Elder Rights are our next social movement in Canada. We are in it now. And it is up to each of us to actively reject ageism, and replace it with new conceptions of age. We must not do this for others. We must do it for ourselves. For they are we.
Laura Watts is a lawyer and the National Director of the Canadian Centre for Elder Law. Annually she organizes the Canadian/International Conference on Elder Law, to be held in Toronto, Ontario, October 28-30, 2010 at the Delta Chelsea hotel. More info can be found at: www.bcli.org/ccel

Heather Campbell is an Articling Student at the Canadian Centre for Elder Law.

Keywords: seniors, ageism