We look to the USA to lead the way with TV women in their 60s, 70s and 80s - and it's true they are inspirational - but the point is they don't look like OAPs and go to great lengths to keep any sign of aging at bay.
And plunged the towers of silence – and an aging community – into seismic controversy.
This interestingly-timed Instagram post from her husband featuring Crawford in a bikini and looking more taut than the unretouched picture makes me think that's not the case, and that she'd rather not be the poster girl for aging "naturally".
She was also inspired by a "wonderful" book: David Snowdon's Aging with Grace about the effects of ageing on the brain in relation to Alzheimer's, based on a "study in midwest America of several hundred nuns who donated their brains after death".
Traditionalism is an aging community's security blanket, most of all in matters of the imminent after-life.
Budget pressures and increasing demand from an aging population are forcing hospitals and NHS trusts around the country to do more with less.
As a result, owners feel no compulsion to replace their aging PCs.
Moreover, the drop in the unemployment rate has been helped by a coincident fall in the labour force participation rate as aging baby boomers retire and some of the long-term unemployed give up the search for work.
Almost none of the aging leaders in Amman presides over an economy that can provide these swarming youths with jobs.
But, according to a paper by Ellen Bialystok, of York University in Canada, and her colleagues, in this month's issue of Psychology and Aging, it is useful not just for the obvious reason that it makes it possible to talk to more people.
But here is a line of initial speculation that I bet will lead nowhere and should be played down: suggesting that the airplane itself, a Russian-made Tupolev-154 that will probably be described as some aging rustbucket overdue for replacement, was the "cause" of the crash.... Maybe there will prove to have been something wrong with this airplane.
