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"The Elderly Are Uniformly Declining"

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Aging includes real physical change, but treating decline as uniform ignores the range of health, activity, and capacity within any group of older adults.

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Two seventy-year-old job applicants, one training for triathlons and one requiring daily living assistance, can receive the same screening assumption from an employer.

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Variation within the older population is as wide as variation within any younger one.