What is the first image that you conjure up when you think of someone who is elderly?
The power of words and images
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We Need to Talk” (April) – Ageism
For our April 21 “We Need to Talk session”, the Executive Director of the National Institute on Ageing (NIA), Michael Nicin, has agreed to be our special guest. The NIA is a Ryerson University think tank focused on the realities of Canada’s ageing population.
From One Global Movement to Another
I began to ponder the similarities between the Feminist and Women’s Liberation movement of the 1960s and the increasing spread of today’s anti-ageism movement across the globe.
Never Too Late to be What You Might Have Been
We don’t all need to be heroes. But as human beings on this planet, we all need purpose. And, increasingly, older people are choosing a different kind of retirement, one that focuses on fulfilling some purpose.