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How ageism accelerates invisible decline

My grandmother is 94 and sharper than most people half her age but everyone talks to her like she is already gone and I can see her disappearing a little each time it happens.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Social expectations of diminishment become self-fulfilling prophecies that erode vitality through assumed irrelevance.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Aging and time acceleration?”

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