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Jeanette Leardi, ChangingAging Contributor

What's Your "And"? - ChangingAging

What’s Your “And”?

July 31, 2018 | Jeanette Leardi, ChangingAging Contributor

For improvisers, Yes And means you accept what the other player presents you with, without blocking it or denying it, and then you react constructively to it. You add to it. I invite you to join me in improvising our way through these later years. It’s easier than you think.

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The Wow Factor

April 10, 2018 | Jeanette Leardi, ChangingAging Contributor

There’s a strange pattern here. We’re surprised by young people who display what we consider to be the kind of sophistication and wisdom that we associate only with experience and age, as well as by elders who display the physical stamina, prowess, and productivity of people decades younger. It’s as if to be young means only to be strong and to be old means only to be wise.

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Another Look at “Successful Aging”

February 22, 2018 | Jeanette Leardi, ChangingAging Contributor

Every time we assign the sole responsibility of aging well to an individual, we disregard that person’s uniqueness in a very unrealistic and unjust way. Each of us has gone through a combination of biological and socioeconomic experiences that have affected us at every turn.

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Making Things Anew

January 10, 2018 | Jeanette Leardi, ChangingAging Contributor

Regardless of how we feel about our lives during the course of a previous year, the arrival of a new one has the potential to inspire us with hope and a desire for change –– in ourselves and in the world around us

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It’s Time to Believe Older Adults, Too

December 8, 2017 | Jeanette Leardi, ChangingAging Contributor

Just as we are encouraged to believe those who report experiences of sexual harassment, so, too, should we believe older adults who report elder harassment in any of its forms. Ageism, too, is a spectrum of abuse. All of this is to say that harassment in any form, toward any person, and for any reason should not be justified or tolerated.

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From “Senior” to “Sully” Moment

October 18, 2017 | Jeanette Leardi, ChangingAging Contributor

As a social gerontologist, community educator, and writer, I am passionate about explaining how language affects –– in good or bad ways –– our perceptions of aging, and vice versa.

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Age and the Potential to Change

August 21, 2017 | Jeanette Leardi, ChangingAging Contributor

“He won’t change. What do you expect? He’s a 71-year-old man.” Lately I’ve been hearing this comment, or some version of it, on various cable and mainstream news programs, always referring to a certain Leader of the Free World / Commander in Chief / Current Inhabitant of the Oval Office.

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A New, Powerful Tool to Defeat Ageism

August 10, 2017 | Jeanette Leardi, ChangingAging Contributor

Ashton Applewhite, activist and author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism, recently delivered an 11-minute barn-burning TED Talk called “Let’s End Ageism” that is the clearest and most concise, entertaining, and impactful introduction to the scourge of ageism I’ve ever heard.

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