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IGA020: The Funny-Bone Academy – How Humor Teaches Us About Aging


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Summary:
What do we learn from our humor of others? Can humor be used to promote age-related impressions, opinions and stereotypes among us? Lee explores such questions through a series of humorous stories, jokes and one-liners. He finds the bulk of the age-related humor focuses on our failing memories or our aging bodies. But there is a new brand of humor emerging that could have a much more positive effect on how we feel about aging. Enjoy the laughs. But let's start considering the direction our age-related humor is taking us.


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Questions Explored In This Episode:

Does our age-related humor affect our feelings about aging?
What does the age-related humor suggest to us about what aging is?
How our humor can be an avenue of empowerment rather than denigration?

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The Aging AcademyBy Lee Mowatt

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