

00:40:05.160 --> 00:40:08.470 align:middle line:84%
And then we have any number of
countries in the 77 club.

00:40:08.470 --> 00:40:12.120 align:middle line:84%
That would include Greece,
Norway, Austria.

00:40:12.120 --> 00:40:16.360 align:middle line:84%
And then the United States
is down just over 76.

00:40:16.360 --> 00:40:19.040 align:middle line:84%
So all of those are very
small differences.

00:40:19.040 --> 00:40:23.030 align:middle line:84%
And so it suggests that there
is no people or country that

00:40:23.030 --> 00:40:25.290 align:middle line:84%
has some kind of miraculous
result.

00:40:25.290 --> 00:40:27.360 align:middle line:84%
These are the best results
probably ever achieved in

00:40:27.360 --> 00:40:28.570 align:middle line:90%
human history.

00:40:28.570 --> 00:40:32.500 align:middle line:84%
And only about 75 nations have
ever even achieved the 75 year

00:40:32.500 --> 00:40:33.780 align:middle line:90%
life expectancy.

00:40:33.780 --> 00:40:36.840 align:middle line:84%
So we can\'t go to some remote
corner of Tibet and find a

00:40:36.840 --> 00:40:39.010 align:middle line:84%
country where everybody, because
they had a yogurt

00:40:39.010 --> 00:40:40.580 align:middle line:90%
diet, lived to 100.

00:40:40.580 --> 00:40:42.040 align:middle line:90%
Those people don\'t exist.

00:40:42.040 --> 00:40:44.830 align:middle line:84%
In fact, the only studies that
were done in these remote

00:40:44.830 --> 00:40:47.340 align:middle line:84%
areas, it turned out to people,
the real problem they

00:40:47.340 --> 00:40:49.880 align:middle line:84%
had was they really couldn\'t
remember how old they were.

00:40:49.880 --> 00:40:53.130 align:middle line:84%
We do, interestingly, see
differences between people

00:40:53.130 --> 00:40:56.350 align:middle line:84%
living in the towns and living
in the countryside.

00:40:56.350 --> 00:40:59.170 align:middle line:84%
There are so many differences
there that it\'s hard to be

00:40:59.170 --> 00:41:02.410 align:middle line:84%
absolutely sure that it is this
silver bullet makes a

00:41:02.410 --> 00:41:03.660 align:middle line:90%
difference.

00:41:03.660 --> 00:41:06.700 align:middle line:84%
Although advances of modern
technology and industry have

00:41:06.700 --> 00:41:11.220 align:middle line:84%
increased our longevity, it has
also created new threats.

00:41:11.220 --> 00:41:13.190 align:middle line:84%
We see big geographic
differences.

00:41:13.190 --> 00:41:14.840 align:middle line:90%
We have a stroke belt.

00:41:14.840 --> 00:41:17.040 align:middle line:84%
We\'re sitting in it
in Louisiana.

00:41:17.040 --> 00:41:19.990 align:middle line:84%
The stroke belt is in the
southeastern states.

00:41:19.990 --> 00:41:22.920 align:middle line:84%
It\'s the same place where we
have an end stage renal

00:41:22.920 --> 00:41:26.500 align:middle line:84%
disease belt, again a
vascular disorder.

00:41:26.500 --> 00:41:30.620 align:middle line:84%
Try to explain why is that,
what is it that makes this

00:41:30.620 --> 00:41:33.490 align:middle line:84%
part of the country less healthy
than say living in

00:41:33.490 --> 00:41:36.760 align:middle line:90%
Utah or Colorado.

00:41:36.760 --> 00:41:41.800 align:middle line:84%
Environmental impacts have a
serious, serious consequence

00:41:41.800 --> 00:41:43.650 align:middle line:90%
on longevity.

