Title: 10 Stereotypes About Aging (That Just Aren't True) | HowStuffWorks
Headings: 10 Stereotypes About Aging (That Just Aren't True)
10 Stereotypes About Aging (That Just Aren't True)
10: Older People Aren't Interested in the Outside World
Our Shared Human Condition
9: Older People Don't Want or Need Close Relationships
8: Older People Contribute Little to Society
Do less-industrialized societies treat the elderly better?
7: As You Get Older, You Get More Set in Your Ways
Are all old people are the same?
6: Mental and Physical Deterioration Are Inevitable in Old Age
5: Older People Are Comfortable Financially
4: Older People Aren't Interested in Sex or Intimacy
3: Older People Can't Make Good Decisions about Important Issues
2: Older People Want to Die
1: Science Has Answered All Our Questions about Aging

Content: Treatment of the elderly depends largely on their perceived usefulness to society. In hunter/gatherer cultures, for example, an older or infirm person is more likely to be denied care, even to the point that it hastens death. Elders are more likely to receive life-extending care in agricultural or industrialized societies. 7: As You Get Older, You Get More Set in Your Ways
Evidence from a number of fronts has shown that older adults are more open to change than the popular image might lead you to believe. For example, the number of people ages 65 and older who use Twitter nearly doubled from 2009 to 2010 [source: Madden ]. And more unmarried older couples are choosing cohabitation over marriage compared to previous generations, and even compared to today's younger couples. On a deeper level, older people tend to have high levels of mental resilience, which is the ability to accept and rebound from adversity [source: Berk ].