Amish People Stay Healthy in Old Age. Here's Their Secret

Regarding the caring for elderly part of this article, I want to write a story that's like the Ricky Gervais movie, The Invention of Lying, but instead, it's about the first person to build their own house. Until then, everybody lives in big houses of a hundred or more, sharing responsibilities and taking care of each other but still free to move to different houses if they find a better fit.

I think there's a lot to explore in the effects of isolation that we experience living in our own houses that people are made to think is the only way to live. "A house for every family" is an ideal that many people as virtuous but I think it's instrumental to lots of the problems of our society.

I knew the answer before I opened the article. They move a lot more and generally have a better diet and therefore obesity rates are much lower. I say generally a better diet because some Amish communities have high rates of malnutrition among children, however this is not by any means universal.

Americans would probably have an average life expectancy of 85 if obesity rates weren’t so high.

They eat a lot of fermented foods which helps them out too.

It makes sense that societies in which identity is built around working for capitalists would have more trouble with Old Age than societies in which identity (a) is not as much a thing, cf Gelassenheit, and (b) is, no matter one's age, directed towards accumulation "where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt".

From the other contrasting direction, cf Brave New World, in which Old Age simply does not exist.