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At 82, fourteen years after doctors gave her two months to live with stage 4 cancer, author and documentarian Beverlye Hyman-Fead talks about aging well,…

Jane Fonda at TEDxWomen on the thirty years that have been added to life expectancy in a single generation, and why they are not a…

A short, pointed piece on how the digital world shuts older people out — portals, passwords, endless changes to how you log in, and nobody…

Poet and coach Minx Boren talks to Phyllis Haynes about ageing well and about journaling as a practice — how putting words on the page…

A short serialised fiction from broadcaster Phyllis Haynes in which a circle of older women discover that the invisibility everyone assumes is their weakness is…

Author Stella Fosse talks to broadcaster Phyllis Haynes about CroneHub and about older women who have no intention of being finished. Fosse left a biotechnology…

Patricia Greenberg talks to producer Phyllis Haynes about her book It’s OK To Be Old and the summit she convened around it. A direct challenge…

Dr. Susan R. Meyer is interviewed by producer Phyllis Haynes about her book Champagne Ladies: Effervescent at Any Age, joined by readers who came to…

Psychologist Susan Pinker went to Sardinia to work out why the island has six times as many centenarians as the Italian mainland. It is not…

Isabel Allende was seventy-one when she gave this talk, and she names the wrinkles herself before anyone else gets the chance. What follows is candid…

Laura Poskin spent nearly five years writing an AARP column on livable communities and intergenerational solidarity before taking over Age-Friendly Greater Pittsburgh. Her talk is…

Geriatrician Samir Sinha asks a blunt question about the extra decades modern medicine has handed us: people are living longer, but are they living well?…

Gillian Larson was cast on Survivor at sixty-one and voted out six days later. A nurse of thirty-eight years, she went home and built a…

Gerontologist Tracey Gendron takes apart the compliment “you’re only as old as you feel.” If feeling young is the goal, she argues, then feeling old…

A pain specialist of twenty-five years, Dr. Brenda Lau was diagnosed with osteopenia despite decades of exercise — and concluded that medicine had been overlooking…

The YouTube arm of Jo Blackwell’s Midlife & Beyond — short, thoughtful videos on ageing well, confidence, retirement and what comes next, delivered from the…

A storytelling series from Third Act Quest in which women over 50 take the stage to share pivotal “aha” moments — the realizations that redirected…

Speaker and author Maggie Wallem Rowe explores how older adults — particularly women — can step out of the cultural shadows and live with full…

In her TEDxKanata talk (2024), education leader turned social entrepreneur Helen Hirsh Spence challenges audiences to adopt a longevity mindset and see aging as an…

In her TEDx Sydney talk, naturopath and speaker Jennifer Jefferies explores what was lost when the elder woman — the Crone — was erased from…

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Connie Schultz reflects on what it means to be a woman over 50 in this TEDxClevelandStateUniversity talk. Drawing on her own journey…

In this TEDxAjijic talk, aging counselor and activist Kat Miller challenges the cultural assumption that aging is primarily a story of loss. Miller argues that…

Actress and comedian Mariann Aalda brings her signature humor to the fight against ageism in this 2020 TEDx talk. Drawing on her own experience navigating…

In one of the most watched TED talks on aging, author and activist Ashton Applewhite makes the case that ageism — prejudice against our future…