Category: Myth Busters

Breathe deeply now…. After receiving dozens and dozens of comments on Facebook and from my newsletter subscribers, this week I am going […]

In the early 2000’s, two researchers at Princeton University queried college students about their opinions of and their ideas about older adults.  […]

I came across this poem recently and it stopped me cold. I looked at the date and nodded my head, yet realized […]

A survey of 2,000 young people sixteen to thirty-four were asked, “What age is ‘old’ to you?” I almost fell out of […]

Older drivers are crazy drivers. That’s what younger people, and some older people 😉 seem to believe.

I have never seen an expiration date stamped on the forehead of an artist, or a musician, or an interior designer. Creativity, like wisdom, is often a gift that becomes more complex and more nuanced as we get older.

Since humans first put stick to cave wall, in almost every type of image–moving or in print–where older adults are portrayed, the […]

When we look at the research around this belief, we find that in truth, older adults are happier, less depressed, and feel […]

Did you know all seniors suffer from dementia? Many younger people truly believe all seniors suffer from dementia. Dementia being the umbrella […]