Question

1. What is your relationship to aging and to time? Look back on your own life. How much and in what ways did you change in ten years and in twenty years? Does a decade seem like a long time or a short time in a life span? Now apply some of your ideas to the idea of aging. Do you think older people share similar experiences as they age?

2. Make a list of all the biases, generalizations, and stereotypes about elderly people that you have seen or heard. Include everything, no matter how small or seemingly trivial. Try to rate the items on your list. Which statements can be considered myths? Which frequently turn into discrimination?

Answer 1

My relationship with again and time is time although moves slow in terms of growing old and becoming an adult moves slowly through hours and day even the last minute as we wait to leave school each day.I would say in 10 year a person can change quite a bit from becoming more grown physocally in their looks or emotionally more stable. Although time to us moves slow it feels as if years move by very swiftly. In my mind aging is the older the wiser no young adult today knows quite as much as their grandmother or great grandmother.Take it as a recipe parents always seem to have learned their best meals from their elders.

-old people are more wise although their memory is not as good