Ageful Living 

As time passes, caregivers will need greater recognition, acceptance, and support from all parts of our society. In Part 1, I presented...

It's not a disease or disability. It's the future of health care. On November 26, 2002, The Charlotte Observer published the following...

While we’re teaching elementary students how to read and do math, we should add lessons on the benefits of Aging, Belonging, and...

Instead of creating a new “warning” symbol depicting older adults, why have one at all? Four months ago, the Centre for Ageing Better in...

One huge impact of this pandemic might just be a gradual integration of the positive qualities of elderhood into the rest of society. In...

Gen Xers have their own views of aging and ways to counteract discrimination. The recent “OK, Boomer” meme is just the latest example of...

Strategies that are interdependent, intergenerational, and intersectional can help abolish ageism. After decades of struggle, pro-aging...

How the iconic singer has chosen to live exemplifies three basic realities of the older adult experience: adaptability, resourcefulness,...

Dedicated grassroots activists and innovative organizational campaigns are fighting to end age discrimination. In 2011, it was Occupy...

What if we re-examine how we evaluate age-appropriate behaviors and we actively "stir up" our collective culture to allow greater...

I invite you to join me in improvising our way through these later years. It's easier than you think. All you have to do is answer this...

We commit a great social injustice by failing to recognize and accept the variety of ways to be a child, or a teen, or a middle-aged...

Do older adults inevitably acquire a special kind of inner knowledge, or is this a mere stereotype? Is there such a thing as “elder...

There’s no doubt that being a mentor carries responsibilities. But so, too, does being a mentee. Here’s part of a conversation I...

More broadly than any other time since the Civil War, Americans have experienced domestically the human impulse to “otherize.” Red....

When is it ever acceptable to ask a person’s age? In other words, when is the question relevant? “How old are you?” I was asked this...

It was precisely because of my grandmother’s positive influence in my life that older adults were never invisible to me. When I was a...

Generations are different because of the experiences of their formative years and how they adapted to them. When is it accurate, and...

Human development urges us to evolve into beings with greater experience, wider perceptions, newer capabilities, and fresher...

For many elders, meeting the expectation to be middle-aged is undesirable and insulting. We who are old know that age is more than...