40: TheOlderFolk.com Creator Sam the Senior

Robert Kaplan, aka Sam the Senior, is the creator of TheOlderFolk.com, an acknowledgement of humor-infused reality on being a senior citizen. The website and Instagram account feature aspects of his life – some in cartoon posts – that articulate the quirky realities of getting older as well as lessons about healthy habits aimed to encourage longevity.

In this interview, Sam the Senior talks about his work with the aging population as a traveling optician prior to starting the site as well as some of the fictional characters developed previously about healthy living. One of those characters is Healthy Man, depicted in The Healthy Man Handbook. Sam the Senior also talks about some of the content on theolderfolk.com that's generated positive feedback and shares what he hopes to accomplish with the site longterm.

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Sam the Senior's Recommendation:
- Hemingway

Shuva's Recommendation:
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

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