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Ashton Applewhite: Let's End Ageism

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1 April 2017

"Let's End Ageism" by Ashton Applewhite was delivered at TED in Vancouver in 2016 to a standing ovation. It's not the passage of time that makes it so hard to get older. It's ageism, a prejudice that pits us against our future selves -- and each other. Ashton Applewhite urges us to dismantle the dread and mobilize against the last socially acceptable prejudice. "Aging is not a problem to be fixed or a disease to be cured," she says. "It is a natural, powerful, lifelong process that unites us all."

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Combatting Ageism

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ThisChairRocks.com

Organization's Country

Global

Sector

Civil Society Organization

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