Tag: senior autonomy
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Keeping Seniors Safe Shouldn’t Lead To Isolation And Loss Of Autonomy
In their 2018 book “The Coddling of the American Mind”, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt coined the term “safetyism” to identify a cultural belief in which safety has become a sacred value. They describe a modern campus culture where young people are coddled and insulated, protected from people, ideas, and opinions that they deem “unsafe”.…