Embracing Aging: From Managing Aging to Living It | Tom Stofac | Ep 471

About this episode

What happens when someone who has spent more than four decades studying, managing, and serving older adults suddenly finds himself on the other side of the equation—as the consumer of aging services? For gerontologist and retired aging-services CEO Tom Stofac, that transition has provided a very different perspective on what it means to grow older. In his book Embracing Aging: A Gerontologist's Journey from Provider to Consumer, Stofac reflects on the shift from professionally understanding aging to personally experiencing it. In this episode of The Aging Well Podcast, Tom and Dr. Jeff Armstrong explore what changes when we stop thinking about aging as something to manage and begin experiencing it as something to inhabit. They discuss the importance of perspective, choice, dignity, independence, partnership, and personal agency—and why the language and assumptions surrounding aging can profoundly influence how we experience it. Most importantly, this conversation asks a fundamental question: What does it mean to embrace aging rather than simply endure it? Learn more at https://peaceinthejourneypress.com/ Please, support The Aging Well Podcast by hitting the ‘lik