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Are older people getting younger?
Aired 3/28/1996

In America, people are living longer, and older people are more physically and psychologically healthy than ever before. However, growing old remains tough. Think Tank explores whether this is a good time to grow older in America.
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  Betty Friedan
    author of The Feminine Mystique and The Fountain of Age
  David Gutmann
    professor of psychiatry and education at Northwestern University, author of Reclaimed Powers: Men and Women in Later Life
  Elizabeth Cobbs
    director of the Division of Aging Studies and Services at George Washington University Medical Center
  Richard Sprott
    director of the Biology of Aging at the National Institute on Aging

Originally Aired: 3/28/1996

   
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