Terry Fulmer Authors Guest Essay on Next Avenue: Fighting Ageism and Unfair Treatment in Health Care
Dr. Terry Fulmer recently published a guest essay in Next Avenue on "Fighting Ageism and Unfair Treatment in Health Care." Next Avenue invited all its 2016 Influencers in Aging to write essays about the one thing they would like to change about aging in America. Dr. Fulmer's essay was included in this compilation.
"While one of our great success stories in the 20th century was the stunning gain in human longevity, recent research from The Frameworks Institute, funded by my group, The John A. Hartford Foundation, and others, has found that the majority of us still don’t recognize ageism or its deleterious effects. They call it a “cognitive hole,” a mental blind spot," she wrote.
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