RELATED: Second Memory Care Unit at Ozanam Hall of Queens Nursing Home Aims to Keep \u2018Changing Lives\u2019 for Alzheimer\u2019s Patients<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cWe want to get back to doing it again because it\u2019s such an important thing for the residents to be recognized,\u201d Sister Philip Ann explained. \u201cSo, now we want to be doing it every year again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Coiro, who grew up in lower Manhattan and attended St. Anthony of Padua Church, spent most of her adult life working for a company that made doll clothes. A long life has given her a large family, she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have grandchildren and great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
When asked for her secret to a long life, she joked about being cranky. But she said it with a smile.<\/p>\n
Another resident, Ann Feldman, said being 100 years old is \u201cas good as God gives me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her secret to longevity? \u201cI take it day by day. God wants me here,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Born and raised in East New York, Feldman worked as a secretary, and at one point during World War II, she was asked to travel to New Mexico to work for the Manhattan Project, the top-secret program in which the U.S. government was developing the atomic bomb. She turned down the job offer.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t want to leave my family,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n
The luncheon included a trivia contest in which residents were asked questions about the price of a loaf of bread in 1936 (10 cents) and the name of the U.S. president in 1946 (Harry S. Truman).<\/p>\n
The possibility of living past 100 is becoming more of a reality for Americans, according to a 2024 Pew Research Center study, which estimated that the population of people hitting the century mark is expected to quadruple over the next 30 years.<\/p>\n
That same Pew Research Center cited statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau, which found that in 2024, 101,000 people in the U.S. were age 100 or older, 78% of whom were women.<\/p>\n
As for the folks at Ozanam Hall, Sister Philip Ann said the level of care the residents receive there might be at least partly responsible for their longevity.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything about being here is geared toward maintaining themselves in their lifestyle,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n
The centenarians have a lot to teach younger people, Sister Philip Ann said: \u201cIt\u2019s about love and about being grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAYSIDE \u2014 Rose Coiro has experienced a century of life but says she doesn\u2019t feel 100 years old.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-267379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}