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We may think we know what lies ahead: a grim slide into depression, dementia and dependence. But that’s just the party line, and author and activist Ashton Applewhite debunks it in spades.

Part monologue, part consciousness-raiser, This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto against Ageism dispels myth after myth about late life and proposes an alternative to worrying about getting old: wake up to the ageist messages that frame two thirds of our lives as decline, cheer up and push-back.

It’s time to work together to make discrimination on the basis of age as unacceptable as any other prejudice.