Tagged: Origins Podcast

10:35am

Tue January 15, 2013
Origins Podcast

Should Age Matter? How 65 Came to Be Old and Old Came to Be Ill

Credit U.S. government photographer Marjory Collins
In 1942, when this photograph of an elderly Mennonite couple was shot in Pennsylvania, science and medicine were transforming the idea of old age by extending life expectancies and curing chronic disease.