Tuesday, April 3, 2018
12:15–2:00 pm
William K. Sanford Town Library (Colonie) Map
629 Albany Shaker Rd, Colonie, NY 12211
This program will have two speakers:
Susan Harris, EdD, proposes ways to reject the mantle of ageism and shape the future we envision and want for ourselves. We elders must insist on being treated with dignity and respect, not only in our final act, but across our entire life cycle.
Susan’s career spans the fields of education, workforce development, and public health. Her consistent mission has been to educate students, workers, consumers, and, now, retirees to act independently and to make choices with DIGNITY and self-respect.
Ellen Cole, PhD, will share the results of her 8-year research project on aging. She will present what women say about their lives, the challenges and the joys, and conclude with what we can learn about thriving in one’s 8th decade and beyond. She will discuss her most recent books, Retiring but Not Shy: Feminist Psychologists Create their Post-Careers (with Mary Gergen) and 70 Candles: Women Thriving in their Eighth Decade (with Jane Giddan).
Ellen is currently a professor of psychology at the Sage Colleges, where she teaches master’s-level graduate students who are becoming licensed mental health counselors. She has co-edited the journal Women & Therapy, and authored and edited many books.
The meeting is free and open to the public.
A video of Part One of the program is available at https://vimeo.com/266509962 Part Two is available at https://vimeo.com/266517349