The Art 2 Aging

Flip the Script is a social media campaign that has kicked off and runs through the month of May.

It’s the brainchild of a group of volunteers led by Janine Vanderburg, CEO of Encore Roadmap and founder of Changing the Narrative.

Janine returns to The Art 2 Aging this week where she talks about three key scripts that need to be flipped in favour of older adults and why it’s even more urgent today, given the devastating cutbacks to the funding of social programs by DOGE.

When we tell ourselves we will not give in to the vagaries of aging, are we doing ourselves any favors?

Our guest this week on POV is Wayne Lehrer, author of The Art of Conscious Aging.

Wayne holds that in order for us to really live consciously, we need to fully recognize where we are at any given moment.

If we’re 75, we need to accept that our bodies may feel 75 and build from that point forward. As Wayne might put it, “be like a tree and bend with the wind.”

See if Wayne’s words get you thinking, this week on POV.

Audio Time: 6:38

Clinical hypnosis is recognized as a valuable tool in psychotherapy. People have quit smoking or rid themselves of anxieties after hypnosis sessions under the guidance of a trained clinical hypnotherapist.

Our guest on The Art 2 Aging this week has vast experience in clinical hypnosis and has helped thousands of patients over his 30 years in practice.

Flavio Iammarino has unique views on how the human mind works and those views might shock and surprise you.

The American Society on Aging is hosting its annual conference this week in Orlando, Florida.

An enormous spotlight will shine on ageism – the stereotypes, discrimination, and outright prejudice that surrounds what is nothing more than a number.

Nowhere is this ugliness more prevalent than in the workplace and the source of the ugliness rests largely with employers.

This week on POV, Janine Vanderburg, founder of the Encore Network and Changing the Narrative, makes a compelling argument that employers lose so much because of their pre-conceived notions about older workers.

Our guest this week on The Art 2 Aging is journalist, Peter Bowes, who is the Los Angeles-based correspondent for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Peter is also the host and creator of a podcast series called Live Long and Master Aging. For the past eight years, he has interviewed top scientists who are working in the field of aging. What he has learned about breakthroughs in healthy aging is both exciting and, oddly, nothing new. While there are some fascinating breakthroughs on the horizon around healthy aging, there are some basics about staying healthy that haven’t changed at all.

One of our subscribers, Fred Woolman, is featured this week on POV. Fred lives in Rochester, Minnesota. He’s 82 years old and a full-time fitness instructor. He’s also a passionate American who is deeply angered and disturbed by the words and actions of his President. This is Fred’s Point Of View.

There is plenty of discussion these days around AI and its new sibling, AGI – short for artificial general intelligence. Some are concerned about the so far unchecked power of AI while others are touting AI’s abilities to do far more than humans can do, do it far better and far faster. Here’s an example. AI could soon replace your family doctor and maybe your specialists as well. And this will have enormous impacts on all of us, especially older adults.

We touched on this in a recent Art 2 Aging newsletter and this week, our guest, UX designer Ezra Schwartz, goes into greater detail, outlining what the future could hold.

Veteran marketing executive, Dave McCaughan, returns this week on POV with his thoughts on why we want to continue working beyond 65 and even beyond 70. He explains the reasons for it and offers up evidence contained in several global surveys to back up his views.

A 6 minute listen.

All around the world today, there are more and more signs of people taking matters into their own hands and no longer waiting for governments to step in – matters like community health, outreach for the homeless, local help for those older adults who are – not aging at home but living at home, as our guest puts it.

Debbie Howard was a fulltime caregiver for her mother and that inspired her to create Aging Matters International and write two books on aging. One is for those who are caregivers and the other one is for employers to understand what 30% of their employees go through as caregivers at home. She is also pivotal in establishing support groups in her community that offer assistance for older adults in their own homes - something that could easily be the model for the near and medium term future for caregiving.

This week on POV: How To Create An Anti-Bucket List.

Wait, what??

Janine Vanderburg, founder of Changing the Narrative and the Encore Roadmap, suggests that, in addition to what we would love to do in life, we should also create a list of what we don’t want to do again.

If we have a finite lifespan, why not fill it with what we want and leave out what we don’t!

This is a 5-minute listen.