On Aging with Adrienne Corn

The podcast explores aging, challenging the youth-obsessed societal view that regards it as a curse. It features Adrienne Corn, a social scientist writing a book on aging, who advocates embracing aging with curiosity and learning. Corn and the host discuss how Western culture lacks healthy images of aging, particularly for women, and how this fear of aging overshadows potential happiness in later life. They emphasize the importance of intergenerational connections, informal learning, and cultivating gratitude to build a new world for older people. The conversation touches on the need for a new "canon" and landscape architecture to restore a sense of permanence, combating the feeling of loss and displacement as the world rapidly changes.