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Nearly 3,000 adults were surveyed on aspects of everyday life with comparisons among four age subgroups (18-29, 30-49, 50-64, 65+ years) as to expectations of the three younger groups and the actual experiences of the older group. The younger groups expect that the negative benchmarks of aging (i.e., memory loss, inability to drive, struggles with loneliness, illness) will be part of their later lives more frequently than is the reality as reported by the actual experiences of the older group. For example, 57% of the younger group (n = 1,631) expected memory...