00:41:43.650 --> 00:41:46.310 align:middle line:84%
One of the biggest problems
right now are the pesticides,

00:41:46.310 --> 00:41:50.320 align:middle line:84%
insecticides, and herbicides
that are used in agriculture

00:41:50.320 --> 00:41:54.080 align:middle line:84%
and also on homes, and gardens,
lawn and gardens

00:41:54.080 --> 00:41:55.050 align:middle line:90%
around the United States.

00:41:55.050 --> 00:41:59.000 align:middle line:84%
These organo-chlorine type
molecules get into the food

00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:02.810 align:middle line:84%
and water supply and have a
tremendously damaging impact

00:42:02.810 --> 00:42:04.940 align:middle line:90%
on out immune systems.

00:42:04.940 --> 00:42:07.035 align:middle line:84%
And it\'s a major,
major problem.

00:42:07.035 --> 00:42:12.640 align:middle line:90%

00:42:12.640 --> 00:42:15.970 align:middle line:84%
Along with proper nutrition,
research proves that adequate

00:42:15.970 --> 00:42:18.150 align:middle line:84%
exercise is crucial
to maintaining a

00:42:18.150 --> 00:42:19.620 align:middle line:90%
long, healthy life.

00:42:19.620 --> 00:42:22.940 align:middle line:84%
For the past four decades, the
Pritikin Longevity Center,

00:42:22.940 --> 00:42:26.250 align:middle line:84%
founded by Nathan Pritikin, has
incorporated both into a

00:42:26.250 --> 00:42:28.410 align:middle line:84%
successful philosophy
recognized

00:42:28.410 --> 00:42:29.795 align:middle line:90%
throughout the world.

00:42:29.795 --> 00:42:32.290 align:middle line:84%
When we started our
program, this was

00:42:32.290 --> 00:42:34.280 align:middle line:90%
the last chance hotel.

00:42:34.280 --> 00:42:36.410 align:middle line:84%
We had people coming in with a
foot in the grave and one on a

00:42:36.410 --> 00:42:38.310 align:middle line:90%
banana peel.

00:42:38.310 --> 00:42:41.420 align:middle line:84%
Serious cardiacs, dead end
diabetics and hypertensives

00:42:41.420 --> 00:42:43.990 align:middle line:84%
that were really beyond what
conventional medicine

00:42:43.990 --> 00:42:45.620 align:middle line:90%
could do for them.

00:42:45.620 --> 00:42:47.890 align:middle line:84%
But what\'s happened is
over the years--

00:42:47.890 --> 00:42:50.430 align:middle line:84%
and I\'m very happy to see this--
we\'re getting more of a

00:42:50.430 --> 00:42:53.700 align:middle line:84%
preventive audience, people in
their 40s and 50s that really

00:42:53.700 --> 00:42:55.920 align:middle line:84%
have nothing wrong with them,
a couple pounds to lose,

00:42:55.920 --> 00:42:58.600 align:middle line:84%
little bit of cholesterol to
drop, are coming in and doing

00:42:58.600 --> 00:43:01.710 align:middle line:84%
something about it before they
get to that end stage.

00:43:01.710 --> 00:43:04.110 align:middle line:84%
And we run you through a
medical, a stress treadmill, a

00:43:04.110 --> 00:43:07.370 align:middle line:84%
cardiac, and an orthopedic exam
so that we can put you in

00:43:07.370 --> 00:43:10.610 align:middle line:84%
a program that you\'ll get some
benefits of and not get hurt.

00:43:10.610 --> 00:43:13.220 align:middle line:84%
That\'s really important because
for many Americans,

00:43:13.220 --> 00:43:15.350 align:middle line:84%
their first sign of heart
disease is sudden death.

00:43:15.350 --> 00:43:18.040 align:middle line:84%
And we don\'t want that happening
around here.

00:43:18.040 --> 00:43:21.300 align:middle line:84%
The other thing that we do is
we eat all the time here.

00:43:21.300 --> 00:43:23.410 align:middle line:90%
We eat six meals a day.

00:43:23.410 --> 00:43:25.500 align:middle line:84%
When you\'re eating food that\'s
fairly low in calorie

00:43:25.500 --> 00:43:28.500 align:middle line:84%
concentration because it\'s low
in fat, you have to eat

00:43:28.500 --> 00:43:29.180 align:middle line:90%
frequently.

