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Aging is not something to reverse. It’s something to understand, adapt to—and live fully. What does it really mean to age well? That was the question at the heart of Gray Panthers NYC’s July 2026 Transformation Tuesday conversation with Dr. Rosanne Leipzig, geriatrician, educator, and author of Honest Aging: An Insider’s Guide to the Second Half of Life. In conversation with Gray Panthers board member Ron Roel, Dr. Leipzig offered a refreshingly direct perspective on aging: n

As I’m drafting this, I am in the middle of a move, from one apartment to another. I love my new apartment, but… If I had mobility limitations, it would be either difficult or impossible (depending on the limitation) to live where I am moving to. To explain some more, I live on the second floor of my new building, and there is no elevator. That is not a problem for me, a person who is currently able-bodied. But that would be a problem if I struggled to move around, and im