Column: Is our aging population a time bomb? An opportunity?
California is about to be hit by an aging population wave, and Steve Lopez is riding it. His new column will focus on the blessings and burdens of advancing age — and how some folks are challenging the stigma associated with older adults.
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A vaguely familiar chap keeps showing up at my house every morning and evening, seven days a week, without fail.
I look in the mirror and see a cross between my father and myself.
A part of me is unsettled by the slow and steady aging process, which creeps in uninvited and, if you're lucky, hangs around a while. But another part of me is defiant. I don't feel as old as the man in the mirror, and I'm leaning on the George Burns line that you can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
Getting older, by the way, is an epidemic. About 10,000 people turn 65 each
