Empowering Seniors to Step From the Shadows
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Maggie Wallem Rowe |
TEDxLakeJunaluska
• March 2021
In western culture older women in particular often feel unseen and unheard, consigned to the margins rather than being in the middle of the stories society elevates. Maggie Wallem Rowe makes the case that self-prejudice is an unrecognized form of discrimination practiced when older women and men define themselves by what they no longer have instead of what they've yet to give. Four things can help seniors step from the shadows into the vibrancy of the final third of life.