I believe that we need to create a new attitude toward aging in the United States. We do not do senior citizens a favor by attempting to make life easier for them. Many of the health and mobility problems experienced as we age are caused from immobility and in our society we make it easy to be immobile. The idea of taking it easy as we get older should be discarded and replaced with a new outlook.
I spoke recently with a 30-year-old acquaintance and told her that I taught resistance training classes for senior citizens. She said,