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Ageism and Elections: Louise Aronson and Ken Covinsky
Emergency podcast! We've been asked by many people, mostly junior/mid career faculty, to quickly record a podcast on ageism and the elections. People are feeling conflicted. On the one hand, they have concerns about cognitive fitness of candidates for office. On the other hand, they worry about ageism. There's something happening here, and what it is ain't exactly clear. We need clear eyed thinking about this issue.
In today's podcast, Louise Aronson, author of Elderhood, validates that this conflict between being concerned about both fitness for the job and alarmed about ageism is exactly…
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