Women, Aging & Myths: 10 Steps to Loving Your Long Life. This item is unavailable.Women, Aging & Myths: 10 Steps to Loving Your Long Life

When you think of becoming an older woman, do your thoughts turn mostly positive or negative?

Why? For many, they turn negative—almost by default. If this is you or someone you know, you might be bound by cultural myths about women’s aging. We are aged by biology and culture—especially women. Growing old alone, becoming invisible, dependent, sick, a bag lady, or fearing the uncertainty, are not the inevitable outcomes of living a long life. At least they don't have to be for you.

Many of our views on aging, and women’s aging specifically, are simply past myths lingering in a youth-obsessed culture. Only recently have these false narratives been challenged. This book takes on ten myths about women and aging, explores theories, and tells the myth-busting lived experiences of ten women defying them. You will come away inspired and looking forward to loving your long life.

You will learn:

• Why it is not about "anti-aging"
• The Grandmother Hypothesis (no need to be a grandmother)
• How to beat bag lady fears
• Why Negative Visualization can support your independence
• What Social Capital is and how to leverage it for longevity
• How decluttering now is an act of love
• Why novelty and complexity should be a daily experience as you age
• A simple technique for reframing aging that will be your new superpower
• The components of a systems approach to healthy aging
• Dreams denied do not have to be, and more . . .

Women find themselves, in this culture, at the apex of ageism and sexism, and for women of color, racism. The underlying theme of this book is “possibility aging,” not anti-aging, but aging well within your age and changing cultural myths.

“I had the best year of my life at 80!”
—DeEtte Sauer/U.S. Masters Swimmer