Power in Aging: Embracing Aging to Build an Age-Positive Maine

Power in Aging: Embracing Aging to Build an Age-Positive Maine Online

When you look at yourself as an older person, what do see? It turns out what we think, feel, and believe about getting older matters! If we live with positive beliefs about our own aging, research has found that we're likely to live 7.5 years longer than those who believe aging as about disease and decline. Age-positive beliefs also lead to better brain health, and less chronic disease and anxiety. Better still, research shows that all across the world, including in the US, people are their happiest in their later years.

So, why are so many of us worried about aging and being old? The answer is ageism, and it’s so ingrained in us that many Americans don’t even believe it’s real!

Maine Council on Aging (MCOA) has launched a new anti-ageism movement in Maine called the Power in Aging Project. The goal of the project is to build a more age-positive culture in Maine through conversation and action.The Embracing Aging presentation will talk about ageism and its impacts and explore the effects of age-positivity.

  • We can embrace positive beliefs about growing older.
  • We can learn more about our own age-bias and avoid acting on it.
  • We can listen for negative age-stereotypes and shift those beliefs to positive.

Don Harden is a founding Board Member of the Maine Council on Aging and coordinates the Power in Aging Project, MCOA’s new anti-ageism campaign. He has been affiliated with Catholic Charities Maine for over 43 years most recently as Director of Aging Services. He was co-convenor of the Maine Aging Initiative’s Workgroup on Workforce and the Economy, served on the Legislative Commission to Study Long-term Care Workforce Issues, and represents the voice of older workers on the State Workforce Board. He serves as care partner with his mother who lives independently and celebrated her 100th birthday this past May.

Date:
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
Time:
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Time Zone:
Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Online:
This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
Audience:
  Adult     Older Adults (60+)  
Categories:
  Health & Wellness     Special Event  
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