Betsy Hay talks to me with her special needs dog by her side. She says she is the person her dog needs to be with. That illustrates who Betsy is on a fundamental level – someone who feels compelled to be there when life is hard and considers herself better for the...
Since our inception in 2018, Changing the Narrative’s tagline, reflecting our end game, has been: Ending Ageism Together. Why are we optimistic right now that there is progress in the global campaign to end ageism? October 1 marked the United Nations International Day...
We know that workplace age discrimination is a huge barrier to those of us who are older and who want and need to work. That’s why Changing the Narrative is working with a coalition of partners who want to strengthen Colorado’s age discrimination laws. To return to...
Do you know how ageism—prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination against people based on their age—shows up in your health, and in our health care systems? Sometimes we do it to ourselves—thinking that we’re not feeling well because we’re “getting old”, instead of...
Entitled millennial? Digitally incompetent older people? Why do we allow these stereotypes to persist. Ageism is prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination against people based on their age. It can be directed against younger people (e.g., discounting someone’s...
