Ashton Applewhite
Anti-Ageism Activist | 'This Chair Rocks' Author & TED Speaker
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Ashton Applewhite is a leading voice in the anti-ageism movement. She is the author of the acclaimed book 'This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism', named one of the Washington Post's 100 Best Books to Read at Every Age.
Applewhite has been recognized by the UN and WHO as one of the inaugural Healthy Ageing 50, and was awarded the Maggie Kuhn Prize for visionary leadership. As a TED main stage speaker, she offers audiences science-backed strategies for confronting age discrimination and embracing the gifts of longer lives.
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Let's end ageism
It's not the passage of time that makes it so hard to get older. It's ageism, a prejudice that pits us against our future selves -- and each other. Ashton Applewhite urges us to dismantle the dread and mobilize against the last socially acceptable prejudice. "Aging is not a problem to be fixed or a disease to be cured," she says. "It is a natural, powerful, lifelong process that unites us all."
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