00:43:29.180 --> 00:43:31.400 align:middle line:84%
Meal frequency is extremely
important.

00:43:31.400 --> 00:43:36.030 align:middle line:84%
It has benefits of lowering
insulin level, triglycerides,

00:43:36.030 --> 00:43:37.870 align:middle line:84%
blood fats, cholesterol
seems to drop.

00:43:37.870 --> 00:43:41.210 align:middle line:84%
And it also helps tremendously
with weight loss.

00:43:41.210 --> 00:43:43.690 align:middle line:84%
Yet with all the years of
accumulated data on the

00:43:43.690 --> 00:43:46.750 align:middle line:84%
benefits of nutrition on
longevity, there are still

00:43:46.750 --> 00:43:51.050 align:middle line:84%
many mysteries surrounding its
effectiveness on anti aging.

00:43:51.050 --> 00:43:53.970 align:middle line:84%
When I started looking at
centenarians and their diet, I

00:43:53.970 --> 00:43:57.320 align:middle line:84%
really thought I would find
specific foods or specific

00:43:57.320 --> 00:44:00.830 align:middle line:84%
nutrients that they ate
more of or less

00:44:00.830 --> 00:44:02.570 align:middle line:90%
of than other people.

00:44:02.570 --> 00:44:05.730 align:middle line:84%
And what we found it is
not a simple recipe.

00:44:05.730 --> 00:44:08.230 align:middle line:84%
People eat a wide variety
of foods,

00:44:08.230 --> 00:44:09.220 align:middle line:90%
regardless of their age.

00:44:09.220 --> 00:44:10.915 align:middle line:84%
And it\'s certainly true
of centenarians.

00:44:10.915 --> 00:44:14.970 align:middle line:90%

00:44:14.970 --> 00:44:17.570 align:middle line:84%
There is one aspect of nutrition
research that has

00:44:17.570 --> 00:44:20.290 align:middle line:90%
produced amazing results.

00:44:20.290 --> 00:44:23.940 align:middle line:84%
Right now we have only one
manipulation that, in fact,

00:44:23.940 --> 00:44:25.050 align:middle line:90%
increases lifespan.

00:44:25.050 --> 00:44:26.980 align:middle line:84%
And that\'s caloric
restriction.

00:44:26.980 --> 00:44:29.680 align:middle line:84%
It\'s important to note that what
I\'m talking about here is

00:44:29.680 --> 00:44:34.570 align:middle line:84%
calorie restriction not total
consumption restriction.

00:44:34.570 --> 00:44:37.110 align:middle line:84%
That is what we do in these
experiments is we reduce the

00:44:37.110 --> 00:44:40.890 align:middle line:84%
number of calories that the
organism takes in, but we

00:44:40.890 --> 00:44:44.080 align:middle line:84%
maintain adequate nutrition
by maintaining the proper

00:44:44.080 --> 00:44:46.230 align:middle line:84%
vitamins, and minerals,
and so on.

00:44:46.230 --> 00:44:48.900 align:middle line:84%
We know at the human level,
if you just reduce total

00:44:48.900 --> 00:44:51.310 align:middle line:84%
consumption as much as I\'m
going to talk about for

00:44:51.310 --> 00:44:53.540 align:middle line:84%
calorie restriction, the
end product is fatal.

00:44:53.540 --> 00:44:55.390 align:middle line:90%
It\'s called anorexia.

00:44:55.390 --> 00:44:57.310 align:middle line:84%
And we wouldn\'t want to suggest
to people that that\'s

00:44:57.310 --> 00:44:58.970 align:middle line:90%
a good way to go.

