To Age Well, Change How You Feel About Aging

Today's topic is about aging. Aging is a universal issue. We all are aging. Many of us believe in negative stereotypes about getting older and they can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. How could improve your mind-set and well-being? I've read an article about aging in accordance with opportunity and growth. How would you reffer to getting older?


The article I read was "To Age Well, Change How You Feel About Aging"
http://www.wsj.com/articles/to-age-well-change-how-you-feel-about-aging-1445220002?mod=trending_now_3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jzjlUeKx3s



Related Articles, Findings and a Website
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/267043642_Subliminal_Strengthening_Improving_Older_Individuals%27_Physical_Function_Over_Time_With_an_Implicit-Age-Stereotype_Intervention

http://changingaging.org/

http://gerontologist.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/01/31/geront.gns194.full




Questions

1. How do you feel about getting older as time goes by?


2. Do you think aging implicates opportunity or growth rather than getting older phisically and emotionally for the worse?


3. Do you feel you are getting much stronger and mature than the past?


4. Do you think getting older has a bad connotation?


5. When you think of elderly people, do you have any kind of stereotypes that pop up in your mind?


6. Aging is typically associated with decline. But many older adults report a better quality of life than younger adults. Do you agree on this notion?


7. Are you afraid of getting older?

Image of Drowned Syrian Boy Echoes Around World

http://www.wsj.com/articles/image-of-syrian-boy-washed-up-on-beach-hits-hard-1441282847


It's an article about a Syrian todler found washed up on the Turkish beach. The picture was posted on the front pages of news papers a few days ago. That was an horrifying and shocking image. The boy and his family members were all drowned on the beach except his father. They all were trying to get to Canada from Kobane, Syria for escaping Islamic State extreamists. They were on the boat with other refugees and the wave were so high and it flipped all of sudden. It's desperate and it's not only about the boy's tragic death. It's a symbol, representing a huge humanitarian crisis echoing around the world. I feel so sad just looking at the picture of him. God bless all the refugees who struggle to be accepted into other safe countries.

Q. Do you think european nations should admit more refugees into their countries?
Q. Should the images of the drown boy have been posted on the news papers and shared on social media?
Q. Are the european countries responsible for many refugees' death?