This Chair Rocks
Subtitle: A Manifesto Against Ageism
Publisher: Celadon Books
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781250297259
Description: In our youth obsessed culture, we're bombarded by media images and messages about the despairs and declines of our later years. Applewhite traces her own journey from apprehensive boomer to pro-aging radical, and in the process debunks myths about late life. Explaining the roots of ageism in history and how it divides and debases, Applewhite examines how ageist stereotypes cripple the way our brains and bodies function. She believes it's time to create a world of age equality by making discrimination on the basis of age as unacceptable as any other kind of bias. -- adapted from jacket.