Exceeding 
Expectations

Many of the 20 older New Yorkers whose lives are chronicled by Exceeding Expectations met each other for the first time on October 24,...

Sylvia Lask's determination to burn up miles of Bronx streets with her walker made FitBit, the company responsible for the popular...

Jacquie Murdock, a dancer, model, and Jazz enthusiast, was legally blind when we first met her two years ago, but she was able to get...

Exceeding Expectation's own George Blomme and Doug McClure were featured on WeddingWire.com in 2017. By: Dorian Block George Blomme, 82,...

"I am in a room of veterans of a life I’m still figuring out." by Dorian Block Originally published in Scary Mommy The elevator is tight....

Luis Cajigas died at age 87, on April 23, 2017. Luis shared his life with us for the past two years through the Exceeding Expectations...

As you can read in Rosa's story, Medicare, the U.S.'s health insurance for people over 65, does not cover certain common and key expenses...

The "One City" section of our site intends to give you a bit more context to the stories in Exceeding Expectations. Often we will put an...

Put simply, life expectancy is the average number of years a person of any given age will live. Usually, people talk about life...