Aging is a natural human experience. It begins the moment we are born. Some part of your body will deteriorate and you will lose people you know. It doesn’t happen all at once.
Ageism is discrimination or stereotyping based on how old we think a person is. Success is often defined as the ability to look and move like a younger version of yourself. It’s filled with fear. It divides us.
Listen as Ashton Applewhite joins Dr. Pamela Peeke to discuss aging and how to change your views in an ageist culture.
Ashton Applewhite is the author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism. An internationally recognized expert on ageism, she speaks widely at venues that have included the TED mainstage and the United Nations, has written for Harper's, Playboy, and the New York Times, and is the voice of Yo, Is This Ageist? Ashton is a leading spokesperson for the emerging movement to mobilize against discrimination on the basis of age.