Host of Bloom, Amber Freeman chatted with CEO of Selfhelp Community Services, Stuart Kaplan, and Founder of Booming Ageing Agency, Marcus Riley, to discuss their book Your Aging Advantage: The 7 New Stages of Aging.

For the first time in history, older adults outnumber younger generations in many countries, yet our ideas about aging are that it’s a just straight line toward limitation and decline. Your Aging Advantage: The 7 New Stages of Aging by Stuart Kaplan and Marcus Riley argues that this mismatch is no longer just outdated—it’s costly. We talk to Marcus about the details.

Older Americans Month — “What’s Your Feels-Like Age?” with Stuart Kaplan:Your Aging Advantage by Stuart Kaplan and Marcus Riley challenges the most fundamental assumption most people carry about getting older — that aging is something that happens to you, on a fixed timeline, in one direction. To learn more about the book click here.

Your Aging Advantage by Stuart Kaplan and Marcus Riley challenges the most fundamental assumption most people carry about getting older — that aging is something that happens to you.

Just a gentle note before we begin: today’s conversation includes ageing, increased care needs, services, housing decisions, and caregiver stress. Please listen in a way that feels supportive for you. You’re welcome to pause and come back at any time.

Age truly may be just a number. In a new book, the chief executive officer of Selfhelp in New York City asserts that our perceptions of our aging can be just as important as the reality.

The idea that aging is a steady, predictable process is being challenged by a new book, which describes a so-called “flicker stage” where some aspects of aging may briefly reverse.

Stuart Kaplan and Marcus Riley, authors of the book “Your Aging Advantage,” say aging may be more fluid than chronological age alone would suggest. They call this phenomenon the “flicker stage,” just one of seven stages of aging.

Age really is just a number sometimes.

And aging isn’t a linear process — our physical, cognitive and social functioning can jump back and forth between feeling younger or older.

This is known as the “flicker stage” that moves between vitality and decline, and it can help us get better with age.

Co- author of Your Aging Advantage: The 7 New Stages of Aging, Marcus Riley joins FOX 5 to tell us about how you can slow down aging.