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People with disabilities are as ageist as everyone else. The real reason is that we act as though people with disabilities don’t grow old and olders never become disabled—and an ageist and ableist culture gives us cover. Because systemic racism stands between so many black and brown people and long life itself. It means thoughtful peeks through the periscope of an open mind at the terrain we will someday inhabit. Obviously, the subject’s age belongs in obituaries and profiles of child prodigies but I believe its reflexive inclusion in other stories is nothing but a bad habit. In fact we are interdependent from birth to death, and, in the words of Dutch gerontologist Jan Baars, “Autonomy requires collaborators. For most of us—including me, so stay tuned to this blog—that means learning more about disability. Nor is it confined to politics. Becoming an Old Person in Training does take imagination, however. Or, if we’re profiling the accomplishments of a musician who has had an illustrious and amazing career, don’t we want to know how old he is? Or, as a Buddhist friend gently corrected, “We are perfectly imperfect.”, All of us lucky enough to grow old—a privilege denied to many—will age into impairment of some kind. Welcome back. It must be done if we are to take upon ourselves the entirety of our human state.”. I may be jumping onto podiums instead of out of airplanes, but I’m not running away from aging. It’s a big ask, but we cannot dismantle ageism without dismantling ableism, and racism, and sexism and all the rest, because  these systems reinforce and depend on each other. What if he’s only 24, but reading the story we might think he’s 60?”. Ashton Applewhite Ending Ageism. It’s the misguided belief that being non-disabled is “normal” and that leading meaningful, desirable lives means staying youthful, able­-bodied and able­-minded. Who works in care homes? A better world in which to grow old is also better place to be non-white, non-male, non-straight, non-rich—and vice versa. Like all discrimination, ageism legitimizes and sustains inequalities between groups, in this case, between the young and the no-longer-young. It robs the caricatures of crone and geezer of their power and frees us to become our full — our ageful — selves. We’re all Old People in Training, whether we know it yet or not, and our numbers will swell as we reject demeaning stereotypes and claim our aging selves. Either way, I’m elated that I finally read it and I’m ready to make noise about this! They spend a lot of energy sustaining the illusion that the old are somehow not us. Because growing old is a privilege denied to many black, brown, and disabled people. It’s the same cultural mindset that is destroying our planet and keeping sexist, racist, and other oppressive systems in place. But this has no bearing on our worth and how we should be treated. Older people and people with disabilities. I stop looking at them like young people, and they stop looking at me like an old guy and we’re all just people.”. In our mindless absorption of those messages and numb collusion in our own disenfranchisement,”(9) we allow ageism to undermine our experiences. It would be convenient to attribute that omission to the fact that most older people are not disabled (true but complicated). It doesn’t take much head-scratching to realize that much of our fear about aging is actually about how our minds and bodies might change as we move through life. She is an author, speaker, and activist, who has been recognized by the New York Times, National Public Radio, the New Yorker, and the American Society on Aging as a leading expert on ageism. It acknowledges the inevitability of oldness while relegating it to the future — albeit at an ever-smaller remove. Most care workers are women of color earning minimum wage or less. Subscribe here. Had Feinstein not run for reelection, she could be going through this difficult transition out of the public eye. She also notes the values most admired in the industrialized world — high personal and economic productivity — do little to help us age. “A social compact for longer lives would opt for integration over age apartheid, in the form of affordable, multi-generational housing, adequate and accessible public transportation, and universal compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. It would be convenient to attribute that omission to the fact that most older people are not disabled (true but complicated). Submit it to this funny Q&A blog written by Ashton Applewhite. Author and activist Ashton Applewhite has been recognized by the New York Times, The New Yorker, National Public Radio, and the American Society on Aging as an expert on ageism. The necessary alternative—imperative, even—is to educate ourselves about cognitive decline, and learn to talk about it openly and accurately. You can support your local bookstore by ordering it from IndieBound or Bookshop. What do we fear most of all? My attitude also sets me apart from an awful lot of other “aging experts” who are invested in the opposite: a deficit model of aging (helping the frail and needy age). Just as different forms of oppression compound and reinforce each other, so do different forms of advocacy and education: when we confront any prejudice, we chip away at the fear and ignorance that underlie them all. Let’s acknowledge the need for helping hands, and reach for them gratefully and without shame”(180). It undoes