Search Results for: Lying about my age

Lying About My Age

August 13, 2015 | Warren Adler, ChangingAging Guest Blogger

I am seriously thinking about lying about my age. Of course it’s impossible. The internet has my age engraved in perpetuity.

The Jack Benny Syndrome

September 9, 2015 | Jeanette Leardi, ChangingAging Contributor

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about age stereotypes and their relationship to our willingness –– or reluctance –– to be ourselves.

Do You Feel Your Age?

June 14, 2016 | Christina Pierpaoli, ChangingAging Contributor

Simply asking a person how old he or she feels may yield rich insights into the physical and mental state of the individual, experience with getting older or, more specifically, with managing a disability.

The Manifesto Against Ageism is Here

March 15, 2016 | Kavan Peterson, Editor, ChangingAging.org

About eight years ago, Ashton Applewhite began interviewing people over 80 for a project called “So when are you going to retire?” It didn’t take her long to realize that almost everything she thought she knew about aging was wrong. So she wrote a book to set the record straight.

Who’s Going to Create a Better Narrative of Old Age in America?

August 14, 2018 | Ashton Applewhite

Changing the culture is hard, and it involves struggle. That struggle doesn’t start in a shopping cart, whether online or at Walmart. It starts between our ears, with the uncomfortable task of confronting our own, largely unconscious, age bias.

Massachusetts: Where Age-Friendly Is All-Friendly

April 14, 2016 | Meg LaPorte, ChangingAging Contributor

With the help of the Tufts Health Plan Foundation, Massachusetts has become a bit of a standout star within the age-friendly community movement.

Let’s Improvise! Navigating dementia (and pandemics) with creativity, humanity and growth

May 18, 2020 | Mary Fridley and Susan Massad

How improvisation gives us a powerful tool for moving from “How things should be” to “What can we create given what exists?” – and the most humanizing shot at relating to the strangeness, the fluidity and the uncertainty of dementia (and pandemic life) in ways that promote intimacy and growth rather than frustration and humiliation.

Head in the Sand

May 1, 2018 | Eilon Caspi, ChangingAging Guestblogger

A historical review of major warning signs for the current crisis over the past 20 years (1997-2018) including, among others, findings from government investigations and large-scale research studies as well as opinions of leading national experts. The lack of basic protections for vulnerable and frail residents – many of whom living with dementia – in this rapidly growing but registration-only assisted living industry in Minnesota places these individuals at risk of abuse, neglect, avoidable accidents, financial exploitation, and other forms of harm.