Many already are. LaFauci, a former traveling salesman, says people are as shocked by his independence as they are by his gift of gab. They mistake him for 60. I can hold a conversation with anyone. There are discoveries researchers haven't explained.
Centenarian women outnumber men, but are sicker and more frail.
Women who have a child after 40 are five times as likely to reach the century mark than other women. We have vespers, and I go in my wheelchair. Paying attention to the physical is important, but we also need to have a spiritual life too. There are roughly 30,000 centenarians, or 1 in 10,000 of the U.S. population, the Census Bureau says. The 2000 Census count due in June could place the number at 70,000.