
This Chair Rocks
A Manifesto Against Ageism
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Ashton Applewhite
“Wow. This book totally rocks. It arrived on a day when I was in deep confusion and sadness about my age. Everything about it, from my invisibility to my neck. Within four or five wise, passionate pages, I had found insight, illumination, and inspiration. I never use the word empower, but this book has empowered me.” (Anne Lamott, New York Times best-selling author)
This program is read by the author.
Author, activist, and TED speaker Ashton Applewhite has written a rousing manifesto calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age.
In our youth obsessed culture, we’re bombarded by media images and messages about the despairs and declines of our later years. Beauty and pharmaceutical companies work overtime to convince people to purchase products that will retain their youthful appearance and vitality. Wrinkles are embarrassing. Gray hair should be colored and bald heads covered with implants. Older minds and bodies are too frail to keep up with the pace of the modern working world, and elders should just step aside for the new generation.
Ashton Applewhite once held these beliefs, too, until she realized where this prejudice comes from and the damage it does. Lively, funny, and deeply researched, This Chair Rocks traces her journey from apprehensive Boomer to pro-aging radical, and in the process debunks myth after myth about late life.
Explaining the roots of ageism in history and how it divides and debases, Applewhite examines how ageist stereotypes cripple the way our brains and bodies function, looks at ageism in the workplace and the bedroom, exposes the cost of the all-American myth of independence, critiques the portrayal of elders as burdens to society, describes what an all-age-friendly world would look like, and offers a rousing call to action.
It’s time to create a world of age equality by making discrimination on the basis of age as unacceptable as any other kind of bias. Whether you’re older or hoping to get there, this audiobook will shake you by the shoulders, cheer you up, make you mad, and change the way you see the rest of your life. Age pride!
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Critic reviews
“Applewhite offers a fierce and funny yet practical and thoughtful manifesto on how such negativity can be combated on individual and societal levels. Offering much food for thought and abundant realistic steps to engender positive change, Applewhite's guide is an essential tool for enjoying healthy and happy aging.” (Booklist)
Wonderful book!
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Older and Bolder
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A lot to think about
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I appreciate this book so much!
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Everyone should read this book!
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I especially appreciate the ways this author connected her research and advice to those of Atul Gawande in his book, ‘Being Mortal.’
Great piece of work!
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Changed my view
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Ashton Applewhite has done her homework - and delivers a manifesto that reflects so much good research - and brilliant wisdom. She does it powerfully with humor, humility, and a bit of hubris. I’m fanboying here… and the “older” activist in me is not only woke, but chomping at the bit to get the world to stop the bullshit of ageism and age-phobia. Thank you, Ashton!
-59 years old, proud as f*ck, and again, utterly transformed.
“Aged pride is for all of us”
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Learned I'm an age nonconformist!
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This book came at a pivotal place in my life.
It had been a slap in the face moment prior to finding this remarkable fact filled book realizing what I had become ... ONWARD my Dad would have said and Thank you!
Oddly Smiling throughout
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