Generations Now

Older Adults Have a Lot to Teach Us About Resilience in the Face of a Pandemic

Cultivating psychological hardiness can help people age to their greatest potential.

‘My grandparents seemed as inseparable from their surroundings as a snail from its shell.’

‘The virus has exposed and exacerbated the toxic intersectionality between compounded inequity and ageism.’

‘The overwhelming embedded stereotype is that over 70, over 75 and you’re on that spiral of decline.’

‘No matter the occasion or the setting, he transformed it.’

‘This year’s class of new ASA board members will more than fulfill our ambitious aspirations.’

In 2020 we experienced the largest drop in life expectancy since World War II.

‘Evacuating elders from nursing homes and assisted living facilities can cause more harm than good.’

My mother helped neighbors, ‘because it was the right thing to do.’

‘I was not prepared for the reality of a patient’s life outside of a hospital or clinic.’