It is now that time of year for the wonderful spring holidays of Easter, Passover and Ramadan. Usually during these intergenerational holidays, we celebrate festivities with entire families, often remembering the rituals that have been shared for hundreds, perhaps...
Would you talk to my middle school students about ageism? That’s the inquiry I received from the Denver Green School sixth-grade teacher Becca Allen in late January. Middle school students were interested in ageism. And since what I do is present and teach about...
I recently saw Won’t You Be my Neighbor, the biopic movie about Fred Rogers. Like many who viewed it, I found the film very moving, particularly in the way it conveys the importance of simple goodness in our lives. One of the most poignant parts of the film was when...
Over the last few months, I’ve pored over many articles and books on ageism to find the latest research about aging and ageism. The result? A paper with facts and figures that defy many of the traditional negative stereotypes about all of us as we grow...
By Janine Vanderburg, Initiative Director and Laurie Brock, Research Director If you are like many of us who have been working to end ageism, at some point someone has asked you: What is ageism, and why should we care? So here is a definition and a few statistics to...