00:44:58.970 --> 00:45:01.970 align:middle line:84%
But if we reduce in all the
organisms in which it\'s been

00:45:01.970 --> 00:45:05.670 align:middle line:84%
tried, which includes fruit
flies, mice, rats, dogs, and

00:45:05.670 --> 00:45:09.790 align:middle line:84%
we\'re currently studying this
is monkeys, in all the

00:45:09.790 --> 00:45:12.850 align:middle line:84%
experiments in which it\'s been
completely done, reduction in

00:45:12.850 --> 00:45:16.900 align:middle line:84%
calorie intake by 35 to
40% produces a 35%

00:45:16.900 --> 00:45:18.930 align:middle line:90%
increase in life span.

00:45:18.930 --> 00:45:20.380 align:middle line:90%
That\'s significant.

00:45:20.380 --> 00:45:26.830 align:middle line:84%
I was in Biosphere II as a
physician from September 1991

00:45:26.830 --> 00:45:29.440 align:middle line:90%
to September 1993.

00:45:29.440 --> 00:45:31.200 align:middle line:90%
Two years.

00:45:31.200 --> 00:45:34.970 align:middle line:84%
During that time, basically we
didn\'t have enough to eat in

00:45:34.970 --> 00:45:36.710 align:middle line:90%
terms of calories.

00:45:36.710 --> 00:45:40.050 align:middle line:84%
But we had a very high
quality diet.

00:45:40.050 --> 00:45:44.860 align:middle line:84%
This didn\'t really happen
by plan, but by chance.

00:45:44.860 --> 00:45:47.530 align:middle line:84%
We were not able to grow
as much food as we had

00:45:47.530 --> 00:45:48.990 align:middle line:90%
anticipated.

00:45:48.990 --> 00:45:52.710 align:middle line:84%
So we were on a low calorie,
nutrient dense diet.

00:45:52.710 --> 00:45:56.500 align:middle line:84%
And I recognize this in view
of my background to be an

00:45:56.500 --> 00:45:59.680 align:middle line:84%
experiment of nature
so-called.

00:45:59.680 --> 00:46:05.910 align:middle line:84%
So this was the first really
fully documented experiment,

00:46:05.910 --> 00:46:10.100 align:middle line:84%
let\'s say, of this kind of
nutrition in humans, that is

00:46:10.100 --> 00:46:12.850 align:middle line:84%
low calorie, nutrient
dense diet.

00:46:12.850 --> 00:46:16.280 align:middle line:84%
And what I found was that all
the changes that you see in

00:46:16.280 --> 00:46:19.440 align:middle line:84%
rodents and other animals
on such a diet

00:46:19.440 --> 00:46:22.220 align:middle line:90%
also obtained in human.

00:46:22.220 --> 00:46:27.710 align:middle line:84%
Our cholesterol dropped from a
pre-entry value of over 190 to

00:46:27.710 --> 00:46:30.640 align:middle line:90%
an average of 128.

00:46:30.640 --> 00:46:31.800 align:middle line:90%
Blood pressure fell.

00:46:31.800 --> 00:46:33.390 align:middle line:90%
Blood sugar fell.

00:46:33.390 --> 00:46:35.090 align:middle line:90%
Insulin decreased.

00:46:35.090 --> 00:46:38.780 align:middle line:84%
There are a number of hormonal
changes and other changes

00:46:38.780 --> 00:46:44.420 align:middle line:84%
that, physiologically, are
exactly like those shown by

00:46:44.420 --> 00:46:46.930 align:middle line:90%
animals on that kind of diet.

00:46:46.930 --> 00:46:50.730 align:middle line:84%
The animals lived a
great deal longer.

00:46:50.730 --> 00:46:55.620 align:middle line:84%
For example, the maximum life
span in mice is extended from

00:46:55.620 --> 00:47:00.430 align:middle line:84%
the usual value of 38 to 40
months, which is equivalent to

00:47:00.430 --> 00:47:05.640 align:middle line:84%
say 110 years in humans, out to
about 56 months, which is

00:47:05.640 --> 00:47:10.600 align:middle line:84%
equivalent to 150 or
170 in humans.

