this week
Choosing the narrative forges our views, the very idea of ourselves, and therefore the direction of our future, points out Annie Brewster, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, practicing internist at Massachusetts General Hospital, founder of Health Story Collaborative, and author
Annie Brewster
Find your joy
Karen Meenan, co-founder and director of Lewy Body Ireland, Senior Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health offers a new take on the challenges of dementia and the meaning of inclusion
Stay clear of the geronticidal language
Both positive and negative stereotypes paint a simplistic picture and contribute to the depersonalization of older adults, says Elena Del Barrio, co-director and researcher at the Spanish Matia Institute
Question the system
In a striking parallel to the life of old people today, Simon Jarrett, researcher and author, retraces the 300 year-long history of the institutionalization of people with learning disabilities
We need younger people to see the issues of age stereotyping
Paul Nash, Instructional Associate Professor of Gerontology at the University of South California talks about Critical Questions for Aging Societies, the book he co-authored with Gemma Gemma Carney, Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work at the Queen’s University of Belfast
Aging doesn’t happen in a vacuum
Professor Andreas Kruse, Director of the Institute of Gerontology at the Heidelberg University explores aging in the light of Erik Erikson’s theory
Ageism is an unchallenged "ism"
There are 27 different definitions of ageism. Professor Per Erick Solem breaks down the concept and reveals its components and subtle workings
We need to move the focus from age to needs
Thomas Scharf, Professor of Social Gerontology in the Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, President of the British Society of Gerontology talks about the pandemic and ageism
Aging for men is a quest for a new identity
Josep M. Armengol Carrera, Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Project Coordinator of MascAge talks about men and ageism
Make your life an act of creative resistance
Aging is not a matter of success versus failure, says Roberta Maierhofer, Professor of American Studies at the University of Graz
Tame the cultural dominance of chronometric age
Jan Baars, Dutch Professor of Interpretative Gerontology, inquires about the effect of time on the perception of aging
There’s more than prejudice behind ageism
Paul Higgs, Professor of Sociology of Aging at the University College of London talks about the contradictory components of age- based discrimination