{"id":10111,"date":"2018-04-11T08:44:34","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T12:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10111"},"modified":"2018-04-11T08:44:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T12:44:34","slug":"is-there-such-a-thing-as-normal-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10111","title":{"rendered":"Is There Such A Thing As Normal Aging?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Bruce Horovitz for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>For 93-year-old Joseph Brown, the clearest sign of aging was his inability the other day to remember he had to have his pants unzipped to pull them on.<\/p>\n<p>For 95-year-old Caroline Mayer, it was deciding at age 80 to put away her skis, after two hip replacements.<\/p>\n<p>And for 56-year-old Dr. Thomas Gill, a geriatric professor at Yale University, it\u2019s accepting that his daily 5\u00bd-mile jog now takes him upward of 50 minutes \u2014 never mind that he long prided himself on running the distance in well under that time.<\/p>\n<p>Is there such a thing as normal aging? <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/is-there-such-a-thing-as-normal-aging\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=62012921&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--GpD2GwP4JobVasniicRgU5XFcSaXR_64V6VPZshx2K6tjLES84omf68crgWvb6xs3xjlvC3HqJ8iXAXxlleh2q2AUwQ&amp;_hsmi=62012921\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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