Whatever your age - early 20s or late nineties, pushing the big 5-0 or past 100 - buy or borrow a copy of Ai-Jen Poo's, The Age of Dignity. Clear & to the point, it focuses on opportunities to turn around our culture's current dunderheaded attitudes, practices & policies affecting aging.
Get it. Get it now. Read it. Discuss it with friends.
Its timing freaks me out, in the best sort of way. Ai-Jen has the experience & gifts to say what's been pinging around my heart for the past few years - that this moment in time presents remarkable opportunities to shake things up in ways that will benefit everyone - the aging (i.e. all of us), the physically dependent, the elderly, their families & loved ones, caregivers, our economy.
What are you doing, still reading this post? Run out to your local book store or order it online, but GET IT! Get it NOW! And share with us what you think about it.
(originally posted on older2elder)
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