This course is aimed at guiding students to view older-age related language and communication issues from multidisciplinary perspectives, such as those in Socio-Gerontology, Communication, Sociolinguistics, Marketing, Adult Learning, and Social Work. The covered issues include demographic changes, learning at later life and the associated teacher-student communication issues, communication with older people in medical and care-giving contexts, older people’s use of the media and the media representations,(dementia) older people’s language behaviors and the ways we talk to/with them. Through the completion of the course, students will learn how to communicate with older people in different contexts and have stronger awareness of ageist reproduction in language.