Key findings include:
Age is relative.
Regardless of age, ninety-five percent (95%) of respondents arestill learning.
Most believe age is about living, not dying.
Answer slides are noted at the end of each question.
At what age do you consider most adults to be over the hill?
(slide 7)
2.
Have you ever lied about your age?
(slide 8)
3.
What exercise do you do more today than you did 10 years ago?
(slide 16)
4.
How many times per week do you cook dinner at home?
(slide 17)
5.
How many times a day do you laugh?
(slide 18)
6.
When was the last time you worked on learning something new?
(slide 20)
7.
Are you more attracted to people your own age, younger than you, or older than you?
(slides 22-23)
8.
When you forget things, you think of it as…?
(slide 24)
9.
How has your age alone limited you?
(slide 29)
10.
Have you thought something about someone based solely on their age?
The data has been weighted to U.S. Census, by generation, for analysis.
For more information or to have a conversation about the data, contact Patty David atPDavid@aarp.org.
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