Exceeding Expectations: 20 New Yorkers

Check this out! A project from “the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health”,  Exceeding Expectations is the stories of

20 New Yorkers from all different circumstances and backgrounds who have both exceeded life expectancy and who are disrupting commonly-held expectations of what it means to grow old.

Every few weeks, [the authors] introduce the story of a new person to our readers. You will meet a woman who cares for her 1-year-old great-grandchild, a man who was in prison for 30+ years and is trying to make up for lost time and an optometrist who has retired four times but keeps returning to work.

And check out NextAvenue’s  This Is What Growing Old Really Looks Like: 12 pictures that will make you think differently about getting older.

Isn’t it time for a little positive news?