The graph below shows how elderly people in the United States spent their free time between 1980 and 2010.

The line graph illustrates how older adults spent their leisure time from 1980 to 2010. It can be seen that senior citizens occupy themselves by mostly watching TV and hiking,

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going to theatre plays, and surfing the internet. Trekking has become popular with elders, despite the initial low percentage. The evidence is that it rocked from 20% and quadrupled to 80% , explaining they turned into hikers in over three decades.

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, technology development impacted them through the internet, exploring the social world has increased rapidly after the 2000s, reaching 50, despite being

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the lowest one.

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viewing television has slightly decreased to 65% , after being the frontrunner for 20 years, has become second.

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, reading and watching productions have been changing constantly for 30 years. Specifically, engaging with books has fluctuated up and down by 10%;

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, it climbed to 60% after the 2000s.

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, live performance’s trendiness became stable after dipping to 30% in the 1990s.

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, retirees started to devote their personal time to hiking, reading, and surfing the internet. The trends of watching TV, and theatre became steady in the period of the survey. I believe that online has become part of their life.

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, I predict that they tend to be healthy by walking in the mountains and wake brains by studying