Ken Covinsky
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1,532 appearances
20 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2016
last heard Sep 2025
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And I'm not allowed to use elders anymore.
So my plea to you, as I always thought elders was a term that
really engendered, like it's a term I used just a few minutes ago on the church elders, a term that really reflected profound respect for older people.
But now I have to, in my papers and bags, journals of the American Geriatric Society for our listeners who aren't familiar,
Now in my papers in like the leading geriatrics journal, I have to say older adults because that did better in focus groups and surveys of older people.
So I guess my question for you is like,
Am I wrong to ask to get elders back or am I just being silly and Pollyanna and not understanding the way the need to use terms in a way they're perceived by the public?
And that like if I can use it, should I be saying back to myself, if I can use a term that there's more comfort with that gets the same point across, should I use it?
some.
Yeah, well, you remind me, and I think you've had this on one of your prior podcasts, our colleague Louise Aronson,
And basically in her writings have said the one thing that's unique about ageism as a prejudice is that it's prejudice against our future selves that we all expect to reach there so that it raises this fascinating question.
Is that like so when your reporter says, I don't use elderly because my readers don't like it.
is that the right response?
Like my readers don't like to think of themselves as growing older.
And should he sort of say like, okay, well, I won't talk about that.
Or should you say, well, guess what?
You know, you're going to be getting older and you know what, and, and, you know, maybe you don't want to talk about it, but your mother's getting older and your, your, your, your grandkids, your grandparents are getting older.
And we do a terrible job for them as they develop those needs.
And maybe we should talk about it a little bit more.
No, I mean, I'm really glad you're bringing this up.
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