Meet Roxanne

“That’s part of beauty. It’s embracing all stages of life.”

In the Caribbean, women and men have a very different view of aging.

Meet Roxanne, our latest woman of the Pro-age Revolution.

Find out how Roxanne’s experiences in the Caribbean shaped her worldview in this video.

Video Transcript:

In the Caribbean, there is an embracing of getting older. The elders are looked at as people that have knowledge and you party with them.

You know, you go to a party, and there are children, two years old, and there's maybe an elder, a great, we call them aunties, even if they're not your aunt, that is 85.

And they're dancing.

That's a part of beauty. It’s when you embrace all the stages of life. And that's what I want to do. I don't want to be raised here and then lose that part of myself.