00:47:10.600 --> 00:47:14.080 align:middle line:84%
The calories are made up of high
quality foods, a lot of

00:47:14.080 --> 00:47:22.150 align:middle line:84%
vegetables, fruits, low fat milk
or nonfat fat milk, fish,

00:47:22.150 --> 00:47:26.880 align:middle line:84%
occasional red meat, things of
that nature, and grains, rice,

00:47:26.880 --> 00:47:31.700 align:middle line:84%
brown rice, sorghum,
barley, whatever.

00:47:31.700 --> 00:47:36.940 align:middle line:84%
One should not consume empty
calories, that is calories

00:47:36.940 --> 00:47:40.500 align:middle line:84%
that have no nutrient value
in terms of vitamins, and

00:47:40.500 --> 00:47:42.550 align:middle line:90%
minerals, and so forth.

00:47:42.550 --> 00:47:45.540 align:middle line:84%
And that means sugar,
particularly.

00:47:45.540 --> 00:47:46.660 align:middle line:90%
I\'m 73.

00:47:46.660 --> 00:47:49.440 align:middle line:84%
I\'ve been calorie restricted
for eight or 10 years.

00:47:49.440 --> 00:47:53.700 align:middle line:84%
This means, ideally, that
I just aged five years

00:47:53.700 --> 00:47:56.330 align:middle line:84%
physiologically during
that 10 years.

00:47:56.330 --> 00:47:58.600 align:middle line:84%
My general physiology
is quite good.

00:47:58.600 --> 00:48:01.800 align:middle line:84%
I have a blood cholesterol of
about 130 and blood pressure

00:48:01.800 --> 00:48:04.870 align:middle line:84%
of what it was when
I was 30 or 35.

00:48:04.870 --> 00:48:07.530 align:middle line:84%
So I seem to be in
very good health.

00:48:07.530 --> 00:48:11.030 align:middle line:90%

00:48:11.030 --> 00:48:14.920 align:middle line:84%
We don\'t really understand
why we age.

00:48:14.920 --> 00:48:19.490 align:middle line:84%
Making measurements of age and
thinking of it in the sort of

00:48:19.490 --> 00:48:23.220 align:middle line:84%
common terms that gee, aging
is about wrinkling of the

00:48:23.220 --> 00:48:27.840 align:middle line:84%
skin, and compressing of the
bone, and becoming weaker.

00:48:27.840 --> 00:48:30.010 align:middle line:90%
But that\'s really not aging.

00:48:30.010 --> 00:48:34.320 align:middle line:84%
In fact, when we look at
people who are aging

00:48:34.320 --> 00:48:39.480 align:middle line:84%
successfully, who are 80 years
old and as vigorous as any

00:48:39.480 --> 00:48:44.220 align:middle line:84%
50-year-old we know, we\'re
beginning to appreciate that

00:48:44.220 --> 00:48:48.120 align:middle line:84%
aging is not some simple
mechanism but one that\'s

00:48:48.120 --> 00:48:49.410 align:middle line:90%
really quite malleable.

00:48:49.410 --> 00:48:50.340 align:middle line:90%
It\'s very plastic.

00:48:50.340 --> 00:48:54.450 align:middle line:84%
We can really affect
the rate of aging.

00:48:54.450 --> 00:48:57.850 align:middle line:84%
Upon entering this world, all
of us become a statistic of

00:48:57.850 --> 00:48:59.630 align:middle line:90%
life for that time period.

00:48:59.630 --> 00:49:02.170 align:middle line:84%
And these statistics have
shown measurable changes

00:49:02.170 --> 00:49:05.530 align:middle line:84%
through history in our
quest to live longer.

00:49:05.530 --> 00:49:09.670 align:middle line:84%
A baby born in 1900 could
expect to live to

00:49:09.670 --> 00:49:11.720 align:middle line:90%
be about age 42.

00:49:11.720 --> 00:49:17.010 align:middle line:84%
In this century, the life
expectancy of humans has more

00:49:17.010 --> 00:49:18.330 align:middle line:90%
than doubled.

