Listener (Teresa)
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Hidden Brain
The Best Years of Your Life
In the year preceding my 65th birthday, I was deluged by mailing advertisements informing me that I need to buy Medicare.
Hidden Brain
The Best Years of Your Life
And the images accompanying these advertisements showed my peers or myself in a group of people who are white haired and retired and generally inactive.
Hidden Brain
The Best Years of Your Life
And we would soon need devices like walkers and wheelchairs and canes.
Hidden Brain
The Best Years of Your Life
So these images saturate the media.
Hidden Brain
The Best Years of Your Life
And if we believe such images, it seems that those of us who are 65 or older have nothing left to give and are fragile and require a lot of care.
Hidden Brain
The Best Years of Your Life
I strongly believe that such images are detrimental to my well-being and longevity.