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Gerontophobia is the fear of age-related self-degeneration (similar to Gerascophobia), or a hatred or fear of the elderly due to memento mori.^{[citation needed]} The term comes from the Greek γέρων – gerōn, "old man"^[1] and φόβος – phobos, "fear".^[2] Gerontophobia has been linked to Thanatophobia as fear of old age can be a precursor to fear of death. Gerontophobia can be caused by harmful stereotypes of Elderly people displayed in the media^[3]

Ageism

Discriminatory aspects of ageism have been strongly linked to gerontophobia. This irrational fear or hatred of the elderly can be associated with the expectation that someday all young people including oneself will be old inevitably and suffer from the irreversible health decline that comes with old age, which is associated with disability, disease, and death. The sight of aged people could be a possible reminder of death (memento mori) and inevitable biological vulnerability. This unwillingness to accept these can manifest in feelings of hostility and discriminatory acts towards the elderly.

History[edit]

Old age was previously seen as a golden age in the Middle Ages^[4] Around the time of the Anglo-Saxons there was a shift towards more negative views of the elderly this led to more and more literature developing a Gerontophobic view^[5]

Portrayal in the media[edit]

Gerontophobia is heavily portrayed in the media starting as early as Anglo-saxon poetry^[6] but is also found in common literary classics such as Shakespeare's King Lear, Johnathan Swifts' Gulliver's Travels, and Jane Austen's Persuasion^[7] Gerontophobia can also be found in many TV shows and movies^[8]

Treatments for Gerontophobia[edit]

Treatment for Gerontophobia can include better education about elderly and aging as well as an increase in exposure and insight therapy^[9]

References

^ γέρων, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
^ φόβος, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
^ "The Manifestation of Gerontophobic Stereotypes in Russian Television - Media Watch Journal". 2020-12-21. doi:10.15655/mw/2020/v11i4/204638. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
^ Burrow, J. A. (1986). The ages of man : a study in medieval writing and thought. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-167098-5. OCLC 610591940.
^ Porck, Thijs (2020). "Gerontophobia in Early Medieval England: Anglo-Saxon Reflections on Old Age". Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World: 219–235, 278–282, 287. doi:10.17613/zbgk-yv52.
^ Porck, Thijs (2020). "Gerontophobia in Early Medieval England: Anglo-Saxon Reflections on Old Age". Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World: 219–235, 278–282, 287. doi:10.17613/zbgk-yv52.
^ "Aging and the Elderly: Humanistic Perspectives in Gerontology, Aging and Income: Programs and Projects for the Elderly, Normal Psychology of the Aging Process and Old and Cold: Hypothermia and Social Policy". Social Work. 24 (3): 258–258. 1979-05-01. doi:10.1093/sw/24.3.258. ISSN 0037-8046.
^ Sorokin, Gennadii G. (2020-12-01). "The Manifestation of Gerontophobic Stereotypes in Russian Television". Media Watch. 11 (4). doi:10.15655/mw/2020/v11i4/204638. ISSN 2249-8818.
^ BUNZEL, JOSEPH H. (February 1973). "Recognition, Relevance and Deactivation of Gerontophobia: Theoretical Essay". Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 21 (2): 77–80. doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.1973.tb01222.x. ISSN 0002-8614.

