• Which segment did you find most interesting and why?

I found the section on words the describe the elderly very interesting. Language has such a big impact on how we view things and are able to express ourselves. The words and suffixes we relate with the elderly can have a big impact on how we view them. In English/America, I feel like we tend to associate the word elderly with feeble or frail, we don't really see people referring to them as revered or respectable. 

• Which event(s) led to the passing of an Elderly Rights Law (Article 207 of the Civil Code) in France? What do you you take away from this?

15,000 people committed suicide, most of them were elderly. People in America will tend to ignore their parents, and as both get older that increases. Sometimes we ignore the fact that they have complex emotions too because we view them as a fraction of their younger self. But they do have feelings, and when the people they raised leave and emotionally neglect them and the rest of society treats them like they don't have a purpose it gets hard to keep having motivation through aging. 

• What are highly specialized skills and knowledge that come from old age? Give examples from at least 3 different cultures.

In Hawaii, grandmothers are usually very good at creating leis. They can have great experience at skills they built up over time. In New Guinea witnessed a typhoon and learned important survival skills, which people revered her for. In America, most presidents and supreme court justices are over 50. This might be because they have had time to experience a lot that life has to offer and have had time to get an education.