The effect on the presidential candidates of aging is currently a hot political topic. Almost everyone commenting on the subject has an axe to grind, a conclusion he wants people to reach, which makes it hard to know what claims to believe. I, however, have a source of information on the subject that, though limited ' my sample size is one ' I can at least trust, since it is my own experience. I am a year older than Donald Trump, two years younger than Joe Biden, so my first hand evidence of the effect of aging on me may be at least relevant to the effect on them. (Effects of Aging, Jul 07, 2024) After Biden's collapse neither party is likely to nominate another ancient any time soon so the effect of aging is not currently a hot political topic but it still matters for individuals. Also for societies; life expectancies are going up and birth rates down, which means that an increasing fraction of the world's population is going to be old.[1] How will the world be different as a...
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