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Forms	Institutional Structural Statistical Taste-based
Attributes	Age Caste Class Dialect Disability Genetic Hair texture Height Language Looks Mental disorder Race / Ethnicity Skin color Scientific racism Rank Sex Sexual orientation Species Size Viewpoint
Social	Arophobia Acephobia Adultism Anti-albinism Anti-autism Anti-homelessness Anti-drug addicts Anti-intellectualism Anti-intersex Anti-left handedness Anti-Masonry Aporophobia Audism Biphobia Clannism Elitism Ephebiphobia Health mental in poverty Fatphobia Gayphobia Gerontophobia Heterosexism HIV/AIDS stigma Homophobia In-group Leprosy stigma Lesbophobia Discrimination against men Misandry Misogyny Nepotism Outgroup Pedophobia Perpetual foreigner Pregnancy Sectarianism Supremacism Aryanism Autistic Black Chauvinism Female Illusory Jewish Male Nordicism Tigraynization Ultranationalism White Transphobia 21st-century anti-trans movement in the United Kingdom Non-binary Transmisogyny Trans men Vegaphobia Xenophobia
Religious	Atheism Exclusivism Baháʼí Faith Buddhism Christianity Persecution Catholicism Eastern Orthodoxy Jehovah's Witnesses LDS or Mormon Protestantism Tewahedo Orthodoxy post–Cold War era Falun Gong Hinduism Persecution Untouchability Islam Persecution Ahmadiyya Shi'ism Sufism Sunnism minority Muslim Judaism Persecution Neopaganism Rastafari Sikhism Yazidism Zoroastrianism
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Manifestations	Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric SPLC-designated list of anti-LGBTQ hate groups Anti-LGBTQ movement in the US Anti-trans movement in the UK Anti-Zionism Blood libel Bullying Cancel culture Capital punishment for homosexuality Compulsory sterilization Corrective rape Counter-jihad Cultural genocide Defamation Democide Disability hate crime Dog whistle Domicide Economic Education Employment Eliminationism Enemy of the people Ethnic cleansing Ethnic conflict Ethnic hatred Ethnic joke Ethnocide Excellence Gender-based dress codes Cosmetics policy High heel policy Forced conversion Freak show Gay bashing Gendercide Genital modification and mutilation Genocide examples Glass ceiling Hate crime Violence against LGBTQ people Hate group Hate speech Homeless dumping Housing Indian rolling Kill Haole Day Lavender scare LGBTQ+ grooming conspiracy theory List of people killed for being transgender Lynching Mortgage Murder music Native American mascots Occupational segregation Opposition to immigration Paper genocide Persecution Pogrom Political repression Purge Racialization Religious persecution Religious terrorism Religious violence Religious war Scapegoating Segregation academy Sentencing disparity Sexual harassment Sex-selective abortion Slut-shaming Untermensch Trans bashing Victimisation Violence against women White flight White genocide conspiracy theory Wife selling Witch hunt
Discriminatory policies	Age of candidacy Blood purity Blood quantum Crime of apartheid Disabilities Catholic Jewish Gender pay gap Gender roles Transphobia in the US House of Representatives Gerontocracy Gerrymandering Ghetto benches Internment Jewish quota Law for Protection of the Nation LGBTQ rights opposition MSM blood donation restrictions No kid zone Numerus clausus (as religious or racial quota) One-drop rule Racial quota Racial segregation Jim Crow laws Nuremberg Laws Racial steering Redlining Same-sex marriage (laws and issues prohibiting) Segregation age racial religious sexual Social exclusion Sodomy law State atheism State religion Ugly law Voter suppression
Countermeasures	Affirmative action Anti-discrimination law Anti-racism Constitutional colorblindness Cultural assimilation Cultural pluralism Diversity, equity, and inclusion Diversity training Empowerment Fat acceptance movement Feminism Fighting Discrimination Hate speech laws by country Human rights Intersex human rights LGBT rights Nonviolence Racial integration Reappropriation Self-determination Social integration Toleration
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 ==Ageism==
-Discriminatory aspects of [[ageism]] have been strongly linked to gerontophobia. This irrational fear or hatred of the elderly can be associated with the expectation that someday all young people including oneself will be old inevitably and suffer from the irreversible health decline that comes with [[old age]], which is associated with [[disability]], [[disease]] and [[death]]. The sight of aged people could be a possible reminder of death (''[[memento mori]]'') and inevitable biological vulnerability. This unwillingness to accept these can manifest in feelings of hostility and discriminatory acts towards the elderly.
+Discriminatory aspects of [[ageism]] have been strongly linked to gerontophobia. This irrational fear or hatred of the elderly can be associated with the expectation that someday all young people including oneself will be old inevitably and suffer from the irreversible health decline that comes with [[old age]], which is associated with [[disability]], [[disease]], and [[death]]. The sight of aged people could be a possible reminder of death (''[[memento mori]]'') and inevitable biological vulnerability. This unwillingness to accept these can manifest in feelings of hostility and discriminatory acts towards the elderly.
 == History[edit] ==
