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Of Interest:  As of October, 2009, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates there are about 104,099 centenarians, a number that is increasing steadily, and is predicted to more than quadruple by 2030, reaching 1.15 million by 2050.

Some demographers are even predicting that high school students of today have a good chance of reaching the century mark!

Also, for the near term, a conservative estimate is that at least one out of three women age 50 today will reach 90.

National Centenarian Awareness Project Inspiring Positive Aging. Our nonprofit 501(c(3)) organization celebrates active centenarians as role models for the future of aging. Each month we present remarkable centenarians and feature one on our inspirational calendar. On our blog, we discuss centenarians and what it’s like to live to 100 and beyond.


Up Front ...  

Astrid Thoenig, our December 2009 Calendar
Our December Calendar
Read more.


Captain Joe (Jose) Grant, 101,
pioneer aviator.
Read more about this
fascinating centenarian.


Ruth Proskauer Smith, 102
on CBS Special Dec 12th
Read more.


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National Centenarian Awareness Project (NCAP) a nonprofit 501(c(3)) organization, 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 Peters Adler with centenarians Rosie Ross, Lillian Cox, Elsa Hoffmann, Karl Hartzell and Dorothy Young

 

      Lynn Peters Adler (center) with centenarians (l-r) "Rosie"   
      Ross, Lillian Cox, Elsa Hoffmann and Karl Hartzel. Dorothy
      Young, inset. Click to read more about the "Fab Five" and
      the Barbara Walters Special
.  Click here to read bios of 
     each of the "Fab Five."

     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, through her company Sterling Resources Inc., is a consultant to businesses
on programs relating to aging, longevity, centenarians and others of advanced age. She also serves as a catalyst to bring active centenarians to the public’s attention, often through print and broadcast media.

National Centenarian Awareness Project Mission:

“It is a great distinction to live to 100 years or more.” – Lynn Peters Adler, 1985

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

CELEBRATION/RECOGNITION:
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. 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

Direct email to: adler@NCAP100s.org
800-243-1889 or 602-363-8980
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Our Centenarian 2009 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.


Click for our December Calendar

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

December 2009
Astrid Thoenig, 100


     Dedicated career woman, wife, mother, community volunteer, single working Mom, entrepreneur, remarriage, third career, caring daughter to her Mother and involved Grandmother.  Sound familiar? Sure.  Except that Astrid has pulled it all off successfully to age 100 – and still going strong – and still working a 40 hour week! 
       “I am blessed,” she says.  She’s also immensely talented and determined and focused.  “I don’t feel old and I don’t think old,” she’s quick to add.  She doesn’t have any tricks or secrets to her success – “this is just the way I am and always have been.”
      C
lick on the calendar for a larger view, to print out the calendar and read more about Astrid Thoenig.


CBS Special Features Two Centenarians,
Saturday, December 12th, 7:30 p.m. EST

GO NEW YORK! Living Longer, Better,” a television special hosted by
Dr. Max Gomez, aired December 12th in the Tri-State New York area on CBS Channel 2. 
The show featured retired TWA Captain Joe (Jose) Grant of Stamford, CT,
Ruth Proskauer Smith of New York City and Lynn
.

*** Click here to watch the special online at WCBS-TV ***
 

At 101, Aviation Pioneer Keeps Going
Captain Joe (Jose) Grant, 101 - Pioneer aviator Jose Grant, can be found working 6 days a week at the jewelry store that bears his name in Stamford, CT.  He’s known for his unique “puzzle rings,” and has been in business since 1947.  He’s also a retired pilot for TWA and spent 2 years in Saudi Arabia helping to found their national airline after WWII.  He now flies with his son in their Cessna, lives alone and is still driving.  His office and store are filled with memorabilia, awards and honors from his flying days. 


Captain Joe (Jose) Grant, 101
Photo courtesy of Stan Piet, Archive Director, Glenn L. Martin Museum

He recently held a book signing at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum for his book about his time in Saudi Arabia. 
 
Ruth Proskauer Smith, 102
Ruth Proskauer Smith, 102 – Native New Yorker Ruth Smith retains a keen interest in the law and those who make the law, especially the U.S. Supreme Court.  Ruth comes by her interest in the law naturally.  Her father, Joseph M. Proskauer, was a prominent New York lawyer and a founder of the distinguished law firm that still contains his name. Her father was a confidant of Governor Alfred E. Smith, a candidate for the presidency in 1928. 
      Ruth regularly leads a self study group of retirees in New York who are interested in the makings of the laws of the land.  To her two children’s dismay, she maintains her active lifestyle in New York using the bus and subway to get around.  She has lived in her apartment at the historic Dakota since the early 1960s and relishes her independence. 


   Behind the scenes ...
                        The making of the 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, 2008.  
      I was asked two years ago to participate in this project and it was both a wonderful and exhilarating experience.    
      It was 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  bios  of

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

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!!   
       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.


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