Redesigning Age | David Harry Stewart | TEDxAsburyPark
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- David Harry Stewart: Photographer, Founder and Face of AGEIST
Increasing longevity is allowing people to work well past the official age of retirement, and those age 50+ are now a critically important demographic. Their political, social and economic standing makes them the most powerful generation to have ever lived. David suggests that our attitude towards later life needs a reboot at every level and that we have locked ourselves into a culture that is anti-age. David is the founder of the media and research company AGEIST, whose purpose is to reinvent how life after 50 is lived.
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It is well-documented that people over 50 are living in radically different ways than their parents, and those who are 50+ are now a critically important demographic. Their political, social and economic standing makes them the most powerful generation to have ever lived. David is the founder of media and research company AGEIST, whose purpose is to reinvent how life after 50 is lived, experienced, and understood. He says this is best achieved through design and modern media tactics rather than legislation, and until this is embraced, we will fail to see the real economic, humanitarian, and cultural benefits of increasing longevity. David suggests that our attitude towards later life needs a reboot at every level. He says that we’ve locked ourselves into a culture that is anti-age and it is evident throughout media, organizations, and even in the language we use. “Redesigning Age” It is well-documented that people over 50 are living in radically different ways than their parents, and those who are 50+ are now a critically important demographic. Their political, social and economic standing makes them the most powerful generation to have ever lived. David is founder of media and research company AGEIST, whose purpose is to reinvent how life after 50 is lived, experienced, and understood. He says this is best achieved through design and modern media tactics rather than legislation, and until this is embraced, we will fail to see the real economic, humanitarian, and cultural benefits of increasing longevity. David suggests that our attitude towards later life needs a reboot at every level. He says that we’ve locked ourselves into a culture that is anti-age and it is evident throughout media, organizations, and even in the language we use. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
Love this, so inspiring, thank you!
I always wanted to be like my grandfather, he was so alive while my parents are so conservative. I understand why some older people fall through the cracks, they become stories of what not to do, my grandfather died at 88 hiking the grand canyon even though he had a bad heart. He said once to me, living to simply survive is death before it happens.
Yes true, how many old men die a few days after retiring, because work was their life, I want more than that.
I heard there are 2 truths, every man will die, and only a few will truly live
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Wow, this stat: 40% of the American pop is over the age of 50... & I also agree with David >> I'm not down with this either: Let's move these people over to some kind of semi-invisible medicalized group over here... Let's redesign aging in America!
Such a thrill to be up on that stage! Highlight of a lifetime. Thank you TEDx AsburyPark for your mentoring and support. Great team there and I am so happy to have been part of the event.
Wish I had known you were here! Now I have to fly to LAX for the first YBL conference!🤣
Very good talk David!!
I am in my late 40's and thank you, you make me feel better about taking the next steps in life.
Brilliance! This man knows what he's talking about. I have family who are in their mid-70's and still going so strong. I can't stand the lies all of us have been fed, how we have to fit these molds based on our ages, our successes... I love the humanity is currently in the midst of redefining what it means to live our lives.
This is gold, thanks for emailing me the link Blaise.
@@sonthibutsalee welcome!!
wow great post Blaise, you find the best stuff.
Great job! I am 64 and going strong!
Thank you! 64 is a great age, lets keep pushing ahead.
Considering where everything sits in 2020 this a refreshing talk about aging differently. Retirement, never liked that word, is a time to finally live more freely! Very inspiring.
I feel this only becomes a problem when you make an issue of it at all. Though not easy to ignore also. 54 now and i barely feel and live much different than half my age, actually i don't quite understand how it would happen that social identity, "social age" or phase of life changes as long as you stay healthy, i basically lived the same life since i was early twenties. At this point though i don't know where i belong to, most people my age actually DO "act their age" being parents, grandparents, having a carreer and stuff i just left out, also try to find a girlfriend at mid 50s that does not act like an old woman, i have not met a single one in the whole last decade of my life.
Heck yes! Spot on!! Fabulous talk!
My grandfather still works, he is 89, and he drinks his one whisky a day and 1 cigar. he says hard work deserves daily pleasure.
Resonant video that captures the zeitgeist of this incredible time of being alive in the second half of life. Bravo.
Couldn't agree more with how people (I'm 64) are spoken to in advertising these days - I like to say - We love a Harley and a really nice leather jacket not Bingo at the Rec Center.
Interesting talk, however the other side of the coin is employment is hampered by a growing elderly population. Good young people are left with lower job chances. And the elderly are costing more to take care of. As uncomfortable as this sounds, it is a discussion we need to have!
I am not there yet but closing in, I thank you though, I am not ready to be put out to be put out to pasture and forgotten, and I don't ever want to be.
Of course we're not done yet, we have a lot of repair and care work to do!
Good job! You spoke with passion and surety, David. Worth our time to continue to think about.
People are Changing their lives at any age now. In the past 20 years with the failing economic climate people became less mobile in a sense moving or traveling to other places and living differently or changing their quality of life decreased in my opinion.
Good point, makes sense that economics and mobility are linked.
AGEIST I mean if im in an area where meeting a great person is my goal but that just isnt here and the finances wont allow me to move to where there are better # s then it looks as if im stuck or selectively single. It does make sense about the Chattanooga TN area....
Time has come for boomers to generate value and stewardship in their best years. I'm committed to maximizing our contribution.
so that you may payback the ways in which you've cost future generations?
Great job, David! I completely redefined my career after 50 to create my "next act" and I'm loving it.
Awesome Larry! That takes guts, but shows that we can change what is not working for us.
love it! strong people are hard to kill!
Ha! You have seen our tote bags. Yes, stay strong, live long!
Positive and inspiring!