What if a doctor treated an aging person like they were young?

Fascinating articles appear when people think about their world and turn it upside down. One such article published in the New York Times features a doctor who started to notice how active many of his elderly patients are. Dr. Mikkael Sekeres may have assumed that as we age, our activity level drops and we are content watching TV or reading books however a 90 year old patient who bowled 138 and her 93 year old husband who jumps rope 200 times each day got him thinking. His article is a thought provoking lesson about whether health care providers serve elderly populations well by making assumptions.