Shirley Hodes, 106, and her sister Ruth Sweedler, 103, don’t routinely do crossword puzzles, but both have stayed sharp as they aged — here’s their best advice
," she says. She was an amateur actress in local theater productions and stayed"very active" in both her synagogue and in various Jewish organizations.
If you're lucky enough to have work you enjoy, embrace it, she says: Being engrossed in what you do"is very important."2. Connect "The people you're surrounded with, friends, relatives, family," she adds, they have an outsized effect on you."That's what you'll remember the most."Although Sweedler's husband, too, has passed away, othershe has cultivated have lasted for decades."I like to have friends. I love people." The former president of her congregation still comes to visit her, she says, as does the rabbi.
Nowadays, she says,"I don't watch television, except for news. I watch PBS at night." Her favorite TV show is"60 Minutes" on CBS."Older people can get absorbed in themselves when you have ailments and such. That can make it hard to have an open mind," says Hodes. ."They're quite different from my background," and that makes the content exciting:"There's always so much to learn!"Hodes never had the opportunity to go to college when she was young. It's one of her few regrets. She and Sweedler were the youngest of eight children in a cramped apartment; their parents were immigrants who had to scrape to get by. "We had to be careful because there were so many of us," she says.
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