Here’s a little exercise that all of us should do periodically: close your eyes and say the word "Seniors". Then hold on to the first image that comes to your mind.

If I were someone who regularly wagered, I’d bet that the majority of us have an image of a very old, infirm, frail, wrinkled, possibly poor, sexless individual with gray or no hair. Most of us reflexively conjure up images of this nature because all of our lives we have been spoon fed the idea that aging is an undesirable state of being. We mostly see aging in terms of its downside, as if it were a form of poverty much more devastating than financial poverty.