EP90: Age Friendly: Ending Ageism with Larry Samuel

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The biggest surprise to a man's life is getting</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">old. And it's true:</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">As one ages, the person inside remains the same and what changes is the exterior. In this episode, I</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">have a conversation</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">with Larry Samuel, the author of Age Friendly: Ending Ageism in America, Aging in America: A Cultural History, and Boomers 3.0: Marketing to Baby Boomers in Their Third Act of Life. We discuss insights on aging in America and its cultural history and how today's generation should prevent discrimination just as when it's their turn to get older.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Key points covered in this episode: </span></p> <p><strong>✔️ The idea of aging and ageism in America is a 200-year-old story.</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Larry Samuel shares, "The first native-born white Americans looked at the founding fathers' generation, the colonialists in an age, as the way they felt they were out of touch. They were fuddy-duddy, and they wanted to reinvent America in their own way. So this goes back spanning 12 or 15 generations.</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">So this generational competition is nothing new."</span></p> <p><strong>✔️ 92% of diversity and equity inclusion</strong> <strong>(DEI)</strong> <strong>people do not consider age as part of their mission. </strong> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">Human</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">R</span><span style= "font-weight: 400;">esources and the DEI folks should lead the way here -- it's up to them to prevent ageism as the gatekeepers to corporate America. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>✔️</strong> <strong>When it comes to age, there's still a lot of this "Us versus Them" approach; and ageism is actually the only -ism we tend to even self impose.</strong> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">Melissa Batchelor reminds us that</span> <strong>"</strong><s