THE ENDURING JOY OF PLUS-SIZE YOGA ASHTON APPLEWHITE ON ENDING AGEISM
Rebranding Aging®
JANE SEYMOUR'S MISSION OF LOVE RECORD-SETTING CENTENARIANS
Cyndi's Still So Unusual
Lauper Detours to Conquer Classic Country Music.
CONTENTS JULY/AUGUST 2016
FEATURE
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DEPARTMENTS 5 | FROM THE EDITOR
Cyndi Lauper conquered pop, blues and Broadway. Now she’s taking a detour to classic country music. BY BILL SHAFER
6 | GROWING BOLDER WITH ...
18 | BOLDER HEALTH Former U.S. Surgeon General urges personal responsibility. By Jackie Carlin
28 | SURVIVING & THRIVING ® Fearing the worst, couple discovers a new path forward. By Marc Middleton
7 | THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH ® Centenarians are tearing up the record books. By Marc Middleton
22 | FUNCTIONAL AGING The Functional Aging Institute is changing attitudes and lives. By Katy Widrick
30 | THE TAKEAWAY A manifesto to end ageism, starting with you. By Ashton Applewhite
8 | MOVE FORWARD. GIVE BACK. Actress Jane Seymour reaches out with a mission of love. By Bill Shafer
25 | NEVER TOO LATE When Bill White left the corporate world, he started living. By Bill Shafer
9 | ROAD TO RECOVERY How to avoid delays and denials of necessary care. By Robert Masson, M.D.
26 | TEAM GROWING BOLDER Neal Unger’s unusual pathway to personal peace. By Marc Middleton
10 | 5 QUESTIONS Barbara Hannah Gufferman on style, sex, health and money. By Bill Shafer
27 | TEAM GB ELITE Gaining mat confidence, one pose at a time. By Karen Putz
THE ENDURING JOY OF PLUS-SIZE YOGA ASHTON APPLEWHITE ON ENDING AGEISM
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REbRANDING AGING®
JANE SEYMOUR'S MISSION OF LOVE RECORD-SETTING CENTENARIANS
Cyndi's still so UnUsUal
Lauper Detours to Conquer Classic Country Music.
ON THE COVER: It's hard to believe it, but sassy Cyndi Lauper has been a part of pop culture for more than 35 years. Cover photo by Chapman Baehler. J U LY / A U G U S T 2 0 1 6
FROM THE EDITOR
Editor-in-Chief Marc Middleton Managing Editor Jackie Carlin Associate Editors Bill Shafer, Katy Widrick Contributing Writers Robert Masson, M.D. Additional Photography Chapman Baehler, Gloria Feinstein Digital Development and Production Jason Morrow, Pat Narciso, Josh Doolittle, Mike Nanus
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JEANNE CALMENT’S VERY GOOD DEAL
recently had the honor of evangelizing from the Book of Bolder as the opening speaker at the Functional Aging Summit in Phoenix. The summit attracts health and fitness professionals from all over the country who are looking to grow their businesses by tapping into the rapidly growing number of older Americans who understand that lifestyle modification today is the most powerful, most cost-effective form of healthcare for tomorrow. I opened my talk by sharing my favorite story of Jeanne Calment. Jeanne was a French woman who died in 1997 at the age of 122 years, 164 days. That’s the longest documented life in history — and until someone lives longer, it defines the maximum human lifespan. Jeanne lived a simple but active life. She took up fencing at the age of 85, rode her bicycle until she was 100, lived alone until she was 110 and walked without assistance until she was 115. She credited her longevity to a diet rich in olive oil, port wine and chocolate. When she was 90, Jeanne entered into what's known as a viager deal with a 47-yearold attorney. A viager is a contingency contract popular in France in which someone buys a property but only takes possession when the owner dies. The attorney, thinking he had made the deal of a lifetime, agreed to pay Jeanne the equivalent of $500 per month. Thirty years later, when he died at the age of 77, Jeanne was 120 and still going strong. The obligation for the monthly payment transferred to the man’s widow, and Jeanne lived for nearly three more years. When she died, the man and his wife had paid nearly $200,000, more than double the apartment’s value, and never lived in it a single day. Before she died, Jeanne said, “In life, one sometimes makes bad deals.” The best deal you can make today is to start Growing Bolder. Get off the couch and get moving, improve your diet, and start hanging out with others who don’t see age as a disease but realize it’s an opportunity. Who knows? Maybe one day you‘ll redefine the human lifespan.
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“I didn’t plan on being around this long — but I never drank, smoked or had a weight problem, so maybe all of that helped. I’m also a strong believer in exercise. In the winter, I play in more than 60 hockey games, including against my sons and grandsons, and in the summer I’m always on the move. For more than 40 years, I’ve volunteered to mow the lawns in cemeteries near my home. I use a push mower, not a riding mower. You’ll never get better sitting in a rocking chair. Just get up and move. My legs never bother me, my wind is all right and I’m on no medications, so I keep playing. I like to play hard and I hate missing games. I love to win, eh?”
