🎉engAGE welcomes new Director Dr. Kim Sawchuk! As the new Director of engAGE, we look forward to Kim contributing to the life of the Centre with the same energy and spirit of engagement established by the Centre's previous Directors. 🎉 @Concordia@ConcordiaUnews@FASConcordia
Toronto’s Buddies in Bad Times Theatre 🎭, founded in 1979, is a creative space for artists of all ages, including #LGBTQ2S+ #seniors. Let's celebrate the intersection of age, sexuality, and art this #PrideMonth and #NationalSeniorsMonth! #CanQueer 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
⁉️ Have questions about data? The Aging in Data project has plenty. Join us as we think them through with @unmil on Thursday, June 22nd!
📋 This is an online only workshop. Don't forget to sign up here so we can send you the zoom link: https://t.co/hI6Z6R3Gvz
⏰Still time to register for the upcoming seminar on March 9th at 2:30pm by Amanda Bull where she discusses her thesis research! Join us via zoom OR in person in L.R.Wilson Hall for a live viewing session. Register here: https://t.co/JoZYt99HkQ
🎙️NEW podcast episode🎙️Age Panic! on Wrinkle Radio. We can’t fight the forces that make us fear aging 'til we take a closer look. We talk about long-term care, the silver tsunami, stories that divide generations, & how it's not your fault if you don't “age well.” @ACT_Concordia
New paper in the German Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie - "Doing Vulnerability - Soziale Konstruktionen des Alter(n)s während der COVID-19 Pandemie" https://t.co/vu4MWrE5og with K. Bohrn, R. Rohner and @fkolland @KLKrems
Reframing aging requires that we not only change the way we talk about older people but that we are intentional about the images we choose to represent them.
We recently published a new report w/@AARPresearch with guidance on this. Check it out | https://t.co/KbVl9rjy8u
Inside aging masculinities and gerontological careers
Journal of Aging Studies, Stephen Katz, W. Andrew Achenbaum, Thomas R. Cole, Brian de Vries
https://t.co/T4ay21XQIh
Our age-positive image library has over 2,000 photos of older people depicted in positive and realistic ways.
Download the images here: https://t.co/giDlIqmFnk
Data, a place for age-based discrimination? Unfortunately, yes
#Public#statistics on #digitization rocket but they (still) make people 75+ invisible. What are the consequences?
Our reflection is here 👇🏽
with @greli11
https://t.co/4X8vFGrwuf
Heaps of thanks to @ACT_Concordia and their gracious team for a constructive, creative, and fun few days thinking through the future(s) of Aging in Data.
Looking forward to continued partnerships (and grasshoppers🦗)!