Same goes for the boomers. We're going to create. We're going to do things, and we will do that our entire lives. Even though attitudes about age are evolving, said Henkin, of the Temple University center in Philadelphia, the dread of getting old persists. There's a lot of ageism in this country.
People are afraid of aging.
The more contact they have with older people, they'll understand that life's a series of transitions, and there are options all along the way.