Glowing Older

Episode 4:3 Ashton Applewhite Takes Aim at Negative Perceptions of Aging

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Ashton Applewhite is on a crusade to end the discrimination that sidelines and silences older people. Find out why her TED talk, Let’s End Ageism, has over 1.6 million views.

About Ashton

An internationally recognized expert on ageism, Ashton Applewhiteis the author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism. A co-founder of the Old School Anti-Ageism Clearinghouse, she speaks widely at venues that have included the TED mainstage and the United Nations, and is a leading spokesperson for the emerging movement to raise awareness of ageism and to dismantle it.

Key Takeaways

  • We are barraged by negative messages about aging throughout our lifetime. Ageism benefits a sexist, ageist, capitalist society. When we are afraid, we buy things we don’t need.
  • Becoming “an old person in training” is to acknowledge that someday you’re going to get old instead of getting on the “hamster wheel of denial.”
  • The pandemic has brought to light the way different prejudices compound and reinforce each other. To be anti-ageist is to be anti-racist is to be anti-ableist.
  • OldSchool.info is an anti-ageism clearinghouse—a central repository of tools and resources for the emerging movement against ageism.

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