Archive for June 2014

Ageism in America is deeply imbedded, largely unconscious and  hardly ever confronted. A reader recently sent me a series of cartoons about elderly people. Each panel poked fun at the commonplace inconveniences or afflictions of old age; i.e. incontinence, forgetfulness, general decrepitude, impotence, diminished libido, ineptitude with new gadgets,  etc. The subjects were depicted in…