#active-aging

#active-aging

Every day we're grateful for what we have,

Within just a few months of playing consistently, she began to notice a difference. "I remember when I started playing ping pong," she told Business Insider's Sarah Andersen in April, "I noticed that my reflexes were faster than they had been." Now, after more than a decade of playing and competing at the national level and earning more than 50 medals, she attributes the sport to keeping her mind sharp and engaged as she enters her 80s.

I arrived at his office door, rang the bell, and a vigorous man with a booming voice answered and beckoned me to come in. The first thing he said was, "There will be no mention of age during our meeting. You will not use words like 'older' or '90s' or ask me any questions that in any way refer to the amount of time I have been alive. Now let's begin. I am a very busy man because I run six different companies."

I'm doing my little bit to persuade people to keep on trying, because we're all living longer these days, said Henry Young, a centenarian athlete.

I'm the player-coach for the Baltimore team, and I'd really like to add one or two more players who can pass and cut, pick-and-roll, set a screen, and still move their legs quickly enough to guard someone.