The feedback I have gotten on "The Elderly in America" focuses on the choice of the word "elderly" because it seems like no one accepts that as their status in life. To emphasize this point is a column "On Language" by Jack Rosenthal. He reviews a number of terms used to describe people of a certain age, and concludes that no one term can encompass the wide variety of experience. People are living older and healthier; or poorer and sicker. Terms like "wellderly" and "illderly" (both new to my vocabulary) attempt to capture a single dimension. We don't have the words yet to describe what Rosenthal calls "our new age of age." Source: Jack Rosenthal, July 22, 2007, NY Times Magazine
Does anyone have any better ideas than "elderly" for my project?? How do you like "Living with Age" as a title? And maybe "in America" is a bit grandiose, at least it will be Essex County in Mass. where I start.
The "Elderly"?
The feedback I have gotten on "The Elderly in America" focuses on the choice of the word "elderly" because it seems like no one accepts that as their status in life. To emphasize this point is a column "On Language" by Jack Rosenthal. He reviews a number of terms used to describe people of a certain age, and concludes that no one term can encompass the wide variety of experience. People are living older and healthier; or poorer and sicker. Terms like "wellderly" and "illderly" (both new to my vocabulary) attempt to capture a single dimension. We don't have the words yet to describe what Rosenthal calls "our new age of age." Source: Jack Rosenthal, July 22, 2007, NY Times Magazine
Does anyone have any better ideas than "elderly" for my project?? How do you like "Living with Age" as a title? And maybe "in America" is a bit grandiose, at least it will be Essex County in Mass. where I start.