Judy Kugel currently is a columnist at The Boston Globe, writing regularly on issues related to aging.  JUDY Retired AS Associate Dean of Students at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. She has helped people to make life choices since 1970 when she co-founded the Boston Project for Careers, one of the first organizations to promote job-sharing for professionals.

Her personal essays and travel articles have appeared in major newspapers, magazines and on several websites and on her twice-weekly blog at www.70-something.com  Her latest post was her 1,627th.

A graduate of the University of Michigan with a B.A. in Political Science, she holds an M.Ed. in Counseling Psychology from Boston College and  is the author of 70-Something:  Life, Love and Limits in the Bonus Years.

Judy and I talk about whether we older adults are our own worst enemies when it comes to ageism, and how our perception about age changes as we get older. We talk about eating healthfully, exercising and training our brains, her blog and her book 0-Something: Life, Love and Limits in the Bonus Years. Judy advises us to wring the most out of every day and be grateful

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