00:49:18.330 --> 00:49:22.690 align:middle line:84%
And a baby born today in
Cambridge, Vermont can expect

00:49:22.690 --> 00:49:26.030 align:middle line:90%
to live to be 85.

00:49:26.030 --> 00:49:28.330 align:middle line:84%
It is probably true,
historically, that women have

00:49:28.330 --> 00:49:31.380 align:middle line:84%
always lived somewhat longer
than men but perhaps the

00:49:31.380 --> 00:49:34.290 align:middle line:84%
differential was only one or two
years of life expectancy

00:49:34.290 --> 00:49:38.980 align:middle line:84%
at birth prior to
recent decades.

00:49:38.980 --> 00:49:41.640 align:middle line:84%
Even as recently as the turn of
this century, I believe the

00:49:41.640 --> 00:49:44.100 align:middle line:84%
differential in life expectancy
between men and

00:49:44.100 --> 00:49:46.750 align:middle line:84%
women was only on the order
of one or two years.

00:49:46.750 --> 00:49:50.470 align:middle line:84%
Now typically, it\'s on the order
of six or seven years of

00:49:50.470 --> 00:49:53.330 align:middle line:84%
difference in life expectancy
at birth.

00:49:53.330 --> 00:49:59.490 align:middle line:84%
Some major changes have occurred
in life expectancy.

00:49:59.490 --> 00:50:03.310 align:middle line:84%
Lifespan is an established
thing.

00:50:03.310 --> 00:50:04.900 align:middle line:90%
It\'s in the genes.

00:50:04.900 --> 00:50:09.860 align:middle line:84%
People have postulated that
there is a maximum age at

00:50:09.860 --> 00:50:11.320 align:middle line:90%
which people may live.

00:50:11.320 --> 00:50:14.250 align:middle line:84%
And we\'re thinking that\'s
probably about 120,

00:50:14.250 --> 00:50:16.000 align:middle line:90%
130 years of age.

00:50:16.000 --> 00:50:19.670 align:middle line:84%
So even if we succeed in
preventing all of the chronic

00:50:19.670 --> 00:50:23.600 align:middle line:84%
diseases and disabilities
of age and having people

00:50:23.600 --> 00:50:27.620 align:middle line:84%
successfully growing old, and
staying active, and productive

00:50:27.620 --> 00:50:33.130 align:middle line:84%
up to 130, then that would seem
to be a reasonable limit

00:50:33.130 --> 00:50:34.380 align:middle line:90%
to anticipate.

00:50:34.380 --> 00:50:41.720 align:middle line:90%

00:50:41.720 --> 00:50:49.440 align:middle line:84%
So far I\'m the oldest man, the
oldest one in America.

00:50:49.440 --> 00:50:53.010 align:middle line:84%
I first met Chris Mortensen
in March of 1995.

00:50:53.010 --> 00:50:55.450 align:middle line:84%
He was living in San Rafael,
California at the time.

00:50:55.450 --> 00:50:58.640 align:middle line:84%
And I heard about him from some
colleagues in Denmark who

00:50:58.640 --> 00:51:01.590 align:middle line:84%
had read about him in a
Danish news magazine.

00:51:01.590 --> 00:51:04.830 align:middle line:84%
And we believed, at the time,
that he could be the oldest

00:51:04.830 --> 00:51:06.850 align:middle line:90%
man living.

00:51:06.850 --> 00:51:17.060 align:middle line:84%
Well, I was born August
16, 1882.

00:51:17.060 --> 00:51:18.890 align:middle line:84%
Some of the things that he
suffers from are quite

00:51:18.890 --> 00:51:21.370 align:middle line:84%
debilitating for example, the
blindness and now the

00:51:21.370 --> 00:51:22.920 align:middle line:90%
inability to walk.

00:51:22.920 --> 00:51:25.580 align:middle line:84%
I think that perhaps if he were
not blind that he would

00:51:25.580 --> 00:51:26.460 align:middle line:90%
be able to walk.

