This is Pat Moore. She is 31 dressed as an older woman. She took to the streets across the country to learn the lessons of aging. She was mugged in New York City, stoned in Clearwater, Florida and shunned most everywhere else. She went shopping in her disguise and couldn't reach the food on the top shelf with her special eye drops. She couldn't read the small print on the labels. Pat Moore endured three years of insults, kindness and frustration. She discovered an attitude toward the elderly that permeates most facets of American society. The motivation was born out of pure frustration watching what was happening in New York City, which is the capital of engineering and design in this country and realizing that we were deliberately designing *** Darwinian society. The survival of the fittest. Pat Moore is trying to change that attitude by advising firms on product designs that won't keep anybody from using them. She will relate her experiences as an older American to the Governor's conference on Aging Tomorrow in Lincoln from the Capitol Bureau for news watch 75. I'm Karen