At 90, Mike Campbell of Nova Scotia may well be the world’s oldest player of organized hockey. He spends his winters playing in adult leagues with teammates and opponents decades younger. This former coal miner says exercise has helped him through tough times, including the death of his wife at 40, which left him to care for their 12 children.
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FORMER TEEN IDOL “I had a year or two of feeling my oats. When you think you’re special or different, you’re dead. When I was younger, I got into a bit of trouble and I certainly regretted it. Once you wake up and find out no one is special, that’s a wonderful feeling. I understand how Justin Bieber has gotten himself into so much trouble. I’ve been there. He’ll come around. There are very few people who can say, ‘I know exactly what he’s going through.’ We all have our ups and downs, and we all have our doubts, especially when we get older. You just try to hang in there and remember that you have good people around you. Start thinking about all the people who have helped you. When you think of those who weren’t good to you, it puts you in a bad place.”
In the 1950s and ’60s, few stars were bigger than Fabian. Eleven of his songs cracked the Billboard Hot 100, and he appeared in more than 30 films, acting alongside John Wayne, Bing Crosby and Jimmy Stewart. Today, he tours with fellow classic crooners Frankie Avalon and Bobby Rydell.
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“I’m glad that our soldiers who return are able to get help and talk about their experiences. We never had this. I lived with my memories of the Holocaust all my life. When I came out of the hell, I couldn’t talk about it. I was very naive. I thought people wouldn’t hate each other anymore. Germany and Austria had some of the highest cultures before the war, but this all happened because of propaganda. If it could happen there, it could happen again. Hate has to be taken out of people’s hearts. When children come into this world, if parents put love into them, they will love. The hate is what they inherit; what they learn from others.”
Sonia Warshawski is among the last living survivors of the Holocaust. As a teen, she survived three different concentration camps and later moved to the U.S., where she married and had three children. For decades, she didn’t talk about her Holocaust experiences, but in her 70s, alarmed by hate crimes, she started speaking publicly about what she went through.
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FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
Ida Keeling posted a congratulatory message on Facebook (above right) to a fellow centenarian who broke her age-group world record for the 100-meter dash.
INCREDIBLE IDA Centenarians are Tearing Up the Record Books. BY MARC MIDDLETON
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he’s the littlest big deal in track and field. Or was for one week. Ida Keeling stands just 4 feet, 6 inches tall and weighs 83 pounds. But she electrified a packed stadium while capturing the attention and admiration of the world at the famed Penn Relays in Philadelphia. Just four days before her 101st birthday, the great-great-grandmother from New York City lined up to compete in a special mixed masters (men and women) 100-meter dash for runners 80 and older. With more than 40,000 spectators on their feet and a worldwide television audience tuning in, Keeling ran and powerwalked her way to a new women’s world record in the 100-104 age group, finishing in one minute, 17.33 seconds. “Thank God that I can still run,” she tells Growing Bolder. “I’m very happy to hear that I can inspire people. It makes me feel even greater than my height.” Keeling felt so good after crossing the finish line
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that she dropped to the ground in the infield and celebrated with five pushups — to the delight of the crowd. Keeling didn’t start running until she was 67, following the tragic (and still unsolved) murders of both of her sons. She became so depressed that her daughter, Shelley, all but forced her to get outside and start running. The results were immediate. “I just threw off all of the bad memories, the aggravation, the stress,” Keeling recalled to the New York Times. At 101, Keeling still lives alone in her native Brooklyn, relying on lessons learned growing up during the Depression — especially the importance of self-reliance and the futility of self-pity. “It taught you to do what you had to do without anyone doing it for you,” she told the Times. “I wash, cook, iron, scrub, clean, mop and shop.” Keeling’s philosophy on active longevity comes down to one word. “Attitude. Keep a good attitude. Don’t let nobody turn you around or change you up. Be you.”
What’s next? Keeling's hard at work on her first book, and her daughter is encouraging her to become the world’s first competitive weightlifter in the women’s 100-104 age group. “She’s quite strong, and there are no records in any of the powerlifting, bench, squat and deadlift,” Shelley Keeling told Runner’s World. And suddenly, there’s new competition on the track. Just three weeks after Keeling set the record, Ella Mae Colbert turned 100 and stepped onto the track behind Chesnee Middle School in South Carolina. After falling face down on her first attempt, Colbert was bandaged and tried again, this time beating Keeling’s time by more than 30 seconds. Afterward she told the crowd, “You don't stop. You’ll have some trials and you’ll have something that gets in your way, but you don’t let it get you down. You get up; you go again.” While Colbert’s time will likely become a Guinness World Record, it won’t be recognized as an official record because it wasn’t run in an officially sanctioned meet. Colbert plans to rectify that when she enters a masters competition this summer. Keeling wasted no time congratulating Colbert with a Facebook post: “Congratulations Ella Mae on your 100 meter mark. God has blessed you the same as he blessed me. If we can get two more, we can run a relay!” Still, Keeling told Growing Bolder that she hated to lose. “But I have to understand that people are younger,” she notes. “I just have to do the best I can with what’s left.”
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Most of us were introduced to Cyndi Lauper in 1983, when she released the raucous feminist anthem, "Girls Just Want to Have Fun." At 62, she's still blazing new trails musically.
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