the “otherness” that powers ageism (and racism and nationalism). This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism by Ashton Applewhite is published by Melville House UK for (£12.99). Age justice requires disability justice—and vice versa. We’re ageist when we feel or behave differently toward a person or a group on the basis of how old we think they are…Ageism isn’t a household word yet, nor a sexy one, but neither was “sexism” until the women’s movement turned it into a howl for equal rights”(8). Both olders and people with disabilities encounter discrimination, and prejudice. It’s lazy, though, and utterly unreliable, and arguably impertinent. Why am I writing about these young victims of police brutality in a newsletter about ageism? But competence is the issue, not age, or gender. And it’s especially offensive that the middle aged man is paired with a sidekick who appears to be an alcoholic. Who Me?, Old School’s free guide to starting a consciousness-raising group around the intersection of ageism and racism. Ashton Applewhite; read by the author. Just as realizing the potential of the disability justice movement means joining forces with age activists, being anti-ageist means being anti-ableist. I am ready to make noise, not only because I’m turning 60 and am on the receiving end of this prejudice more often, but because after reading Applewhite’s book, I can see how entrenched it is in our culture. My final thought experiment: Think of yourself as an Old Person in Training. Ever. Investigative journalist Madlen Davies was my interlocutor, we cover a lot of ground in this 45-minute chat, and as you can tell, I had a very good time. My new talk, “Still Kicking – Confronting Ageism and Ableism in the Pandemic’s Wake,” debuted earlier this week at n4a, the national conference of Area Agencies on Aging—to rave reviews, yay! When an acoustic neuroma destroyed most of the hearing in one ear, I caught myself thinking, “At least it’s sexy brain-tumor-deafness, not sad old-person deafness”—making me both ageist and ableist. In 2012, Ashton Applewhite was invited to speak at a performance festival whose theme that year was so scary that friends of the organizer warned she would lose all her subscribers. A society that doesn’t value its older and disabled members doesn’t value the people who care for us. This statement hit me hard and I am now keenly aware of when I experience this distaste for my aging self. [ii] Residents are now dying at three times the rate they did in July.[iii]. For example, if we write about a ‘senior citizen’ or ‘older person’ who takes her first skydive, does the story have more impact if the subject is 70 or if she’s 99? Ashton Applewhite’s plenary address at the 2013 New York State Adult Abuse Training Institute was compelling and original, and really resonated with our 400 participants. There is nowhere along the age span where you were a better, more valuable person than you are now. Take the next step and join The Radical Age Movement. Activism is intersectional too. Let’s process that one again, “And when people aren’t visible, whether ghettoized or homebound, whether by choice or reluctantly, so are the issues that affect them”(192). ), although I had no idea how central to my thinking it would become. It’s incumbent on each of us to recognize and reject “the incessant barrage of messages from every quarter that consigns the no-longer-young to the margins of society. At the heart of the matter is a deeper one: why do we avoid discussing and dealing compassionately with cognitive decline? My new talk, “Still Kicking – Confronting Ageism and Ableism in the Pandemic’s Wake,” debuted earlier this week at n4a, the national conference of Area Agencies on Aging—to rave reviews, yay! “Older Adults at greater risk of requiring hospitalization or dying if diagnosed with COVID-19,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dec 13, 2020, https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-... [v] Yet Americans with intellectual disabilities, “COVID-19 Infections And Deaths Are Higher Among Those With Intellectual Disabilities,” by Joseph Shapiro, National Public Radio, June 9, 2020, https://www.npr.org/2020/06/09/872401607/covid-19-infections-and-deaths-are-higher-among-those-with-intellectual-disabili, [vi] a job more deadly than logging or deep-sea fishing, “How Many of These 68,000 Deaths Could Have Been Avoided?” New York Times Editorial Board, Sept 5, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/05/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-nursing-homes-deaths.html, [vii] Nursing homes with a significant number of black and Latinx residents. That’s what’s going on when people grumble about lazy Millennials or complain that “kids are like that”(9). Which you will, because I guarantee it’ll make you think differently—and feel better—about the years ahead. Reprinted with the permission of Celadon Books, a division of Macmillan Publishing, LLC. The disability is a characteristic of the person; it does not define them. When I experience this, I turn it around to an appreciation of this stage of the life span, one where there is no shortage of ambition, joy, and beauty, if we chose to see it, as we do in the other phases of life. This thoughtful review, the kind every writer dreams of, was written by Maria Dantino. Dianne Feinstein’s Missteps Raise a Painful Age Question Among Senate Democrats, attitudes towards aging affect how the mind and body function, People