ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors aim to bring home the message of the need to pay attention to intersectionality and interlocking oppressions in their work, in other words, to be anti-oppressive gerontologists, by telling a few stories about the everyday lives and realities of older adults, their families, and communities. They present the stories of four older adults and the challenges they face in their interactions with various sites and sectors of health and social care as a starting point for questioning the way things operate and how they could be different. The authors introduce the intersectional life course approach and the life course lifeline as a tool of anti-oppressive analysis and intervention. They examine students in counter-storytelling through a step-wise exercise. Counter-storytelling is an opportunity to imagine what things would be like if anything was possible.
