Gerontology research should shift its focus from treating older people as problems to learning from their experiences and wisdom.

“I really had the idea, what do older people know that younger people don't? and could I find that information and distill it in a usable form?”

Older adults are targeted by specific scams and suffer disproportionate financial losses when victimized.

“We do see that when older adults are victimized, they have far more money stolen on average.”

Aging is a universal experience that offers opportunities for growth rather than just a process of inevitable decline.

“our default thought process, myself included, is that aging is all decline. everything about you and your life gets worse. You're less relevant, less attractive, less strong. And we believe it so much because we it's our societal like what we've come to believe that the notion that actually there ar”