At the BBC website last week, Emma Jones spent some time surveying what may be the last film taboo, sex scenes with old people.
Shakespeare’s Old Age
TIME GOES BY — Perhaps Shakespeare’s judgment of old age was more nuanced and not nearly as negative as it is thought to be.
When Aging is a Good Thing
That headline, “When Aging is a Good Thing,” turned up earlier this week in the Wall Street Journal but hardly in a positive sense. Since the story is about aged beef at a certain Manhattan restaurant, the headline is a near perfect example of the subtle type of elder bias that pervades all media all the time.
What Normal Aging is Like – Part 1 of 2
If you spent any time at all with an assortment of media, you can be forgiven for believing that getting old is a disease.
How to Accept Our Aging Bodies – Part 2 of 2
In a thousand ways every day, our culture reminds us that being old is the most terrible thing that can befall any person. And in twice as many ways every day, it unrelentingly promotes the lie that we can maintain a youthful body unto death.
How to Accept Our Aging Bodies – Part 1 of 2
It is right when hormones are raging and fecundity is in bloom that the young should be so beautiful. But that does not make age ugly or unattractive. Only different.
What Americans Think About Aging – 2013
More than half (51%) of seniors expect their quality of life to stay about the same during the next five to 10 years, while 21% expect it to get much or somewhat better, versus 30 percent of those surveyed in 2012.
Design For Aging: Non-Existent Elder Fashion
One of the ways old people are maligned are with accusations that we lack a sense of style. Don’t blame us. It’s the fashion industry which has not given one second’s thought to how our body shape differs from that of a 17-year-old.
