He is 78 years old and the oldest American president ever elected and also the most resilient.
He lost his wife and thirteen month old daughter in a car accident.
He raised his first wife's two children alone, one of whom later died of a brain tumor.
"The pandemic has opened the Pandora's box of the elderly condition in the world today and of the conflicting considerations about it. Biden is proof that the theory according to which the elderly are less indispensable than the young for society, inadvertently filtered by the Ligurian governor Toti, does not find confirmation in reality "- to say this is Raffaele Antonelli Incalzi, president of the Italian Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics (SIGG) in reference to the election of Joe Biden that has just taken place -" Thanks to well-being, medical progress and improvement overall quality of life, often elderly well over 80 years, in enviable health conditions, are present in the circuit of sociality, culture and even politics. It is not a question of gerontocracy in power - adds Antonelli Incalzi - but of the demonstration that confining and excluding elderly people from social life, albeit with the intent of protecting them from Covid, would not only risk
to worsen their health conditions, including mental health, but would deprive society of an ideal and practical resource whose value many do not realize ".
"Biden also represents the best testimony of resilience in old age, that is, the ability to adapt and overcome the wounds of the past that can severely affect anyone's life. Indeed, a man who has overcome a series of personal dramatic events and now becomes president of the USA, at the age of 78, provides proof of having solid and well-structured values that will allow a recovery of that relational dimension and that ability to listen to others that the Trump presidency has substantially abandoned "underlines Antonelli Incalzi.
Queen Elizabeth II is 94, Mattarella is 80 and Pope Francis will turn 84 on December 17 "These are positions of responsibility, capable of changing the fate of the planet, which are held by the elderly now no longer in the third but in the fourth age, it makes us fully understand how having an active and relational life can allow not only a healthy but also a successful old age "concludes Antonelli Incalzi.