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Mar 3
4 min

Let's Teach These ABCs, Too

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

Jan 23
4 min

An Iconic Solution

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

Apr 9, 2020
4 min

Could Appreciation of Old Age Go Viral?

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

Feb 19, 2020
4 min

Ageism: The Next Generation

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

Jul 8, 2019
4 min

Building Toward Age Equity: Three "Inter"-Changing Models

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

May 21, 2019
3 min

The Tony Bennett Effect

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

Nov 12, 2018
4 min

What’s Fueling the Anti-Ageism Movement?

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

Oct 16, 2018
2 min

Grains of Truth

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

Jul 31, 2018
3 min

What's Your "And"?

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...

Apr 10, 2018
3 min

The "Wow" Factor

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...

Jul 7, 2017
5 min

Does "Elder Wisdom" Exist?

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

Apr 22, 2017
4 min

Caveat mentor

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

Dec 9, 2016
3 min

Embracing the Spectrum

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

Oct 26, 2016
3 min

On Asking "the Question"

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...

Aug 16, 2016
3 min

A Guiding Star

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...

Jun 22, 2016
4 min

Speaking of Generations...

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

Jan 28, 2016
3 min

A Case for “Re-generation”

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

Oct 8, 2015
3 min

A Thought Experiment on Aging

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

Aug 17, 2015
4 min

Roots, Shoots, and Fruits

Here’s a fun and revealing way to explore what influences and inspires you –– no matter how old you are. In the workshops I facilitate on...

Apr 16, 2015
5 min

Six Ways Elders Can Save the World

Elders can save our societies and the world --- by playing indispensable roles. For his book What Are Old People For?, Bill Thomas chose...

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