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Let's
celebrate! May is Older Americans Month!
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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.
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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.
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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. |
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 |
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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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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. |
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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. |
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"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 -
cellphone |
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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. |
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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.
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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. |
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Updated 5-2008
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Adler, J.D.
No material, in whole or in part, may be reprinted
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