Disruptors Who Challenge the Myths of Aging Disrupt Aging
Disruptors Who Challenge the Myths of Aging, Disrupt Aging
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Motivated by his late grandfather’s suffering from Alzheimer’s, that sends a smartphone alert when its wearer gets out of bed. He tested the first prototype with his grandfather. It worked! Kenneth feels that his age has never limited him. That’s a confident teenage disruptor!
Birthdays mean little to jazz icon Shorter. At 82, he’s too busy breaking down barriers of all kinds — demolishing barriers between classical music and jazz — and any myths about slowing down with age. Shorter is the owner of ten Grammy Awards and, as a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow, he is writing new symphonic compositions.
Lopez uploaded her first YouTube video five years ago with no intention of starting a business. But that’s what happened. Now she is host of All Crafts Channel, her six-figure revenue business is thriving — and so is 55-year-old entrepreneur Yolanda!
Nyad, in 2013, at age 64, became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida nonstop without a shark cage — in 53 grueling hours to make the 110-mile trek. At the “peak of my life,” Diana, 66, sees no limitation to life’s possibilities.
Trying to produce a film on the Rwandan genocide has changed LeFrak’s life. The film was never finished, but her heart remained with the female survivors. She started Same Sky, an online jewelry business employing those survivors as artisans — life-transforming for all involved. In March, the United Nations Women for Peace Association recognized LeFrak’s contributions with its annual Achievement Award.
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5 Disruptors Who Challenge the Myths of Aging
Five disruptors from AARP The Magazine' s June July issue – they re fearless inspiring and bold Pass it on
1 Kenneth Shinozuka 17
ChangemakerMotivated by his late grandfather’s suffering from Alzheimer’s, that sends a smartphone alert when its wearer gets out of bed. He tested the first prototype with his grandfather. It worked! Kenneth feels that his age has never limited him. That’s a confident teenage disruptor!
2 Wayne Shorter 82
Top of Their GameBirthdays mean little to jazz icon Shorter. At 82, he’s too busy breaking down barriers of all kinds — demolishing barriers between classical music and jazz — and any myths about slowing down with age. Shorter is the owner of ten Grammy Awards and, as a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow, he is writing new symphonic compositions.
3 Yolanda Soto Lopez 55
New PossibilitiesLopez uploaded her first YouTube video five years ago with no intention of starting a business. But that’s what happened. Now she is host of All Crafts Channel, her six-figure revenue business is thriving — and so is 55-year-old entrepreneur Yolanda!
4 Diana Nyad 66
Better Than EverNyad, in 2013, at age 64, became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida nonstop without a shark cage — in 53 grueling hours to make the 110-mile trek. At the “peak of my life,” Diana, 66, sees no limitation to life’s possibilities.
5 Francine LeFrak 67
New StrengthsTrying to produce a film on the Rwandan genocide has changed LeFrak’s life. The film was never finished, but her heart remained with the female survivors. She started Same Sky, an online jewelry business employing those survivors as artisans — life-transforming for all involved. In March, the United Nations Women for Peace Association recognized LeFrak’s contributions with its annual Achievement Award.
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