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'A Lovely Feeling': Celebrating Older Women With Fabulous Style

Ilona Royce Smithkin, 93, cut her red hair to make her eyelashes.
Courtesy of Ari Seth Cohen
Ilona Royce Smithkin, 93, cut her red hair to make her eyelashes.

Blogger Ari Seth Cohen with Ilona Royce Smithkin, 93, one of his most famous subjects.
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Blogger Ari Seth Cohen with Ilona Royce Smithkin, 93, one of his most famous subjects.

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Ina Jaffe is a veteran NPR correspondent covering the aging of America. Her stories on Morning Edition and All Things Considered have focused on older adults' involvement in politics and elections, dating and divorce, work and retirement, fashion and sports, as well as issues affecting long term care and end of life choices. In 2015, she was named one of the nation's top "Influencers in Aging" by PBS publication Next Avenue, which wrote "Jaffe has reinvented reporting on aging."