with fact- rather than fear-based attitudes towards aging are less likely to develop Alzheime, “MAKE NOISE ABOUT THIS!” – Nasty Woman Writers reviews my manifesto, Why I do what I do and how on earth I got here. Some people are born with this awareness, and so have longer to develop the capacities that will serve them well later in life, capacities such as the ability to keep making new friends, to value internal resources, and to be able to let go, says writer and medical sociologist Anne Karpf. This “scarcity” is the result of policy decisions in a society whose oldest – and youngest- citizens are demeaned and disregarded”(34). People with fact- rather than fear-based attitudes towards aging are less likely to develop Alzheimer’s—even if they have the gene that predisposes them to the disease. Wow, all that ugly negativity. Then ask what difference the number makes”(52). In our mindless absorption of those messages and numb collusion in our own disenfranchisement,”(9) we allow ageism to undermine our experiences. When we question ourselves and others, we’re all forced to stop and think. Ashton Applewhite has tackled the big issue of ageism head-on and compellingly. My attitude also sets me apart from an awful lot of other “aging experts” who are invested in the opposite: a deficit model of aging (helping the frail and needy age). [i] More than 120,000 long-term care workers and residents have died, “This Is Why Nursing Homes Failed So Badly,” by E. Tammy Kim, New York Times, Dec 31, 2020, [ii] Less than 1% of America’s population lives in long-term care facilities, The COVID Tracking Project, Atlantic magazine, Dec 31, 2020, https://covidtracking.com/data/long-term-care, “More Than 100,000 U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Are Linked to Nursing Homes,” New York Times, Dec 4, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-nursing-homes.html, [iii] Residents are now dying at three times the rate they did in July. They’re in the grips of a cruel paradox: They aspire to grow old yet they dread the prospect. This means culture change: mobilizing against the dual stigma of age and disability, starting between our ears. We are perfect. It means thoughtful peeks through the periscope of an open mind at the terrain we will someday inhabit. This thoughtful review, the kind every writer dreams of, was written by Maria Dintino. It robs the caricatures of crone and geezer of their power and frees us to become our full — our ageful — selves. Ashton Applewhite is a #Nasty Woman Writer and Activist! Maybe that’s because the unknown breeds unease or because predicting the future is more difficult than reminiscing or because the task holds less appeal in a youth-centric society. This path is messier and harder and longer. Hill, Amelia. It acknowledges the inevitability of oldness while relegating it to the future — albeit at an ever-smaller remove. When we ignore or overlook what the most marginalized are up against, inequality increases, which harms people and reduces collective well-being. Discover more authors you’ll love listening to on Audible. (Rep. Dan Young is also 87.) “Speak up not only for your own disability, but for invisible disabilities, and disabled people of color as well,” urges activist Alice Wong, the author of Disability Visibility. Different kinds of discrimination – including racism, sexism, ageism, ableism, and homophobia – interact, creating layers of oppression in the lives of individuals and groups. Maybe that’s because the unknown breeds unease or because predicting the future is more difficult than reminiscing or because the task holds less appeal in a youth-centric society. Let’s get one thing straight, aging not a bad thing! Last week the New Yorker magazine published an article describing the senior senator from California “seriously struggling” with cognitive impairment, titled “ Dianne Feinstein’s Missteps Raise a Painful Age Question Among Senate Democrats .” But you sure wouldn’t know it from the way the media and public health advisories turn the vast and varied 60+ population into “the [frail/vulnerable/dependent] elderly.” And it’s not the real reason. Because being, I show up in person when it’s safe because it makes me feel good; you may not want or be able to, which of course is totally fine. Dolores Barclay, a veteran Associated Press reporter, fielded my question. The younger vote went to the Remain camp in Thursday’s fateful referendum, while older voters opted for Leave. Social worker Natalia Granger offers a radical suggestion: Follow the example of gender-nonconforming people. Tamir Rice was 12. Population aging is a permanent, global, demographic trend. It connects us empathically with our future selves. “If someone assumes that we’re “too young”: ageism cuts both ways, and young people experience a lot of it. In terms of it being a necessary part of the “who” of a story, race is no longer an obligatory part of the “who” — unless the story is about race relations. Because achieving equal rights for everyone—everyone!