Older workers are always more cheerful and enthusiastic. Physical strength and speed improve with age. Older workers are more productive than younger workers. Older workers as a group are more dependable and have lower turnover rates, fewer absences and better safety records than younger workers. Taste sensations tend to sharpen.
Vision is often the first sense affected by aging.
As eyes age, it may become more difficult to tell the color red from the color blue. Children aged birth to 14 b. People 75 and over c. People age 85 and older 6. About one in 15. About one in 10. 7.