The bigger rooms, excellent bedding and iPod docks aside, have the air of a Broadway chorus girl's bedsit, while the cabins are the very essence of steamers past.

BBC: Brand new old New York

His subjects include 100-year-old Ruth Kobin, who attributes her vitality to weekly pilates, and 81-year-old dancer Jacquie "Tajah" Murdock, who once worked as a typist by day and Apollo chorus girl by night.

CNN: Aging stylishly, online and in the streets

In the Catskills, the very old crept around the shells of the hotels where Ms Lux, a pretty chorus-girl, had once danced opposite Danny Kaye.

ECONOMIST: Lillian Lux