May 1st kicked off a unique and very special social media campaign that runs until the end of the month. It’s called Flip the Script and it’s the brainchild of a group of volunteers led by Janine Vanderburg. Janine is CEO of Encore Roadmap and her mission - one she has chosen to accept - is to tear down the old walls of prejudice surrounding aging. Flip the Script intends to destroy the outdated narratives around aging, particularly in the workplace. Janine Vanderburg offers us her POV this week.

Flip the Script is a social media campaign that has kicked off and runs through the month of May.

It’s the brainchild of a group of volunteers led by Janine Vanderburg, CEO of Encore Roadmap and founder of Changing the Narrative.

Janine returns to The Art 2 Aging this week where she talks about three key scripts that need to be flipped in favour of older adults and why it’s even more urgent today, given the devastating cutbacks to the funding of social programs by DOGE.

When we tell ourselves we will not give in to the vagaries of aging, are we doing ourselves any favors?

Our guest this week on POV is Wayne Lehrer, author of The Art of Conscious Aging.

Wayne holds that in order for us to really live consciously, we need to fully recognize where we are at any given moment.

If we’re 75, we need to accept that our bodies may feel 75 and build from that point forward. As Wayne might put it, “be like a tree and bend with the wind.”

See if Wayne’s words get you thinking, this week on POV.

Audio Time: 6:38