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“THIS CHAIR ROCKS”
Fighting Ageism, Cheering Up and Pushing Back
Monday, March 18 | 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College
2180 Third Ave (at 116th Street)
New York, NY 10035
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Presented by the Geriatric Mental Health Alliance of NY
and Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging, Hunter College
Special Lecturer: Ashton Applewhite
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About the the Lecture:
This 40-minute talk proposes an alternative to worrying about getting old: wake up to the ageist messages that frame two thirds of our lives as decline, cheer up, and push back. It catalyzes a conversation that people are hungry for, whether they work with older people or simply hope to become one.
Ashton Applewhite is the voice of Yo Is This Ageist and has been writing about aging and ageism since 2007 at This Chair Rocks. During this time, she’s become a Knight Fellow, a New York Times Fellow, and a Columbia Journalism School Age Boom Fellow. She is the author of Cutting Loose: How Women Who End Their Marriages Do So Well, media liaison to the board of the Council on Contemporary Families, and a staff writer at the American Museum of Natural History.
