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05/08/2025

It's Older Americans Month! The theme for 2025 is "Flip the Script on Aging" which will focus on transforming how society perceives, talks about, and approaches aging.
Check out some of our conversations on aging:
https://www.moviesaboutaging.org/presentations-events/

03/12/2025

Lolly Font, Yoga Rebel
Good things come in small packages—and brief ones as well. Though a short film, Lolly Font: Yoga Rebel has strong relevance for gerontological theorists, researchers, and educators, particularly those interested in the evolving meanings of successful aging.
https://www.moviesaboutaging.org/?s=lolly+font&id=7666

02/06/2025

Exercise: It's Never Too Late
Exercise: It Is Never Too Late is the video equivalent of an energy drink, designed to perk up older sedentary viewers benumbed by myths of age-related activity.
https://www.moviesaboutaging.org/?s=exercise&id=7666

01/22/2025

No Time to Waste: The Urgent Mission of Betty Reid Soskin
No Time to Waste introduces us to 95-year-old African-American Betty Soskin, a woman who has lived through sharply dissonant epochs of racism in the United States.
https://www.moviesaboutaging.org/?s=no+time+to+waste&id=7666

01/17/2025

The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life
When this documentary was produced, its main subject, Alice Herz-Sommer, was 109 years old. Alice was born in 1903 in Prague, where her parents were involved in the literary and musical milieu of the early twentieth century. She began playing the piano at an early age and went on to become a well-known concert pianist.

Her career was cut short when Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939.
https://www.moviesaboutaging.org/?s=the+lady+in+number+6&id=7666

01/15/2025

Inga
Inga opens and ends with two major entries (Kapitels or “chapters”) she writes in her journal. The first and briefer is “Love.” In her poetic vocal narrative, she offers her views of love’s evolving meanings and changing phases across the life span.
https://www.moviesaboutaging.org/?s=inga&id=7666

01/14/2025

Being 97
This thought-filled, evocative video focuses on Herbert Fingarette, 97-year-old grandfather of videographer Andrew Hasse. During his distinguished career, Fingarette spent 40 years as a philosophy teacher at UC Santa Barbara. He was a prolific contributor to published works in several philosophical venues. Fingarette serves as the sole narrator of his own musings.
https://www.moviesaboutaging.org/?s=Being+97&id=7666

10/16/2024

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
With an acerbic script by British writer Katy Brand and Australian director Sophie Hyde at the helm, Leo Grande has a modest premise. Nancy Stokes (Emma Thompson) is a retired religious education secondary school teacher who has been widowed for 2 years. As she describes it, her marriage (and the perfunctory s*x), was less a “furnace of passion” and more like “the cooling draw of an Aga oven.” Nancy hires young, handsome s*x worker Leo Grande (Daryl McCormack), to explore what she has missed out on for the last 30 odd years. https://www.moviesaboutaging.org/?s=good+luck&id=7666

10/02/2024

Advanced Style
Advanced Style is a documentary, released 6 years after Ari Seth Cohen, an urban photographer, started a blog by the same name at just 26 years old. The film and blog, as well as four books, feature women aged 60 plus who possess elegant and eccentric fashion sense. Cohen admits the project began as “a way to connect with [his] grandmother” who encouraged him to explore the belief that age is no barrier to an intentional appearance.
https://www.moviesaboutaging.org/?s=advanced&id=7666

09/25/2024

The Mole Agent
Have you ever wished to be a “fly on the wall” in a residential care facility so you could observe the kind of care being given to a family member, or just to see the kind of dynamic being played out between residents and staff? Watching "The Mole Agent" will give you a sense of what that would be like.
https://www.moviesaboutaging.org/?s=the+mole+agent&id=7666

09/17/2024

Life and Death in Assisted Living (reviewed by Eilon Caspi, PhD)
The PBS/ProPublica investigation of Emeritus revealed systemic neglect resulting in the death of several older adults with dementia. The film describes the traumas experienced by the residents caused by these incidents and the devastation to their families.
https://www.moviesaboutaging.org/?s=life+and+death&id=7666

09/12/2024

Determined: Fighting Alzheimer's
Determined: Fighting Alzheimer’s introduces us to a remarkable and dynamic longitudinal study begun in 2001 that tracks a community-based sample of adult children with parents diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease (AD).
https://www.moviesaboutaging.org/?s=determined&id=7666

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