17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
Americans in Their 80s and 90s Are Redefining Old Age
Three times a week, Hank Van Parys, 94, heads to the YMCA in Kingston, N.Y., where he leads a cardiovascular fitness class.
Van Parys joined the group back in 1980 when IBM, where he worked as a planner, offered the class as a perk. The workout, and the 1980s playlist that accompanies it, have not changed much, even as the people in the class have grown older. The five former IBM colleagues that remain regulars now range in age from 89 to 94. They call themselves the 'Kick-Ass Old Farts.'
