{"id":538547,"date":"2026-03-22T12:28:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T12:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/538547\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T12:28:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T12:28:06","slug":"i-want-to-avoid-the-aging-mistakes-my-parents-made-ive-got-work-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/538547\/","title":{"rendered":"I want to avoid the \u2018aging mistakes\u2019 my parents made. I\u2019ve got work to do."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"6YQSTOZQRNGKLJX3KZFZV5TM2A\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Wow, time flies. Nearly 20 years ago, soon after my 50th birthday, I started making a list of what I considered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2024\/04\/06\/better-aging-falling-hearing-aids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">mistakes my parents<\/a> (and many of their generation) had made as they aged \u2014 and that I swore I would not repeat. Some of the items were silly (\u201cI won\u2019t color my hair anymore\u201d), but most of them had substance (\u201cI won\u2019t limit myself to friends my own age\u201d and \u201cI won\u2019t worry about what I can\u2019t control\u201d), and a few took the needs of family into account (\u201cI won\u2019t keep driving when I become a threat to others\u201d and \u201cI won\u2019t deny the fact that I need hearing aids\u201d).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wow, time flies. Nearly 20 years ago, soon after my 50th birthday, I started making a list of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97],"class_list":{"0":"post-538547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}