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By: Laura Allen & Wenqian Xu I recently saw The Farewell in theaters, a film "based on an actual lie" from writer and director Lulu Wang's personal experience. The movie follows a family who has decided not to tell their grandmother (in Chinese: Nai Nai), that she has a terminal illness with a prognosis of only 3 months to live. Billi, the protagonist, is a Chinese-American granddaughter in her 20s who feels a strong conviction to tell Nai Nai the truth. The plot follows the...

By: Hanna Köttl, ESR 11 Older people are often stereotypically portrayed as vulnerable when they could be powerful drivers for societal change. To overcome the erroneous and negative representations of ageing as a social and economic burden we need to emphasise the potential of later life and older adults. The immense diversity is, in fact, the result of a tremendous variety of experiences, values, capabilities, interests and life challenges. Those resources are already shared by older adults contributing to society as volunteers, employees or entrepreneurs,...