Why You Feel Younger (or Older) Than Your Age
Tracey Gendron · youtube · single
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 becomes the failure — and the phrase quietly does the work of the age bias it appears to resist.
Gendron chairs the Department of Gerontology at Virginia Commonwealth University and wrote Ageism Unmasked. Here she offers a different way to think about what growing older actually is.
