Ken Covinsky

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GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast · Reframing Aging: A Podcast with Patricia D'Antonio · 4 Mar 2021 podcast

And I think it's really, I'm glad, you know, HESA and AGS are really sort of thinking about how the public approach is aging.

But can I share with you one thing that maybe makes me just a little bit uncomfortable?

is when reading this, I was thinking that it's really important to know how the public approaches aging.

But I had a little bit of a feeling, are we reacting too much to, in fact, attitudes that are explicitly ageist?

So for example, it's true that age is just a number.

And it's very important that people of all ages be able to contribute.

But it's also important that people of all abilities be able to contribute.

So I fear a little bit that we hide away from some of the truths that are uncomfortable for people.

So that, for example, it's very important the public understand that there's a lot of vibrant older people.

There's people in their 80s and 90s who are playing, as we were saying, are playing tennis.

But it's also true that almost the vast majority of people at some stage of their life are going to have a period of really significant physical or cognitive disability.

That the vast majority of people are not going to escape this.

is the fact that the public is uncomfortable with that very basic truth.

So that dissuade us from really talking about that.

And because I guess there's another part of me that feels like

I want to talk about the 80-year-old playing tennis, but I don't feel that 80-year-old needs my help per se.

And I don't feel that they need the, they're the people most in need of the advocacy of the GSA.

That it's the 80-year-olds who's suffering from cognitive decline and the 80-year-old in a nursing home whose care models are just so awful.

And the respect of society is just so missing that those are the people who actually need our advocacy.

Well, yeah, that's, I think that's, I like the way you're phrasing this, but, you know, but I'm also thinking like of the imagery that's often used, like, and this is true at the higher level, like at all the major aging organizations.

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