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Aging in the Digital Age

A warm welcome to Aging in the Digital Age. My name is Julie Winslett, and I am what is euphemistically called a “senior citizen.” In this society, being “old” generally conjures up negative images, but, for me, it evokes interest. I have always been drawn to old things, old places, and old people. When I was young, I asked old people about their take on life and what and why and how we do things in the interval between birth and death. I figured that by virtue of having lived a long time, they would have the answers. It turned out they didn’t, but they did give me a great deal of good advice and philosophical tidbits to ponder. Now I would like to continue that discussion with my contemporaries.

I named the blog Aging in the Digital Age because the digital age is the time in which we live, not because the discussions will focus on digital technology. It’s true that the cyber world can present challenges for older people that we will discuss, but coping with that type of challenge isn’t the whole of our experience, which is rich in positives as well as negatives that have nothing to do with technology.

We live in an ageist society in which youth is elevated to a coveted position it doesn’t deserve because it hasn’t lived long enough, and our importance ends some time in middle age. As seniors, we have to cope with that. We also have to face inevitable loss, grief, pain, illness, and other negatives. But those things are not reserved for this phase of life only, and earlier phases have given us some experience in handling them. So, while “old age” may connote weakness, trouble, sorrow, decline, and “the end” in our society, I suggest that old age is also a big adventure and a time for discovering many positive things and reaching a certain kind of closure and peace. For me, it’s an interesting and spiritual time of life.

A discussion on a subject relating to senior life is posted at the beginning of each month. I hope you respond to the post with your take on it and, over the month, respond to other readers’ responses, as well. Responses are reviewed, posted, and archived. Your suggestions for topics to discuss are more than welcome.

I look forward to meeting you on the blog.
Julie Winslett

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