—means ending White Supremacy. Those assumptions are biased and misinformed. Over 80% Americans who’ve died of COVID19 were aged 65 and over. It’s not actually about age: plenty of youngers live with disability and plenty of olders do not. It is not inevitable. But hindsight is 20/20, and denial—cruel, dangerous, and enabled at every turn—is the default. When I experience this, I turn it around to an appreciation of this stage of the life span, one where there is no shortage of ambition, joy, and beauty, if we chose to see it, as we do in the other phases of life. Could we do things then that we can’t do now? Last week the New Yorker magazine published an article describing the senior senator from California “seriously struggling” with cognitive impairment, titled “Dianne Feinstein’s Missteps Raise a Painful Age Question Among Senate Democrats.” The issue it raises isn’t a “painful age question.” It’s a painful competence question: is Senator Feinstein capable of carrying out her duties? It’s not hard to see that ageism doesn’t make any sense either way. At the other end of the spectrum, up to five percent face early-onset Alzheimer’s. Applewhite provides numerous practical ways we can respond to questions and comments we receive and overhear about age, as well as edit the ones we ask others. It makes room for empathy and action. That’s why I’m delighted to announce the release of Ageist? I am ready to make noise, not only because I’m turning 60 and am on the receiving end of this prejudice more often, but because after reading Applewhite’s book, I can see how entrenched it is in our culture. It’s lazy, though, and utterly unreliable, and arguably impertinent. I don’t write them very often, no spam, and it’s easy to unsubscribe. As author Ashton Applewhite might have predicted, however, there are fault lines newly highlighted along generational divides, as well as in so many other sectors of the British population.. The information feels foundational, but it isn’t. And when people aren’t visible, whether ghettoized or homebound, whether by choice or reluctantly, so are the issues that affect them”(192). Disability rates rise steeply after age 75—the fastest-growing age cohort. It means looking at older people and not past them, remembering they were once our age, seeing resilience alongside infirmity, allowing for sensuality, and enlarging our notion of beauty. 30th anniversary of the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act, One out of four American adults has some type of disability, Black Panthers did in 1977 by bringing supplies and cooked meals to the over 100 disabled protesters who occupied the San Francisco H.E.W offices for almost a month, We’re all Old People in Training, whether we know it yet or not, This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism, A short riff on hearing impairment, face masks, and being a good ally. “It is just another essential fact to include about the subjects we cover. “It is just another essential fact to include about the subjects we cover. We can do better and we’d ALL benefit if we did do better! This path is messier and harder and longer. Can we accept and embrace that people at all ages are worthy of recognition and respect? People with fact- rather than fear-based attitudes towards aging are less likely to develop Alzheimer’s—even if they have the gene that predisposes them to the disease. The necessary alternative—imperative, even—is to educate ourselves about cognitive decline, and learn to talk about it openly and accurately. It takes a few weeks, but everybody forgets. That sets me apart from the aspirational supergeezers — people who want to be part of the smattering of octogenarian CEOs, nonagenarian performers and centenarian diploma-earners. Take the journalistic convention of including ages in newspaper stories. She’s been invited to speak on stages around the world including the United Nations and the TED stage. Becoming an Old Person in Training is a political act, because it derails this shame and self-loathing. Who Me?, Old School’s free guide to starting a consciousness-raising group around the intersection of ageism and racism. Envisioning her won’t make it happen, but I sure can’t get there without the aspiration. Being anti-ageist also means being anti-racist, which right now means supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. ... by the New York Times, National Public Radio, and the American Society on Aging as an expert on ageism. Racist? Let’s get one thing straight, aging not a bad thing! who are called all kinds of disparaging names, among them, more often than not, #nasty.” The site aims to “give credit and recognition to the wide range and diversity of #nastywomenwriters, both past and present.” I’m honored and delighted to be one of them. For a number of reasons, none of which are healthy, we’re a society hell-bent on segregation which hinders our quality of life in so many ways. What’s the best answer to “How old are you?” Tell your questioner the truth — and then ask why it matters. Then ask what difference the number makes”(52). Applewhite, armed with research and in the company of scholars, bust other myths too, such as: “Society will be swamped by all these old people!” and “An older population will bog everyone else down in caring for the sick and the frail,” and “Olders are a drag on the economy,” and “One generation benefits at the expense of another,” and “Social security bankrupted! I love the culture hack, but I want to modify it because identifying as 37 (still “young”) is a form of denial. While I normally love SNL, I have to call this one out. Nations of the disability is a # Nasty Woman writer and activist my final experiment. Airplanes, but it does what ’ s not something you can support your local bookstore by ordering from... Thinking it would be convenient to attribute that omission to the Remain camp in ’... 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