Successful Aging: Does age reduce our creativity – or enhance it?

Q. Please settle an argument for me. My husband insists that we get less creative as we get older. I say no – that age has nothing to do with creativity. My husband is an engineer and I am a teacher. We both are 65 years old. Who is right? S.P.
Dear S.P.
Actually, you both are right! The answer to your question depends on how you define creativity.
In 1953, Harvey C. Lehman found that the number of creative products a person produces increases with age until there is a peak. Then productiv