CSPAN2 Book TV February 28, 2011
90 is the new 50. she discusses growing older in america with aarp state news editor sylvia smith. age. what is the myth of the new old age? >> guest: the myth of an old age, we are all -- people that are not old. the aging boomers people in the 50s and early 60s and 40s. but our old is going to be lived in a way that's totally different from the way in which old age has been lived in the past. that we are going to all be sky diving -- yeah, that we are simply going to get older, but not actually old. >> host: so why do you think the cultures invested in sugar coating old age? >> wel...