April 7, 2021 - CBC Radio

'Fear ageism, not aging': How an ageist society is failing its elders

"You know, it's deeply disturbing when people start finding reasons to make our older people expendable or seen that they are less important than who they are," says Dr. Samir Sinha, NIA Director of Health Policy Research. We've almost doubled our life expectancy over the last hundred years, and somehow we operate in this framework that those who have aged in our society have become rather 'useless eaters'" says Dr. Sinha.