Boomers vs. Reality, What We Lie About, Etc.

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It’s one thing to be optimistic, another to be delusional. The distinction is brought to mind by one bit of data in a survey of baby boomers, from the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago: 79 percent of 43- to 57-year-olds believe they won’t experience “serious limitation” on their physical activity “until beyond age 70.” What are these people thinking? While average lifespan is pushing toward 80, this doesn’t alter the fact that many boomers will be dead before 70—a circumstance quite likely to curtail their physical activity.

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