Ageism, Senior Centers 8-12-25

We discussed the benefits of senior centers in promoting healthy aging, highlighting their role in social engagement, assistance, outings, active aging, learning opportunities, nutritious dining, community support, and volunteer activities. Elizabeth Magallon Fleury emphasized the need for rebranding senior centers as community centers to avoid the word “senior” and encourage intergenerational interaction. We also touched on ageism, with a video from AARP showing young people's misconceptions about aging and articles from Wall Street Journal, and Axios highlighting the challenges of aging, job loss for older workers, and the impact of an aging population on society. Dr. Zalan Alam provided his perspective from the UK for these two USA based articles.Linda introduced in discussion of using the word “senior” that Amazon offers “you may also like” titles to do with "chair yoga for seniors" and such when you look at their listing for Carol Chiang OTRL’s new book: Age in Place or Find a New Space.Presented by Elizabeth Magallon Fleury, CAPS, Life's Encore PlanningUS News 7-10-25 How Do Senior Centers Promote Healthy Aging? by Elaine Howley. Edited by Christine Comizio, MPHhttps://health.usnews.com/senior-care/articles/senior-centers-benefits-for-healthy-agingDr. Zalan Alam mentioned “the 2016 report that we had over here called No One Should Have No One - Working to End Loneliness Amongst Older People by Age UK.” Debbie Howard found this updated March 2024 Age UK studyPresented by Debbie Howard, Aging Matters Internationalhttps://www.linkedin.com/posts/bob-kramer-15238b15_ive-been-saying-for-some-time-that-we-desperately-activity-7354501326715715585-eYvM/ Debbie presented the following three articles that Bob Kramer referenced in his post:AARP Asks Young People “What age do you consider to be old?”https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7354501326715715585Wall Street Journal Shows the Difficulty of Navigating Job Loss for Older Workershttps://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/retirement/early-retirement-layoff-america-77c94667Axios Focuses on the Challenges an Aging Society Createshttps://www.axios.com/2025/06/26/america-older-younger-populationDebbie Howard's summary of this show.Articles are listed in the order they were presented and discussed.Discussion hosted by: Linda Sherman, Ray Gordon and Debbie HowardBoomerTechTalk.com episode page with additional resources mentioned during our discussion.8-12-25 LinkedIn Show PostNickie’s Tune written and performed by Richard Sherman