Perspective: No one is too old to be president
Former vice president Joe Biden arrives at a rally organized by United Food and Commercial Workers union members to support striking Stop & Shop employees April 18 in Dorchester, Mass. By James Chappel and Sari Edelstein April 25 at 6:00 AM As the Democratic primary campaign heats up, the conversation is taking an unfortunate turn when it comes to discussion of candidates’ ages.
The near-unanimous consensus of gerontologists in the past several decades has been that elderly people are more cognitively capable and adaptable than our prejudices indicate. The vast majority of people in their 70s do not show signs of dementia. While it is true that subtle cognitive decline is nearly inevitable for all of us, different sorts of intelligence are affected at different rates.
The mismatch between popular ideas and scholarly research should not surprise us. History shows, too, that the devaluation of old age has more to do with culture and economics than it does with biology.
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