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"When I talk to my students about old age, I might as well be talking about Mars," says the gerontologist Franz Kolland. "Our current image of old age always has to do with dependence on others and disease." Negative preconceptions are embedded in our collective thought and are often expressed in discriminating ways such as Alzheimer's jokes. When looking at the population as a whole, the fact that today very many people live to an advanced age is a relatively recent phenomenon, and we therefore lack the concepts for dealing with these people in a socially integrative manner. How will we live, work and learn in the future when we are older? What will happen when care becomes necessary and our independent lives come to end? Where are the models that already show the alternatives for the future?
Broadcast date: Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015, 10:35 p.m., ORF 2, kreuz & quer
Authors & directors: Thomas Grusch and Elizabeth Krimbacher
Commissioning Editor: Barbara Krenn
A tausend Rosen production for ORF, 2015
