Ageful Living 

One huge impact of this pandemic might just be a gradual integration of the positive qualities of elderhood into the rest of society. In a March 18 opinion p...

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

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

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 very simple question....

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 adult...or an old person...

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

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

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

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 question recently at the...

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 toddler, I used to sit ...

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

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

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

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 journaling, memoir w...

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

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

Dick and Jane have reached elderhood. What scenarios are they living or want to live? See Spot run. Run, Spot, run! If you were in elementary school in the 1...