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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# Joan Ditzion on Aging with Purpose, Passion and Power

By Debbie Galant • Senior Planet • August 15, 2017

> There’s a real need for women to create safe spaces where we can talk together about how we’re dealing with aging: our aging bodies, our aging lives, our aging relationships. All of that.... The stereotypes in our culture about aging are so limited and so off.... I feel that we’re in a living lab, because we’re in an unprecedented demographic boom. And it’s not as if there are any experts out there who know. We’re all at a new stage of evolution in some sense.

  
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