Baseball is a great game that reaches a crescendo in the late innings. Our later years should be just as rewarding.

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All of us want to age well in place, but not enough of us do.

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That’s not a bug in the health and social care system. It’s a feature of public policies that spend more to get us out of our homes than to keep us in them, and on expensive hospital stays more than on strategies to avoid needing them.

COVID decimated seniors in sub-par nursing homes, which should always be destinations of last resort. But the shock wore off and the clamour for major reform waned.

Baseball is the senior citizen among major professional sports. It, too, was governed by policies that compromised successful aging.

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People age successfully when they can retain their capacities and participate fully in life.

Professional sports leagues age successfully when they continue to attract new generations of fans, and athletic young people choose to play them.

When

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