Act Your Age
Oct 2, 2026 · 29 min · 9 segments
This week HYB connected with two experts to talk about the science of and the culture around aging. The result was a rich head-and-the-heart exploration…
Oct 2, 2026 · 29 min · 9 segments
This week HYB connected with two experts to talk about the science of and the culture around aging. The result was a rich head-and-the-heart exploration…
Rosanne LeipzigGuest
Sari BottonGuestLaura HouseHost[upbeat music] Roseanne, when I interviewed you for The Guardian article about caregiving, you said something that really struck me, which was that aging denial is the biggest disease we have.
I have a 25-year-old niece who was like, when I turned 75, she said, "No, you're just f- you're just 25." And I said, "No, I'm 75.
[laughs] Actually, this is the best time of my life," you know? So I think we live in a society where we don't accept the fact that aging begins at birth, that aging is change, that we have been doing it our entire lives and adapting to changes.
And we are creating a very difficult situation for ourselves, for our future selves, because we take those negative feelings, and we take them right with us into old age or how we look at old age, and we're sabotaging ourselves.
And I think we really need to look at our society and at ourselves individually and how we contribute to that and what we can do about it.
... and that we have to manage in different ways as we get older." And I, I, I think I came up with a pretty good answer to that question.
[upbeat music] Roseanne, when I interviewed you for The Guardian article about caregiving, you said something that really struck me, which was that aging denial is the biggest disease we have.
I have a 25-year-old niece who was like, when I turned 75, she said, "No, you're just f- you're just 25." And I said, "No, I'm 75.
[laughs] Actually, this is the best time of my life," you know? So I think we live in a society where we don't accept the fact that aging begins at birth, that aging is change, that we have been doing it our entire lives and adapting to changes.
And we are creating a very difficult situation for ourselves, for our future selves, because we take those negative feelings, and we take them right with us into old age or how we look at old age, and we're sabotaging ourselves.
And I think we really need to look at our society and at ourselves individually and how we contribute to that and what we can do about it.
... and that we have to manage in different ways as we get older." And I, I, I think I came up with a pretty good answer to that question.
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