How Old Is Too Old To Be President? | The Agenda

The standard story of old age is a period of cognitive decline. 86 per cent of Americans seem to agree with this story. They think 81-year-old President Biden is too old to serve another term. And another 62 per cent think the same of 77-year-old Donald Trump. But is this standard story of the aging brain wrong? Do some of our cognitive capacities actually improve in old age? Do we actually become more cognitively and mentally capable of leadership as we grow older? The Agenda looks at the science of the aging brain.

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