A flip on a senior tip.

I just finished scanning the September issue of AARP. It was approximately 38 pages long with more than 50% of the pages devoted to advertising for insurance, estate planning, saving for retirement, age spots, suicide prevention, national grandparents day, foot pain, back pain, numerous unidentified pain locations, medical alert monitoring, restless leg syndrome treatment, customized stairlifts, special computers designed for seniors, home security issues and a provocative ad for a video titled "Sex. It's never too late to learn something new." 

However, what caught my attention was an article on "The Value of Older workers." It reminded me of that scene in Dumb and Dumber where Jim Carey says something like, " I see older people still can make a contribution to society." AARP also had an article on a new movie where Robert De Niro (71) plays a 70 year old senior intern at an e-commerce start up. I can only imagine the cheap comedy aimed at the prospective culture clash. 

I love De Niro but I suspect I will be offended by the movie premise which is the same premise embedded in all the stories in the AARP newsletter. e.g. Surprise. Surprise. Older people can still work, contribute, learn new languages, and even help manage a new business. Before I tossed the newsletter in the trash, I saw an article on how older people can still adapt to the new technologies of smartphones. It is a good thing this article was not first or I never would have read any more.

There is a senior tip here somewhere, but I am not sure where. Maybe you can uncover it and let me know via my high tech email account. I agree the photo has nothing to do with this blog, or maybe it does and I just forgot.

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