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Monday, June 21, 2021

Joan Price and Dr. Jane Fleishman Discuss LGBTQ Eldership

…yet they also have the added difficulty of ageism. And ageism hits hard! JP: What about the challenges of moving into a senior community or residential facility as an LGBTQ…

Monday, January 3, 2022

Beat the ‘Bots When Job Hunting

…may be making you look old. And this one about job hunting tips to beat ATS and ageism Here is some additional guidance. Leave off college graduation dates. This is…

Monday, December 23, 2019

A Holiday Greeting from Tom Kamber

…second year of programs. And we struck powerful blows against ageism, launching a public service announcement on cable TV showcasing seniors lifting weights and doing digital art, and getting coverage…

Thursday, February 1, 2018

Let’s Get Intergenerational

…Young, The Old, and What We Can Achieve Together, a terrific new report from Generations United & the Eisner Foundation, age segregation: Gives rise to ageism. Makes social solidarity more…

Sunday, October 25, 2015

Princess Leila, Older Woman — and more from the week online

…some of it: Read more at HollywoodReporter.com A new name for the over-50s? A new national membership organization, Enrich Life Over 50, wants to reverse ageism and kickstart an entrepreneurship…

Thursday, November 9, 2017

Catching Up with Our Bodies Ourselves: Q&A with Joan Ditzion

…interest in aging and ageism. Joan: I have been in geriatric social work since my 40s and I was very close to my mother. I was involved in her care…

Thursday, July 7, 2022

Watch: Age Is an Asset

Had enough of the ageism in popular culture? Check out this inspiring Tedx talk by speaker and author Annarose Ingarra-Milch. Here she shares the positive attributes of aging. Her “Four…

Monday, August 14, 2023

Money: Create Extra Retirement Income

…somebody, or ageism, they find it hard, or ageism, they find it hard,” says Hannon. “So, it really takes a little bit of foresight,” she says. “If you can, plan…

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Coming Soon at the Senior Planet Exploration Center

…to present yourself safely and appropriately online navigate trusted online sources for job and opportunity listings how to earn an income without losing benefits how to protect yourself against ageism

Saturday, December 10, 2022

Meet the Trainer: Pat Whitty

…problem.” Why did you first start thinking more about aging and ageism? It’s important to give people the opportunity to talk, be listed to, and be appreciated for who they…

Thursday, January 14, 2016

Helen Mirren’s Zinger Exposes Ageist Compliments

…unintended ageism — more elegant even than Mirren’s gown. And it made us think: What are some pointed but polite corrections for other phrases that people use when they think…

Friday, November 21, 2014

Three Older Women Experiment With Drugs

…have helped in the push against ageism. Just one day after “Grannies Smoking Weed for the First Time” was posted to YouTube, it had been viewed more than 7 million…

Friday, December 9, 2016

I’m Not Aging “Well” — I’m Getting Old, Goddammit

…and can’t get around without a walker. She is very sociable but refuses to go out because she’s ashamed to be seen with her walker. The ageism that makes her…

Friday, August 21, 2020

Open Thread Follow Up: Really?

…Or feeble? Or tech-phobic? What was your encounter with ageism, intentional or not? Tell us your story in the comments!     Virge Randall is Senior Planet’s Managing Editor. She…

Friday, March 3, 2017

Is It Time for #OscarsSoYoung?

…just reflect the culture’s ageism, it also reinforces the attitudes that showed themselves in those tweets about Beatty and Dunaway, as well as in countless news reports that referred to…