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Addressing Ageism in the Fitness Industry

How ageist stereotypes, marketing, and offerings affect the youth-dominated landscape of fitness professionals

When Ageism & Sexism Combine

In conversation with Emilie Aries, Ashton Applewhite breaks down ageism & sexism in the workplace & encourages feminism to be more age-inclusive

Maiden, Mother & Crone

Exploring attitudes towards women & aging within genre fiction

You Are Not Considered a Whole Person After a Certain Age

Nutritionist Debra Benfield talks with journalist Virginia Sole-Smith about how ageism & anti-fat bias intersect

Busting myths about gender and the economy BUSTED

Myth: Women should step aside as they age; men should step up

Leading experts bust myths around gender & the economy, tackling gendered ageism

How can adland get over the age-old problem of ageism?

New research from the International Longevity Center & the MullenLowe Group offers ways to tackle age bias in the advertising industry

What does ageism in tech look like

An interview with Ariana Tobin, one of the ProPublica reporters who exposed rampant age discrimination at IBM & other tech giants

Simon(e) van Saarloos & Lani Hanna dissect how constructions of “age” & “youth” support & reproduce white supremacist patriarchy

Does the Asexual Community have an Ageism Issue?

An exploration of the influence & visibility of older people in the asexual community & the effects the assumption that all olders are asexual

Louise Aronson on Elderhood, Ageism & COVID

A geriatrician critiques the way an anti-aging culture reduces age to illness & explains how to redeem health policy & medical practice

Ending Ageism

Writer Carl Honoré tells the BBC why we all miss out when olders are stereotyped as “over the hill”

A sermon about ageism & Christianity by a pastor at the West United Methodist Church

On Racism & Ageism

This episode discusses the need to include olders & people of color in drug studies + beyond

Intersectionality Matters

Kimberlé Crenshaw, the scholar who invented the term "intersectionality" talks with activist Ashton Applewhite

A podcast & community aimed at employees & companies in tech who want to “break ageism ” & show the value of an age-diverse tech workforce

MMOA; get better results with older adults.

Two Ways We Can Combat Ageism

Tons of tips to help rehab & fitness students, teachers + clinicians base interventions on ability, not age-based assumptions

Redirecting Ageism

Interview with Becca Levy about her book, BREAKING THE AGE CODE

All things ageist & ageism, professional, sophisticated, informative

Ageism in Cancer Care

A geriatric oncologist discusses how ageism can affect treatments & outcomes of older people with cancer, & how to detect + combat it

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Clear explanations of what ageism against kids looks like, from parents who support self-directed learning

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Longing for the Ageless Self

A conversation with Professor Valerie Lipscomb about age as a performance, age studies & how we can combat ageism in our day-to-day lives as well as on the stage

educating professionals one conversation at a time The Palliators

Age is Not Just a Number

Short introduction for healthcare workers to ageism in medical practice

Derek Jae & Craig the Writer talk with members of the Black LGBTQ community about how they feel about growing older

Ageism, Misopedy, Adult Supremacy, Child Liberation, Childism, Adultism, Child Rights, Etc. SRSLY WRONG podcast episode 265

Comparing & contrasting the big words floating around the ideas of age discrimination, anti-youth sentiment, anti-elder sentiment + unpacking the way they might be useful or complimentary

Let’s Talk About Ageism

Host Sudhanshu Kaushik discusses the age bias young Indians face

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Why are we ageist?

A three-episode podcast series from the BBC about bias against older workers & the economic and human reasons to overcome it

Ageism and Covid-19 with Dr Peta Cook

A conversation with an Australian age scholar about discriminatory language & everyday ageism

The CEO of Generation quantifies what mid-career workers are up against & suggests possible interventions

The American Eldercide

Age scholar Margaret Gullette explains why so many nursing home residents died during the 2020-21 pandemic, why many deaths were preventable & how ageism factored into the tragic toll

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Playful and Compassionate Movement At Any Age

Movement coach David Wilson describes his compassionate, playful approach to physical activity & its effects on overall well-being

EP142: The Intersectionality of Ageism & Sexism

THOUGHTFUL COUNSELOR

An expert in person-centered care discusses the effect of these biases on medical practice

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Gerontologist Tracey Gendron talks about how we use the language of ageism & how it harms us

Wrinkle radio, don't panic it's just aging

"Don’t panic! it’s just aging." Conversations with age scholar Sally Chivers about the forces that feed age-related shame, fear, & inequity

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Historians describe how Maggie Kuhn founded the Gray Panthers, the first anti-ageist group in the US, leveraging her age & charisma to challenge prevailing views of olders as sexless, powerless & mindless