Let’s Get Creative

Ashton Applewhite and Jane Fonda and were featured this week in a lively anti-ageism segment on CBS Sunday Morning. It’s fast-paced, fun—and packs some surprises.

Their focus is on that famous Yale research, which showed people with more positive views on aging lived 7.5 years longer, on average, than people who equated age with decline.

But society, as Fonda points out, does “literally everything it can to make sure we don’t have a good attitude” about aging. The antidote? Community. The recommendation? I don’t want to spoil the surprise, but here’s a hint …

It’s time to get creative.

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