Resources

The Pew Research Center says there are, “5 things to keep in mind when you hear about Gen Z, Millennials, Boomers and other generations.”

Generations United’s, “Making the Case for Intergenerational Programs”*

• Intergenerational Service Learning within an Aging Course and Its Impact on Undergraduate Students’ Attitudes about Aging
• Undergraduates Mentoring Older Adults: Breaking Stereotypes
• Everything Gets Better with Age: Traditional College-Aged Student Perspectives on Older Adult Auditors in Multigenerational Classrooms

• A Yale study showed that older people with more positive beliefs about aging lived an average of 7.5 longer than people who equated aging with disease and decline. Actress and activist Jane Fonda and anti-ageism advocate Ashton Applewhite present “Sunday Morning” viewers with a key to living a longer life, by maintaining a better outlook. Dec 1, 2024
• “We are all aging, so ageism is actually a prejudice against our future selves” says Ashton Applewhite in this Let’s End Ageism (discrimination against older people due to negative and inaccurate stereotypes) TED video.
• “What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness”, presented by psychiatrist Robert Waldinger in this TED video.