‘OK Boomer’ is the internet’s favourite insult for older persons.
It’s a shorthand for ‘outdated’, ‘irrelevant’ and ‘useless’.
However, OK can also mean the opposite. It also means ‘no problem’, ‘all good’ and ‘let’s go’. For the Agency of Integrated Care (Singapore’s government body for empowered ageing), it means showing the world that older doesn’t mean slower. Silver doesn’t equal stop.
Together with 5 inspiring ‘Boomers’, we launched Break The Silver Ceiling, a movement that turned that very insult into a 23.69km running relay that defiantly spelt ‘Boomer is OK’ along the coast of Singapore.
