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Images of Aging: Ageism, Anti-Aging and Anti-Ageism Stephen Katz, Department of Sociology and Centre for Aging and Society, Trent University Aging: Are We Doing It Right? Centre for Studies in Aging & Health at Providence Care, Kingston,

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Images of Aging:

Ageism, Anti-Aging and Anti-Ageism

Stephen Katz, Department of Sociology and Centre for Aging and Society, Trent University

Aging: Are We Doing It Right?

Centre for Studies in Aging & Health at Providence Care, Kingston, Ontario March 4, 2016

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Median Age In Canada in 2011 the median age was 39.9 years

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Baby Boomers

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Baby Boomers: Five Reasons They Are Our Worst Generation

Ten thousand are retiring every day. Good riddance. BY GENE MARKS | DECEMBER 13, 2013 AT 10:59 AM

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Successful Aging Lifestyles ‘Far more than is usually assumed, successful aging is in our own hands …. Successful aging is dependent on individual choices and behaviours’ (Rowe & Kahn, 1998) ‘the identification of people with unhealthy lifestyle habits, and finding ways to improve lifestyle habits of specific target groups is the challenge of future prevention programmes in young and elderly subjects’ (A Survey of in Europe on Nutrition and the Elderly, 2003).

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WELCOME TO SUN CITY, ARIZONA

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‘Positive and negative styles of ageing into old age are not

bjectively distinctive physical conditions waiting to be

discovered, but are socially constructed moral categories reflecting the prevailing social preference for individualised consumerism, voluntarism, and decentralisation.’ (Mike Hepworth).

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