00:51:26.460 --> 00:51:28.870 align:middle line:84%
He has the strength in
his legs to walk.

00:51:28.870 --> 00:51:31.690 align:middle line:84%
But I think it\'s the fact that
he doesn\'t have the balance.

00:51:31.690 --> 00:51:34.300 align:middle line:84%
Although he\'s very debilitated
in these ways that affect his

00:51:34.300 --> 00:51:37.840 align:middle line:84%
quality of life, it doesn\'t
seem that he has illnesses

00:51:37.840 --> 00:51:42.140 align:middle line:84%
which pose an immediate
threat to his life.

00:51:42.140 --> 00:51:44.170 align:middle line:90%
I smoke cigars everyday.

00:51:44.170 --> 00:51:47.170 align:middle line:90%
I think it\'s healthy to smoke.

00:51:47.170 --> 00:51:49.300 align:middle line:84%
Chris would tell you that
smoking a cigar,

00:51:49.300 --> 00:51:51.480 align:middle line:90%
actually, is good.

00:51:51.480 --> 00:51:54.100 align:middle line:84%
And I think, from his
perspective, it\'s good because

00:51:54.100 --> 00:51:57.320 align:middle line:84%
he comes home in the evening,
or when he was younger and

00:51:57.320 --> 00:51:59.510 align:middle line:84%
worked, I think he would come
home in the evenings, sit

00:51:59.510 --> 00:52:03.310 align:middle line:84%
down, and smoke a cigar as
a means of relaxing.

00:52:03.310 --> 00:52:07.090 align:middle line:84%
And so in this sense, it was his
meditative, quiet moments

00:52:07.090 --> 00:52:08.640 align:middle line:90%
in the evenings.

00:52:08.640 --> 00:52:13.260 align:middle line:84%
And given that he didn\'t have a
propensity to develop tumors

00:52:13.260 --> 00:52:17.090 align:middle line:84%
and develop cancer, therefore,
it maybe has

00:52:17.090 --> 00:52:18.180 align:middle line:90%
been good for him.

00:52:18.180 --> 00:52:21.030 align:middle line:84%
But I don\'t think that most
people should assume that it

00:52:21.030 --> 00:52:22.870 align:middle line:84%
would be good for them just
because Chris Mortensen has

00:52:22.870 --> 00:52:25.900 align:middle line:90%
lived as long smoking cigars.

00:52:25.900 --> 00:52:27.713 align:middle line:90%
Chris, flip your ashes.

00:52:27.713 --> 00:52:28.680 align:middle line:90%
Huh?

00:52:28.680 --> 00:52:30.800 align:middle line:90%
Flip the ashes.

00:52:30.800 --> 00:52:32.270 align:middle line:90%
Anybody sitting there?

00:52:32.270 --> 00:52:34.460 align:middle line:90%
Nobody\'s sitting there.

00:52:34.460 --> 00:52:35.900 align:middle line:90%
Good.

00:52:35.900 --> 00:52:38.630 align:middle line:84%
It\'s interesting, of course, to
observe one individual who

00:52:38.630 --> 00:52:39.520 align:middle line:90%
has lived that long.

00:52:39.520 --> 00:52:43.220 align:middle line:84%
And you gain certain insights
about the way he

00:52:43.220 --> 00:52:44.280 align:middle line:90%
has lived his life.

00:52:44.280 --> 00:52:47.770 align:middle line:84%
And it encourages you to ask
certain questions about what

00:52:47.770 --> 00:52:49.200 align:middle line:84%
do we want to know
about aging?

00:52:49.200 --> 00:52:52.060 align:middle line:84%
What do we want to know about
the experience of people who

00:52:52.060 --> 00:52:53.200 align:middle line:90%
have lived that long?

00:52:53.200 --> 00:52:55.730 align:middle line:90%
Do you think life is good?

00:52:55.730 --> 00:52:56.440 align:middle line:90%
All right.

00:52:56.440 --> 00:52:58.148 align:middle line:90%
Good?

