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Check Out These TED Talks!

April 6, 2016

American Society on Aging (ASA) recently posted about 5 TED talks on Aging.  5 TED Talks on Aging to Inspire You range from curing Alzheimer’s to a grandson’s invention to help his grandfather with dementia from wandering. There’s a talk from Diana Nyad about her historic swim (“In the pitch-black night, stung by jellyfish, choking on salt water, singing to herself, hallucinating … Diana Nyad just kept on swimming. And that’s how she finally achieved her lifetime goal as an athlete: an extreme 100-mile swim from Cuba to Florida”) and a chat between Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda where they “discuss longevity, feminism, the differences between male and female friendship, what it means to live well and women’s role in future of our planet. ‘I don’t even know what I would do without my women friends,” Fonda says. “I exist because I have my women friends.'”

Check them out!