As a feminist disability studies scholar working on issues of accessi
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ble and inclusive design, my participation in the Critical Health, Age, and
Disability Collective (CHAD) in summer 2014 was my first introduction
to the field of age studies. I was surprised to find how little my training
had taught me about how to think critically about age and aging—that is,
without treating age as an indelible biological category of deterioration
or conflating aging with disability. …