We’re lucky if we get to be old, physician and professor believes

American innovator Bill Thomas says there’s a third phase of life that can be as rewarding as youth. But in the land of Botox and celebrity teenagers and the 18-to-34-year-old target consumer, the idea that old age can be as rewarding as youth is not an easy sell. In fact, Thomas believes that Americans have bought so willingly into the idea of aging as something to be feared that it has become a self-fulfilling prophecy leading to isolation, loneliness and lack of autonomy.
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