{"id":2014,"date":"2026-05-30T16:13:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T13:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imgist.ru\/90-letnij-alan-alda-govorit-chto-ponyal-chto-star-kogda-ego-docheri-stali-poluchat-mediczinskuyu-pomoshh-po-programme-medicare\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T11:10:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T08:10:29","slug":"90-year-old-alan-alda-says-he-realized-he-was-a-star-when-his-daughters-began-receiving-medicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imgist.ru\/en\/90-letnij-alan-alda-govorit-chto-ponyal-chto-star-kogda-ego-docheri-stali-poluchat-mediczinskuyu-pomoshh-po-programme-medicare\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Alda, 90, says he realized he was old when his daughters started receiving Medicare."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>NEED TO KNOW <\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p> Alan Alda reflected on aging and said he realized his age when his daughters started receiving Medicare. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p> Star of the series <em>\u00abM*A*S*H\u00bb<\/em> celebrated his 90th birthday in January. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p> The actor also spoke about his life with Parkinson&#039;s disease.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Alan Alda is open about aging.<\/p>\n<p> At the event &quot;Alan Alda, Joy Behar, and Roger Rosenblatt in Conversation: The New Rules of Aging,&quot; which took place at New York City&#039;s 92NY club on Thursday, May 21, the star of the series <em>\u00abM*A*S*H\u00bb<\/em> spoke about his life at 90 years old. <\/p>\n<p> \u00ab&quot;The realization that you&#039;re old comes when you, like me, discover you have three daughters, all of whom are on Medicare,&quot; the actor explained, referring to daughters Eva (67), Elizabeth (65), and Beatrice (64). .<\/p>\n<p> Alan has children with his wife, Arlene Alda, whom he married in 1957. <\/p>\n<p> Alan Alda and his wife, Arlene Alda, in 2019. Photo: Charlie Galley\/Getty<\/p>\n<p> \u00ab&quot;But people tell you, the whole world tells you, that you&#039;re older. I don&#039;t count my age by the number of years I&#039;ve lived. I count it by how many times a day someone asks, &#039;How can I help you?&#039;&quot; Alan added.<\/p>\n<p> Alana, who was diagnosed with Parkinson&#039;s disease in 2015, publicly announced the diagnosis in 2018. Since then, Alda has continued to act in films, receiving support from Arlene. <\/p>\n<p> They married when Alan was 21. As the story goes, they met at a party when they were the only two people eating a cake that had fallen on the floor.<\/p>\n<p> \u00ab&quot;We ate rum pie off the floor and were inseparable after that. But I was captivated by her even earlier, when I heard her laughing at my jokes at the end of the table. She captivated me at first sight,&quot; he wrote on X. <\/p>\n<p> Alan Alda in 2020. Photo: Rodin Eckenroth\/FilmMagic<\/p>\n<p> During an event on May 21, Alan announced that he would celebrate his 90th birthday on January 28.<\/p>\n<p> \u00ab&quot;I was just thinking about that day, the very day I turned 90,&quot; he recalled. &quot;We went out to dinner, and at the end of the meal, the waiter came over with a cake with a candle and started singing, saying, &#039;Happy birthday, old gentleman.&#039; Then I blew out the candle, and they said, &#039;You did that yourself. I didn&#039;t help you.&#039; They kind of made that clear.&quot;. <\/p>\n<p> His grandson, Jake Alda Coffey, shared a sweet photo of Alan from the celebratory dinner on his social media account. &quot;Happy 90th birthday to my grandpa!! He&#039;s my biggest role model,&quot; Coffey captioned the photo. In another post, Alan is seen enjoying birthday cake with his family.<\/p>\n<p> \u00ab&quot;My grandfather was so touched by all the love he received today,&quot; Coffey added. &quot;We spent a quiet evening celebrating his 90th birthday, full of laughter. After dinner, we went home and had rum cake baked by his friend. The perfect way to end the evening.&quot;.<\/p>\n<p> Rosenblatt, 86, later asked Alda what he &quot;liked&quot; about being able to &quot;look back on my life&quot; and &quot;think about myself not in an egotistical, artistic way, but just in a general biographical way.&quot;.<\/p>\n<p> Alan replied, &quot;I mean, I&#039;m more interested in reality than in feeling sorry for you... I have Parkinson&#039;s. For me, it&#039;s a puzzle game. I mean, the really interesting puzzle is, how do you put your pants on without falling on the floor?&quot;\u00ab <\/p>\n<p> In May 2025, Alan told PEOPLE that he was &quot;making progress,&quot; then jokingly added, &quot;I didn&#039;t say in what direction.&quot;.<\/p>\n<p> Alan suffers from face blindness, the inability to recognize familiar faces, known as prosopagnosia, which impacts his daily life.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Don&#039;t miss a beat\u2014sign up for PEOPLE&#039;s free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> \u00ab&quot;Almost every day I find a new way to do something,&quot; he said. &quot;It&#039;s a bit like a game. I find some little problem, and if I keep at it, I&#039;ll eventually solve it, and then I&#039;ll feel like a million bucks. It&#039;s a way to have fun in difficult circumstances.&quot;. <\/p>\n<p> Alan added that Parkinson&#039;s disease &quot;has gone from being a part-time job to a full-time job, dealing with all these little solutions. But it makes me always find the fun in it.&quot;.<\/p>\n<p> Read the original article on People.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEED TO KNOW Alan Alda reflected on aging and revealed that he realized his age when his daughters started receiving Medicare. 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