Primary Education Topic:
Leadership in Aging
Other Education Topics:
Legal & Ethical Issues
Policy and Advocacy
An ageism expert’s take on the urgent need to confront our biases around age and aging and catalyze social change.
By Ashton Applewhite
Aging is life itself. That’s what makes it so damn interesting. But you wouldn’t know it from all the hand-wringing on the part of most Americans when it comes to the prospect. “Hey, it beats the alternative,” we mutter reflexively. What does that saying actually mean? The only thing worse than being old is being dead.
