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   Let's celebrate! May is Older Americans Month!


"Audition" by Barbara Walters
 

Great News!! Our Fab Five centenarians are mentioned
                   in Barbara Walters' new book!!
 
Writes Barbara Walters:

“I particularly liked doing the Special this year ... called How to Live to Be 150. It was cutting-edge science, including the latest in stem-cell research and a drug that now fights aging in mice and may in the future work on humans.  Mind-boggling!
        "As part of the Special I interviewed half a dozen on-the-ball men and women who were each 100 years old or older.  My favorite was 101-year-old Dorothy, who came with her 94-year-old boyfriend.  Dorothy told me that she is happier now than she has ever been.  She had been married, she said, for forty-six years before her husband died, but it was a bad marriage and finally she had found true love.  So there you are.  It really is never too late.”

Click to learn more about Dorothy Young and view a video of her life.

            Dorothy’s romance doesn’t surprise us at all, and that was the main point of including her with Stan at the taping of the Barbara Walters Special — to show that we don’t outgrow our need and desire for love and relationships of all kinds, even in advanced age.  We’re so pleased that this resonated with Ms. Walters, who is known for her sensitivity to and insight with her interviewees.  In fact, we have a lot to say on this topic, a topic I first broached many years ago when it was really “taboo.” Click for an excerpt from “Centenarians: The Bonus Years” and “love stories” of others we have known.

   Behind the scenes ...
                        The making of this Barbara Walters Special!   Click here.

Barbara Walters Special
Click for Barbara Walters'
article on the ABC website

The ABC Barbara Walters Special on aging and longevity "Live to be 150" aired the first of April.  
      I was asked two years ago to participate in this project and it was a wonderful and exhilarating experience.    
       It was both an honor and a privilege to work with Ms. Walters and her talented and caring team of professionals. 
    We’ve put together a “behind the scene” feature with short  bios (expanded bios coming soon) of each of the five centenarians who traveled to New York City last September for this history-making, first-ever event.
     When a “TV legend” is interested in longevity, it makes all the work I have devoted my career to over the past 23 years worthwhile – AGING IS IN!!
       To the right,
is a picture of the “Fab Five,” as I call the centenarians who were with me in “the Big Apple” – we had a wonderful time.

Babara Walters & the "Fab Five" centenarians from the ABC Special: "Live to be 150...Can You Do It?"
The Barbara Walters Special features five of our centenarians:
Pictured (l-r): Dorothy Young, "Rosie" Ross, Lillian Cox,
Barbara Walters, Dr. Karl Hartzell and Elsa Hoffmann.
Click to read an article on the ABC website about the
Special by producers Jennifer Joseph and Rob Wallace
Lynn Peters Adler with the "Fab Five" - ABC Barbara Walters Special, April 1st

Ms. Walters is even more attractive in person; she was so gracious with the centenarians and her staff so very considerate and respectful. I have participated in a lot of media productions over  the  years and often  with centenarians. Some of the experiences have unfortunately been somewhere between upsetting and disappointing. But with Ms. Walters’ team, it was “top notch,” as one of my 100-year-old friends put it, and another summed it up as a “magical experience.”


Behind the scenes ...
The making of the Barbara Walters
Special!   Click here.

Celebrity Centenarian
Elsa B. Hoffmann
For Elsa Hoffmann life doesn’t
get any better than this at 100. “My golden years have been
like sparkling diamonds.” 
Click for pictures and
more about Elsa.

Elsa Hoffann, Celebrity Centenarian

Dorothy Young

May 3, 2008
Happy 101st Birthday,
Dorothy Young

A love of life and enjoyment of the arts have been the hallmark of the long and successful career of centenarian Dorothy Young. Click to watch a video about Dorothy's life.

"Fab Five" Southern Belle Lillian Cox, who recently appeared on the Barbara Walters ABC Special "Live to be 150" appeared on Inside Edition - "America's Newsmagazine," Click for more about Lillian

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National Centenarian Awareness Project (NCAP) was founded by Lynn Peters Adler, J.D., who has devoted her career to honoring, studying, and advocating for increased recognition and inclusion of centenarians and all elders as a natural part of the fabric of our society.  Lynn has a wealth of information about this increasing segment of our population and centenarians in particular. Because of her rapport with this special group, she has a unique understanding of their needs, thoughts, behavior and philosophies of life. Lynn’s work is predicated on the belief that ageism in America is both wrong and unnecessary. 
         Lynn’s voice on centenarians, longevity and positive aging, with an emphasis on quality of life issues, has been heard throughout the United States. She continues her long-standing involvement in community service with her appointment to a new term on the Arizona Governor’s Advisory Council on Aging (www.azgovernor.gov/gaca) and the Arizona Attorney General’s Senior Advisory Council.  For ten years she served as chairperson of the Phoenix Mayor’s Aging Services Commission.  She founded the Arizona Centenarian Program during her first term on the Governor’s Advisory Council on Aging in the mid 1980s. (click for more: About Lynn Peters Adler).  
          Lynn is a consultant to companies on aging and centenarian-related programs.  She also serves as a catalyst to bring active centenarians to the public’s attention, often through print and broadcast media.
      
 

Direct email to: adler@NCAP100s.org
800-243-1889 or 602-363-8980
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NCAP seeks to contact and honor all those 100 years old and older as our living links to history and works with community entities to promote recognition of our eldest citizens. NCAP also celebrates active centenarians as role models for the future of aging.

NCAP's mission is threefold:

ADVOCACY: For the continued involvement of our elders as integral members of society.

CELEBRATION/RECOGNITION: It is a great distinction to live to 100 years or more.
Click to learn about NCAP Centenarian Recognition Program.

INSPIRATION: Active centenarians are role models for the future of aging

For more information about National Centenarian Awareness Project, click on About NCAP and read our blog:                     www.liveto100and beyond.com

Of Interest:
Currently, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates there are more than 84,000 centenarians, with women outnumbering men 4 to 1. It is projected that there will be one million centenarians by 2050, and that a girl child born today has a 50% chance of living to 100 or more.


May 2008
Lillian Harrison

Our calendar is inspirational!
Please read this post on our blog:
Inspirational Centenarian Calendar
Click here.

Our Centenarian 2008 Calendar
is inspirational.

Each month we feature a remarkable centenarian and invite you to read about the centenarian and print out the month's calendar.
       Active centenarians are everywhere! Lillian Harrison, a new centenarian in October of 2007, is co-owner of Leo Joseph Lawrence Harrison Vineyards, St. Helena, Calif., which debuted its 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon at Lillian’s 100th birthday party. The company is unique in that it has four generations involved. And they’re all women: 100-year-old Lillian, her daughter and co-owner, Carolyn Harrison Lawrence and Carolyn’s daughter, Donna Lee Lawrence Costa, who helps with the accounting and business side of the organization. The youngest member is Lillian’s great-granddaughter, Erika Lawrence, who will be in sales after graduating from college. 
     Click on the calendar for a larger view, to print out the calendar and read more about Lillian Harrison.              

Updated 5-2008    

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