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| Title: | So, how old is too old: A forced reflection on the meaning of old age |
| Authors: | Sellers, Debra M. |
| Publication Date: | 2009 |
| Type: | Article (author version) |
| Journal: | Journal of aging, humanities, and the arts |
| Volume: | 3 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Starting Page: | 140 |
| Ending Page: | 143 |
| Permissions: | This is an electronic version of an article published in Journal of Aging, Humanities, and the Arts, 1932-5622, Volume 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 140 – 143. Journal of Aging, Humanities, and the Arts is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com with the open URL of your article
which would be the following address; http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1932-5614 &volume=3&issue=2&spage=140 |
| Keywords: | Ageism
Attitudes
Old age |
| Abstract: | This first person narrative details an illuminating and personal insight that transpired for the author, a gerontologist. Her attitudes about growing older, the meaning of old age, and implicit ageist
views are challenged during a chance encounter. This insight occurred in the most unlikely place—a racetrack—and during a
time when she was certainly “off duty” as a gerontologist and thus, perhaps, most unprepared for the consequences of the interaction. The author is forced to reflect upon her own life and old age future, and is able to find serenity and peace in that vision. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2097/1698 |
| Appears in Collections: | Family Studies and Human Services
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