They are over 80, 90, and even 100, yet their minds are as sharp as those of people decades younger. Superagers challenge everything we assume about aging.

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When she was 88, Hilda Jaffe decided to open a new chapter in her life.
She sold her home in New Jersey and moved to a one‑bedroom apartment in the heart of Manhattan. At over 100 years old, Jaffe has been a longtime volunteer tour and exhibition guide at the historic New York Public Library. She cleans her small apartment by herself and walks about half a mile from her home to the library, and to local grocery stores, carrying her groceries home.
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