-Old age was previously seen as a golden age in the Middle Ages<ref>{{Cite book |last=Burrow |first=J. A. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/610591940 |title=The ages of man : a study in medieval writing and thought |date=1986 |publisher=Clarendon Press |isbn=978-0-19-167098-5 |location=Oxford [Oxfordshire] |oclc=610591940}}</ref> Around the time of the Anglo-Saxons there was a shift towards more negative views of the elderly this lead to more and more literature developing a Gerontophobic view<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Porck |first=Thijs |date=2020 |title=Gerontophobia in Early Medieval England: Anglo-Saxon Reflections on Old Age |url=https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:44429/ |journal=Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World |language=en-US |pages=219–235, 278–282, 287 |doi=10.17613/zbgk-yv52}}</ref>
+Old age was previously seen as a golden age in the Middle Ages<ref>{{Cite book |last=Burrow |first=J. A. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/610591940 |title=The ages of man : a study in medieval writing and thought |date=1986 |publisher=Clarendon Press |isbn=978-0-19-167098-5 |location=Oxford [Oxfordshire] |oclc=610591940}}</ref> Around the time of the Anglo-Saxons there was a shift towards more negative views of the elderly this led to more and more literature developing a Gerontophobic view<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Porck |first=Thijs |date=2020 |title=Gerontophobia in Early Medieval England: Anglo-Saxon Reflections on Old Age |url=https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:44429/ |journal=Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World |language=en-US |pages=219–235, 278–282, 287 |doi=10.17613/zbgk-yv52}}</ref>
 == Portrayal in the media[edit] ==
-Gerontophobia is heavily portrayed in the media starting as early as Anglo-saxon poetry<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Porck |first=Thijs |date=2020 |title=Gerontophobia in Early Medieval England: Anglo-Saxon Reflections on Old Age |url=https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:44429/ |journal=Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World |language=en-US |pages=219–235, 278–282, 287 |doi=10.17613/zbgk-yv52}}</ref> but is also found common literary classics such as Shakespeare's King Lear , Johnathan Swifts' Gulliver's Travels, and Jane Austen's Persuasion<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1979-05-01 |title=Aging and the Elderly: Humanistic Perspectives in Gerontology, Aging and Income: Programs and Projects for the Elderly, Normal Psychology of the Aging Process and Old and Cold: Hypothermia and Social Policy |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/24.3.258 |journal=Social Work |volume=24 |issue=3 |pages=258–258 |doi=10.1093/sw/24.3.258 |issn=0037-8046}}</ref> Gerontophobia can also be found in many TV shows and movies<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sorokin |first=Gennadii G. |date=2020-12-01 |title=The Manifestation of Gerontophobic Stereotypes in Russian Television |url=https://www.mediawatchjournal.in/the-manifestation-of-gerontophobic-stereotypes-in-russian-television/ |journal=Media Watch |volume=11 |issue=4 |doi=10.15655/mw/2020/v11i4/204638 |issn=2249-8818}}</ref>
+Gerontophobia is heavily portrayed in the media starting as early as Anglo-saxon poetry<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Porck |first=Thijs |date=2020 |title=Gerontophobia in Early Medieval England: Anglo-Saxon Reflections on Old Age |url=https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:44429/ |journal=Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World |language=en-US |pages=219–235, 278–282, 287 |doi=10.17613/zbgk-yv52}}</ref> but is also found in common literary classics such as Shakespeare's King Lear, Johnathan Swifts' Gulliver's Travels, and Jane Austen's Persuasion<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1979-05-01 |title=Aging and the Elderly: Humanistic Perspectives in Gerontology, Aging and Income: Programs and Projects for the Elderly, Normal Psychology of the Aging Process and Old and Cold: Hypothermia and Social Policy |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/24.3.258 |journal=Social Work |volume=24 |issue=3 |pages=258–258 |doi=10.1093/sw/24.3.258 |issn=0037-8046}}</ref> Gerontophobia can also be found in many TV shows and movies<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sorokin |first=Gennadii G. |date=2020-12-01 |title=The Manifestation of Gerontophobic Stereotypes in Russian Television |url=https://www.mediawatchjournal.in/the-manifestation-of-gerontophobic-stereotypes-in-russian-television/ |journal=Media Watch |volume=11 |issue=4 |doi=10.15655/mw/2020/v11i4/204638 |issn=2249-8818}}</ref>
 == Treatments for Gerontophobia[edit] ==
-Treatment for Gerontophobia can be better education and exposure and insight therapy<ref>{{Cite journal |last=BUNZEL |first=JOSEPH H. |date=February 1973 |title=Recognition, Relevance and Deactivation of Gerontophobia: Theoretical Essay |url=https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-5415.1973.tb01222.x |journal=Journal of the American Geriatrics Society |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=77–80 |doi=10.1111/j.1532-5415.1973.tb01222.x |issn=0002-8614}}</ref>
+Treatment for Gerontophobia can include better education about elderly and aging as well as an increase in exposure and insight therapy<ref>{{Cite journal |last=BUNZEL |first=JOSEPH H. |date=February 1973 |title=Recognition, Relevance and Deactivation of Gerontophobia: Theoretical Essay |url=https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-5415.1973.tb01222.x |journal=Journal of the American Geriatrics Society |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=77–80 |doi=10.1111/j.1532-5415.1973.tb01222.x |issn=0002-8614}}</ref>
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