00:52:58.148 --> 00:53:01.410 align:middle line:90%
Sure, I think it\'s good.

00:53:01.410 --> 00:53:04.190 align:middle line:90%
If you make it that way.

00:53:04.190 --> 00:53:04.990 align:middle line:90%
You can make it good.

00:53:04.990 --> 00:53:08.700 align:middle line:90%
You can make it bad.

00:53:08.700 --> 00:53:14.185 align:middle line:84%
You can do a lot of drinking
and smoking, then

00:53:14.185 --> 00:53:15.520 align:middle line:90%
you\'ll make it bad.

00:53:15.520 --> 00:53:20.460 align:middle line:90%

00:53:20.460 --> 00:53:23.128 align:middle line:90%
Cigar a day, you make it good.

00:53:23.128 --> 00:53:29.040 align:middle line:90%

00:53:29.040 --> 00:53:33.840 align:middle line:84%
Well, a lot of the other people
have allowed themselves

00:53:33.840 --> 00:53:38.560 align:middle line:84%
to think of age and keep
on thinking of age.

00:53:38.560 --> 00:53:41.120 align:middle line:90%
But I never think of age.

00:53:41.120 --> 00:53:45.230 align:middle line:84%
I just go on living
and enjoying life.

00:53:45.230 --> 00:53:47.660 align:middle line:84%
What kind of advice
can I give you?

00:53:47.660 --> 00:53:52.640 align:middle line:84%
Eat, and sleep, and
good mannered.

00:53:52.640 --> 00:53:56.680 align:middle line:90%
And that\'s it, I can tell you.

00:53:56.680 --> 00:53:59.700 align:middle line:84%
You have to figure it
out yourself what\'s

00:53:59.700 --> 00:54:02.590 align:middle line:90%
the best for you.

00:54:02.590 --> 00:54:08.020 align:middle line:84%
The best thing, looking back
at all the things that you

00:54:08.020 --> 00:54:11.790 align:middle line:84%
have done and accomplished,
things you have said to

00:54:11.790 --> 00:54:15.050 align:middle line:84%
people, and things you wish
you had said to people but

00:54:15.050 --> 00:54:16.300 align:middle line:90%
didn\'t, and so forth.

00:54:16.300 --> 00:54:19.400 align:middle line:90%

00:54:19.400 --> 00:54:21.670 align:middle line:84%
When you get to my age, there\'s
a great deal of

00:54:21.670 --> 00:54:22.920 align:middle line:90%
looking back.

00:54:22.920 --> 00:54:25.230 align:middle line:90%

00:54:25.230 --> 00:54:30.120 align:middle line:84%
And you spend a lot of
time doing it, too.

00:54:30.120 --> 00:54:32.880 align:middle line:84%
I wanted to show people
that they can

00:54:32.880 --> 00:54:36.810 align:middle line:90%
enjoy life at any age.

00:54:36.810 --> 00:54:41.420 align:middle line:84%
Well, I\'m proud of myself that
I\'m living all these years.

00:54:41.420 --> 00:54:43.360 align:middle line:90%
And I\'m feeling fine.

00:54:43.360 --> 00:54:46.390 align:middle line:90%
Knock on wood.

00:54:46.390 --> 00:54:49.840 align:middle line:84%
I made up my mind many years
ago that I\'m going

00:54:49.840 --> 00:54:51.640 align:middle line:90%
to do what I can.

00:54:51.640 --> 00:54:52.880 align:middle line:90%
I\'m going to enjoy life.

00:54:52.880 --> 00:54:54.130 align:middle line:90%
And that\'s what I do now.

00:54:54.130 --> 00:54:56.520 align:middle line:84%
I want to enjoy, and
I mean enjoy life.

00:54:56.520 --> 00:54:59.060 align:middle line:84%
I want to squeeze every bit
that I possibly can

00:54:59.060 --> 00:55:00.310 align:middle line:90%
out of every day.

00:55:00.310 --> 00:55:01.437 align:middle line:90%

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