An Icon at 93. Living Life…Happy Birthday Persis! An Icon…Iris Apfel, Betty White, Gloria Steinem, Maya Angelou, Jane Fonda and Persis Laverack. Just a few iconic women in their 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. Women who have not let the number make...
Meet Persis Laverack … An icon at 93. And she’s not stopping anytime soon. She’s taking her daily 2 mile walk! Persis drives her new 2020 pearl white Subaru to wherever she wants to go, pops the hatchback, pulls out her walker and off she...
This story was published in partnership with The 19th, a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom reporting on gender, politics and policy. Every morning, 100-year-old Angela Little reads the newspaper in bed, does the crossword while having breakfast, reads a book and sends...
‘Never stop asking yourself what you want to be when you grow up.’ -Loretta LaRoche ‘Don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do.’ -John Wooden This is not a movie. We’re living in times that no one could have...
This Week’s Podcast: The Changing Perception of Age As time has passed, so has the changing perception of age. Both of these women are in their 50’s. The difference is the one on the left was taken in 1985 and the one on the right, 2020. So, the question...
Leisure time physical activity improves the blood lipid profile, a marker of cardiovascular risk, of postmenopausal women. This is the main takeaway of a new study that appears in the journal Frontiers in Endocrinology. Sira Karvinen — a postdoctoral researcher from...
