Transcript This Chair Rocks: How Ageism Warps our View of Long Life

THIS CHAIR ROCKS
Ashton Applewhite
Jim Lizzio
Gemze DeLappe
Eddie May Holmes
Zola Hellmyer
Irving Fields
ONLY 4% OVER 65 LIVE IN NURSING
HOMES
MOST OF US WON’T LIVE IN NURSING
HOMES.
Eva Zeisel
7 OUT OF 8 BRAINS WILL HANG IN JUST
FINE.
ONLY 4% OVER 65 LIVE IN NURSING
HOMES
MOST OF US WON’T LIVE IN NURSING
HOMES.
90% OF THE REST THINK JUST FINE
MOST OF US WILL THINK JUST FINE.
Childhood
Old Age
Middle Age
MOST OF US WILL BE HAPPIER.
I’M NOT RAY:
STAGE 2
THE MORE YOU
KNOW ABOUT OLD
AGE
THE BETTER IT
The bull looks different.
The bull looks different.
DISCRIMINATION & STEREOTYPING
ON THE BASIS OF AGE
I’m still worried about the shoes.
Bill & Ruth
I’M NOT RAY:
STAGE 3
I’m not Ray. And I’m not Ruth.
Fear of dying is human.
Fear of aging is cultural.
Even if memory fails, much
remains.
Mobility is relative.
People never stop having sex.
We can choose where we find beauty.
Occupy age.
ONLY 3% OF DEATHS OVER 65 ARE VERY
EXPENSIVE.
“LIVE TOO LONG” = COSTS TO MUCH.
The bull looks
different.
The older we are,
the less afraid of
dying.
I’VE BECOME AN
OLD PERSON IN
TRAINING.
Becoming an old
person in training
takesimagination.
planning.
Two thirds of life is decline.
It’s old vs. young.
We can’t afford longevity.
THIS CHAIR ROCKS
Ashton Applewhite