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Up until a few of years ago, Lop Chin could climb ladders "like a monkey" and hold his own against his son on the ping pong table. Turning 60, however, seemed to usher in a sensory slowdown and greater susceptibility to aches and pains. "All of sudden I can't see the ball anymore. He's kickin' my a--! It's not good," Chin said with a laugh. "My body can no longer do things that my mind thinks I can do. Now things I would normally do myself, I hire out." Chin, 62, is in his...
Ly Hotchkin doesn't mind being 94. She misses having a drivers license and better eyesight, but she still enjoys laughing with people she loves over a good drink. That wasn't the case 18 months ago. At the time, she was ready to die - and she told her doctors as much. "I begged them to let me die because I was so lethargic I didn't want to do anything, and it was horrible," Hotchkin said. "Guess what they did? They put this pacemaker in." The device changed everything. "The...
Five years ago, Jim Horn retired after practicing law for more than 35 years. "To be honest, I did not have a plan going forward other than to just withdraw from the professional world and live a healthy lifestyle and wait and see what might appear or become interesting or capture my imagination," he said. What captured his attention was a diagnosis of stage 3 prostrate cancer after his physical in February 2016. "I was absolutely shocked," he said, noting that he had been act...
The number 85 is a target for Hinsdale's Bill Brandenburg. He's already reached it in terms of age; the goal now is to match it (or lower) with his golf stroke total. "I shoot my age fairly regularly," Brandenberg remarked, noting his senior championship at Oak Brook Golf Club in 2017. "I play usually three rounds a week." Retired since 2001 from a career in chemical engineering, Brandenburg said he's glad he stayed on the job until he was 67, a little past the typical point...
"Age is not important unless you're a cheese." - Helen Hayes Ahh, if only that were true. But in this age-obsessed society, a person's age does matter - in innumerable ways. Unfortunately, when we think about aging, one of two things usually happens. Our thoughts are negative - or we're in complete denial. What can we do? Change the way we think about aging. Or, as the name of this series suggests, redefine it. "Reframing the issue requires the disrupting of "othering" older...
