What it’s like to be 100 years old, in 10 charts
Source: U.S. Census
A big chunk of centenarians (43 percent) never finished high school. A plurality of Baby Boomers (34 percent) did.
大量百年人瑞 (43 %) 沒完成高中學歷; 多數是戰爭嬰兒潮時期時代的人 ( 34 %)。
Source: U.S. Census
The health insurance company United Healthcare recently surveyed 104 centenarians (and 302 Boomers ages 65 and older) to probe a little more deeply. The small sample of 100-year-0lds is less than ideal, but there’s some interesting info here.
For example, only 3 percent said they were lonely, sad or burdened. 一份保險統計源自 104 位百歲人瑞僅 3% 人表示孤單, 悲傷或給人負擔。
They remember their 30s most fondly … 普遍最回味 30 歲時期的事. ( 或說 1930左右年代 )
Source: United Healthcare
Feel like they’re only 83 … 她們最覺得自己好像是約 83 歲 !
Would most like to have dinner with President Obama. ( Boomers name Betty White !?!) …
Source: United Healthcare
And, remarkably, don’t have daily caregivers. 53 % 的人沒日常看護 !
Update: A 2012 Census report says that 35.2 percent of women centenarians and 18.2 percent of men live in nursing homes.
ㄧ份 2012 年人口統計月報, 35.2 % 女性人瑞和 18.2 % 男性人瑞住在看護之家。
They’ve heard of Facebook and Twitter, but not Pinterest:
Feel they’ve accomplished what they wanted to. 只有 22% 的人覺得仍有未了事; 53% 表示諸是已了 !
Source: United Healthcare
And attribute their longevity to staying close to family and friends: 她們長壽主要靠親友和朋友 !
Lenny Bernstein writes the To Your Health blog. He was previously a reporter, editor andMisFits columnist for The Post. Follow him on Twitter: @LennyMBernstein.
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My mother was old-lady crazy until we weaned her off sleeping pills and she returned to lucidity.
You have to read me to understand.
Just sayin'.
How about this list:
Churchill, Eddie Cantor, Ish Kabbible, Einstein, Garbo, Roosevelt (Mr. and/or Mrs.), Charles Lindbergh, Mae West, Nixon, George Orwell, Irwin Rommel, Jessie Owens, Frank Sinatra, Juan Manual Fangio, Woody Guthrie, Neil Armstrong, Robert Oppenheimer, Cab Calloway, Edmond Hillary, Groucho Marx
The research may have once been as pure as the driven snow, as Mae West once said about herself. But then, like her, it drifted.