Artful Aging（年歲在長，創造力不減）

　　Don‘t ever assume your best work is behind you. Creativity often peaks in our later years.

　　On his desk at the University of Kentucky，Prof. David Snowdon displays an artistic treasure：a ceramic sculpture of Santa Claus perched atop a John Deere tractor. The artist，Sister Esther Boor，gave it to him before her death in 2002. At 107，she was the oldest participant in the research project Snowdon directs，the university‘s groundbreaking Num Study. Since its start in 1986，the program has investigated the relationship between aging and Alzheimer’s disease by tracking the health of 678 Roman Catholic nuns over 70. Sister Esther took up ceramics after she retired at 97. Snowdon cherishes her reply on first being asked to join the project：“She said she was too busy to be in a study of old people.”

　　Snowdon still isn‘t sure what kept Sister Esther so vibrant for so many years. But the secret of her kind of sustained creative energy is an increasingly valuable one. People are living longer lives than ever before. What matters now is to make those extra years more fulfilling

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