Ageful Living 

What are the criteria by which we should measure our ability to function fully as older adults? Recently, I traveled to Charlotte, N.C., to visit friends in my most recent former home town (I’m a native New Yorker). While there, I co-produced and participated in a local public radio program discussing the “Age-Friendly Cities and Communities” movement, comparing efforts in Charlotte with those in Portland, Ore., where I now live. It was a lively exchange among the program’s h

There's a real problem with equating the increasing growth of an older population with the effect of a tsunami. As we all know, there are...

We should adopt a militant approach toward abolishing ageism and its three insidious forms: discrimination, neglect, and abuse. Recently...

Mighty revolutions from little resolutions grow. It’s that time again, when we are pressured culturally to make a new start in our lives....