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Seniors find voice through advocacy
By Danielle Gauthier
When Kathelyn Black turned 80 this year, one of her friends sent her this tongue-in-cheek message: “People are so amazed you made it this far, they don’t expect too much of you!”
But Black says she’s never been one to sit back and watch her life go by, and she’s not about to start now.
There’s a battle brewing between the generations
By Nicolas Van Praet
One of the most repeated hippie lines to make the rounds in the 1960s was “Never trust anyone over 30.” Now, it’s meaningless.
Today’s conflict between young and old is a complex and nuanced affair that elicits as many different responses as the number of people you ask.
Focus on Older People
By Jane Gates
It’s the International Year of Older Persons, and we are being encouraged to try to break down intergenerational barriers between young and old people.
Oops — that’s older people.
But what does it mean to be an older person these days? It certainly doesn’t have the same meaning it did at the beginning of the century — for that matter, even in the middle. And it most certainly will not have the same meaning in another 50 years.