Where would we go first?

Wow.

Let's start with how do we move.

I would take you, first of all, with my golf cart, because most presidents use golf carts to move around the villages.

Actually, it's not only the biggest retirement community, it's also the biggest golf cart community around the world because almost every household has at least one golf cart, if not two.

And they have roads, like a network of roads, especially for the golf carts.

So you don't have to go in the main roads where the cars are.

We can handle that.

[laughs]

Yeah.

Okay.

Uh, about 20 years ago, uh, my colleague Doug Kleber from the University of, of Georgia and myself suggested a, a new theory, uh, of aging that suggests that, uh, starting new activities at old age can promote well-being in later life, and it can be done in two ways.

One way is, um, self-reinvention innovation, which means that you pick up a new activity that has nothing to do with your personal history, not interests, not skills, not relationships, okay? Something that is completely new.

Uh, for example, a lawyer that becomes, um, amateur chef, okay? Starting to cook and hosting dinners for his friends and, you know, starting to, to do it even though, uh, the person never did it before.

We also found, however, that there is another type of, uh, innovation, and that's picking up a new activity that is related in one way or another to past, uh, to the, the personal's past.

Uh, can you tell us about a resident whose story stayed with you long after you left?

Yeah.

[laughs] Yeah.

Okay.

Uh, about 20 years ago, uh, my colleague Doug Kleiber from the University in, of Georgia and myself suggested a, a new theory, uh, of aging that suggests that, uh, s- starting new activities at old age can promote wellbeing in later life, and it can be done in two ways.

One way is, um, self-reinvention innovation, which means that you pick up a new activity that has nothing to do with your personal history, not interests, not skills, not relationships, okay? Something that is completely new.

Uh, for example, a lawyer that becomes, um, amateur chef, okay, starting to cook and hosting dinners for his friends and, you know, starting to, to do it even though, uh, the person never did it before.

We also found, however, that there is another type of, uh, innovation, and that's picking up a new activity that is related in one way or another to past, uh, to the, the personal's past.

Uh, can you tell us about a resident whose story stayed with you long after you left?