ABSTRACT
This chapter explores contemporary and emerging intergenerational ethics as a framework for anti-ageist practices and the future planning of ageing societies. Discussion moves through critiques of the limitations of medical bioethics and age-blaming discourses of popular ‘apocalyptic’ demography, followed by revisiting ‘population’ and ‘generation’ as more inclusive theoretical and ethical concepts. The final section promotes The Intergenerational Schools (TIS) in Cleveland, Ohio, a creation of Peter and Catherine Whitehouse, as a bold learning and ethical model of ‘intergenerativity’ that embraces public health approaches, long-term and environmental legacies, interdisciplinary arts and knowledges, and intergenerational communities and strategies.
