In this 2014 video, Radical Age Lab's Sheila Roher addresses an audience at the inaugural InnovateMED: CUMC and the City conference. She describes the still-relevant realities of medical ageism and the need to be aware of it and disrupt it.

 The founder of the Radical Age Lab describes how ageism is embedded in medical practice & how to disrupt it

A conversation on how the medicalization of ageing has affected and will continue to affect our later years. Teaching of aging issues at medical schools is widely underrepresented despite the fact that olders are the majority of the population. Old-age should not be treated as a disease.

Professor & geriatrician Louise Aronson, author of Elderhood, talks about the negative effects of the medicalization of aging 

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About this resource:	In this 2014 video, Radical Age Lab's Sheila Roher addresses an audience at the inaugural InnovateMED: CUMC and the City conference. She describes the still-relevant realities of medical ageism and the need to be aware of it and disrupt it.
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Resource: Challenging Medical Ageism: A Path To Better Health

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