{"id":15429,"date":"2018-09-05T08:38:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T08:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agefriendlyworld.local.org\/?p=15429"},"modified":"2018-09-05T08:38:44","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T08:38:44","slug":"old-mean-lets-change-way-think-ageing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/old-mean-lets-change-way-think-ageing\/","title":{"rendered":"What does being old mean to you? Let’s change the way we think about ageing."},"content":{"rendered":"

There is no denying that ageism is still prevalent in today\u2019s society. Ask yourself, how often have you forgotten something or somebody\u2019s name and said \u201cI\u2019m having a senior\u2019s moment\u201d? Just like racism and sexism, ageism is not OK. It makes the assumption that all older people are or behave the same. But, just like every other group in society, there is great diversity amongst older people who all have different abilities, backgrounds, behaviours, attitudes, values and outlooks on life. And that\u2019s a good thing.\u00a0 Diversity is what makes life so interesting, so let\u2019s celebrate it.<\/span><\/p>\n

The City of Rockingham (located in Western Australia) asked community members of different ages for their thoughts on the question \u2018What does being old mean to you?\u2019.\u00a0 Participants revealed their answers on camera, which the City turned into a short film clip. The aim of this film clip is to stimulate conversation amongst participants and viewers to get them thinking about older life and what that means. Who decides what or when is \u2018old\u2019 anyway? The result is a fun film clip which shares a wide variety of answers \u2013 from the predictable to the unpredictable, from the serious to the funny (even cheeky). <\/span><\/p>\n

Watch the video What does being old mean to you?<\/a>\u00a0and then ask yourself the question: what does being old mean to\u00a0 you?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Let’s change the way we think about ageing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is no denying that ageism is still prevalent in today\u2019s society. Ask yourself, how often have you forgotten something or somebody\u2019s name and said \u201cI\u2019m having a senior\u2019s moment\u201d? Just like racism and sexism, ageism is not OK. It makes the assumption that all older people are or behave the same. But, just like every other group in society, there is great diversity amongst older people who all have different abilities, backgrounds, behaviours, attitudes, values and outlooks on life. And that\u2019s a good thing.\u00a0 Diversity is what makes life so interesting, so let\u2019s celebrate it.<\/p>\n

The City of Rockingham (located in Western Australia) asked community members of different ages for their thoughts on the question \u2018What does being old mean to you?\u2019.\u00a0 Participants revealed their answers on camera, which the City turned into a short film clip. The aim of this film clip is to stimulate conversation amongst participants and viewers to get them thinking about older life and what that means. Who decides what or when is \u2018old\u2019 anyway? The result is a fun film clip which shares a wide variety of answers \u2013 from the predictable to the unpredictable, from the serious to the funny (even cheeky). <\/p>\n

Watch the video What does being old mean to you?<\/a>\u00a0and then ask yourself the question: what does being old mean to\u00a0 you?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Let’s change the way we think about ageing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":15433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"categories":[550,913],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15429"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15435,"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15429\/revisions\/15435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}