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Some people get bummed out about their birthdays and say stuff like, oh, I'm getting so old.

But I actually have loved getting older, the sense of perspective, of time passing, and older

people are just cool. Ipsit Bahia agrees., and older people are just cool.

Ipsit Bahia agrees.

I think older people have the coolest stories, and I could spend the rest of our time together

just telling you cool stories I've heard over the years from my patients and the people I work with.

Ipsid is from a family of psychiatrists, and all four of his grandparents lived well into their 80s and 90s.

So all four of my grandparents were at my medical school graduation, which was just

unusual and really special.

And the specialty he chose was geriatric psychiatry because he wanted to care for the mental

and emotional health of older people, people his grandparents' age.

I started to see them lose a step as they got older, but I also saw what they retained and the

ways in which they just seemed to get funnier and sharper, and they just seem to have, like,

wisdom and perspectives to give.

Now, as the chief of geriatric psychiatry at McLean Hospital,

Ipsett has had a front row seat to one of the biggest transformations in life after 65,

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