LibGuides: Older American's Month: Podcasts, Videos, &amp; Films

Videos

Ageism: Explained (2:57) Centre for Ageing Better

Library Databases

These Merced College Library databases provide access to streaming videos.

Films on Demand (Infobase)
Films Media Group is the leading source of high-quality video and multimedia for academic, vocational and life-skills content. Films Media Group serves the education community through its four brands: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Films on Demand Newsreels and Archives (Infobase)
Educators count on Cambridge to provide outstanding media resources that support the development of the whole student, both in and out of the classroom. Cambridge programs provide a practical, accurate, and reliable foundation of knowledge that helps students think through opportunities and choices and reach their potential at school, in work, and in life.
Films on Demand Feature Films (Infobase)
Collection focuses on both current and hard-to-find titles for educational instructional purposes, including literary adaptations, blockbusters, classics, Academy Award winners, and more.
New titles added quarterly. More that 20 popular film genres. Mouse-over effect displays brief description and page tools to save, share and embed links. Filter by MPAA rating, genre and copyright.

Podcasts

This is Growing Old
At this very moment, no matter where we are, we all have one thing in common—from the moment we are born, we are getting older. The experience of aging brings each of us challenges as well as adventures. And if we’re lucky, our lives will tell a tale that we can share to help others on their path.
Aging & InAccessible (NPR)
Looking at aging in various locations around the country.
Aging Well Podcast
The "Aging Well Podcast" is about, well...aging. It's for people of all ages who are interested in aging successfully. The topics include the Spiritual, Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, and Social dimensions of wellness as they relate to living as well and as long as possible, as well as the financial, legal, and housing questions that everyone has about aging well.
The Aging Project
Aging. Everyone’s doing it, right? And it’s a hell of a lot better than the alternative. So why is it so often portrayed as something for women to fear and fight, rather than embrace and celebrate?
The Aging Project is proud to present this trail-blazing podcast series that flips the bird to the notion that women in their forties and above should be either slowly fading into the background, or in a constant battle to look younger. We want to show you how we can all choose to age fabulously and without apology, and to own our age with pride - with great health, style and vitality. Hosted by Shelley Craft, the first season of The Aging Project podcast features candid, no-holds-barred interviews with twelve of the world’s leading and most inspiring minds in the field of aging well. Join Shelley as she discovers how everything from nutrition to meditation, style to gut health (and lots more!), can not only positively impact our journey into middle-life and beyond, but help make it the best time of our lives.

Articles & Videos

This video is a short interview with a number of older Americans who talk about the blessings of aging.

The Blessings of Aging (4:57) The New Yorker

This is a series of resources and conversations around aging by Harvard University's In Focus.

Informed Aging: The Harvard community explores the physical, spiritual and intellectual aspects of growing older by Harvard University