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Recently - post our Awards Ceremony and appearance on BBC Radio London with Robert Elms - AofA has had a flurry of new members.
I am Rose and I curate the FB group Advantages of Age - Baby Boomers and Beyond as well as edit the AofA magazine here on Substack where different writers from Jane Duncan Rogers who won our Substack Writer Award and Jody Day who won our AofA Substack Contributor Award to Nadia Chambers who was a finalist in our Personal Inspirational Stories Award and many more all write pieces for us that reflect the narrative of ageing differently. We are so happy to challenge the dismal societal view of getting older. We are a vibrant and warm community.
This is what a new paying subscriber, Heather Dennis, said recently - “I want to belong to a vivacious collective of women who are still contributing to rather than consuming the misguided narrative about growing older.”
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Again, I appreciate and acknowledge your work in enabling seniors with new possibilities for their future. But who you are, generally speaking, is about 18% of the U.S. population. Of those 18%, 20% (11 million total in the U.S.) can recognize and are ready to break free from the cultural conversations about growing old. What I see as missing and needed is developing seniors into Elders so they are legitimately seated at the table with decision-makers about the future. Right now we are not invited. Wisdom unheard is wisdom lost. Another point is that all businesses need funding, revenue, cash flow, leadership, and management. I myself am a Social Enterprise, which, like all Social Enterprises, is not recognized by the IRS. So the business expression, no matter how configured, has real Federal and State tax liabilities. And regulatory compliance and management of a non-profit, where generating funding is a significant function, is not feasible for most seniors. So it's not just having an idea for a business, going through all the things that make a business real, and developing the wherewithal to advance in the business ecosystem; it's operationalizing the business and continuously funding its operations. Believe me, I understand these problems. I live them every day at my own enterprise, The Contemporary Elder Institute.
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