Successful Aging: Fighting back against age discrimination and its false assumptions

Q.  I am an older woman who was terminated from my job after 25 years. The company was sold and I was replaced by a millennial tech wizard. The new owner did not like me and treated me as though I knew nothing – even told me to shut up. On to another job, which had a computer system that was new to me. After the owner found out I was 72 years old, he suggested my hearing was going and asked why it took so long to identify who was on the phone. I left that job. Let me know I can w