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The term "ageism" is also used to describe the oppression of younger people by older people. An example is a 1976 pamphlet published by [[Youth Liberation of Ann Arbor]], MI.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Shelley Ettinger |title=The Bottom Rung |journal=FPS: A Magazine of Young People's Liberation |date=September 1976 |issue=54 (Growing Up Gay) |page=8 |url=http://bcrw.barnard.edu/archive/lesbian/Growing_Up_Gay.pdf |publisher=Youth Liberation Press |location=Ann Arbor, MI |access-date=16 January 2022 |archive-date=16 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240816163229/http://bcrw.barnard.edu/archive/lesbian/Growing_Up_Gay.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> In the UK, at a meeting of the Bracknell Forest Council in June 1983, councillor Richard Thomas pointed out that age discrimination works against younger and older people.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Techera |first=Philip |date=13 January 2022 |title=NURS 3325 Module 1 Discussion Ageism |url=https://nursingpaperslayers.com/nurs-3325-module-1-discussion-ageism/ |access-date=29 September 2022 |website=NursingPaperSlayers |language=en-US |archive-date=29 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929005424/https://nursingpaperslayers.com/nurs-3325-module-1-discussion-ageism/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> It has also been used regarding [[prejudice]] and discrimination, especially against adolescents and children, such as denying them certain rights and privileges usually reserved for adults. These include the right to vote, run for political office, refuse medical treatment, and sign contracts.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://freechild.org/discrimination-against-youth-voice/|title=Discrimination Against Youth Voice|date=7 January 2016|website=freechild.org|access-date=1 May 2018|archive-date=26 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180626040727/https://freechild.org/discrimination-against-youth-voice/|url-status=dead}}</ref> This definition of ageism can also include ignoring the ideas and contributions of adolescents and children because they are considered "too young" or assuming that their behavior is stereotypical of their younger age. Ageism against the young also includes penalties, burdens, or requirements imposed exclusively (or to a greater degree) on young people than on older people, such as age-based military conscription.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hasbrouck |first1=Edward |title=Youth Liberation and Military Conscription |journal=Peace Chronicle |date=Summer 2021 |url=https://www.peacejusticestudies.org/chronicle/youth-liberation-and-military-conscription/ |publisher=Peace & Justice Studies Assoc. |access-date=16 January 2022 |archive-date=16 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240816163238/https://www.peacejusticestudies.org/chronicle/youth-liberation-and-military-conscription/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
The term "ageism" is also used to describe the oppression of younger people by older people. An example is a 1976 pamphlet published by [[Youth Liberation of Ann Arbor]], MI.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Shelley Ettinger |title=The Bottom Rung |journal=FPS: A Magazine of Young People's Liberation |date=September 1976 |issue=54 (Growing Up Gay) |page=8 |url=http://bcrw.barnard.edu/archive/lesbian/Growing_Up_Gay.pdf |publisher=Youth Liberation Press |location=Ann Arbor, MI |access-date=16 January 2022 |archive-date=16 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240816163229/http://bcrw.barnard.edu/archive/lesbian/Growing_Up_Gay.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> In the UK, at a meeting of the Bracknell Forest Council in June 1983, councillor Richard Thomas pointed out that age discrimination works against younger and older people.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Techera |first=Philip |date=13 January 2022 |title=NURS 3325 Module 1 Discussion Ageism |url=https://nursingpaperslayers.com/nurs-3325-module-1-discussion-ageism/ |access-date=29 September 2022 |website=NursingPaperSlayers |language=en-US |archive-date=29 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929005424/https://nursingpaperslayers.com/nurs-3325-module-1-discussion-ageism/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> It has also been used regarding [[prejudice]] and discrimination, especially against adolescents and children, such as denying them certain rights and privileges usually reserved for adults. These include the right to vote, run for political office, refuse medical treatment, and sign contracts.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://freechild.org/discrimination-against-youth-voice/|title=Discrimination Against Youth Voice|date=7 January 2016|website=freechild.org|access-date=1 May 2018|archive-date=26 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180626040727/https://freechild.org/discrimination-against-youth-voice/|url-status=dead}}</ref> This definition of ageism can also include ignoring the ideas and contributions of adolescents and children because they are considered "too young" or assuming that their behavior is stereotypical of their younger age. Ageism against the young also includes penalties, burdens, or requirements imposed exclusively (or to a greater degree) on young people than on older people, such as age-based military conscription.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hasbrouck |first1=Edward |title=Youth Liberation and Military Conscription |journal=Peace Chronicle |date=Summer 2021 |url=https://www.peacejusticestudies.org/chronicle/youth-liberation-and-military-conscription/ |publisher=Peace & Justice Studies Assoc. |access-date=16 January 2022 |archive-date=16 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240816163238/https://www.peacejusticestudies.org/chronicle/youth-liberation-and-military-conscription/ |url-status=live }}</ref>


In a youth-oriented society, however, older people bear a large proportion of age bias and discrimination. Older people themselves can be deeply ageist, having internalized a lifetime of negative stereotypes about aging.<ref>[http://kingsreview.co.uk/magazine/theblog/2015/09/08/youthful-indiscretions/ "Youthful Indiscretions"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160127232145/http://kingsreview.co.uk/magazine/theblog/2015/09/08/youthful-indiscretions/ |date=27 January 2016 }}. kingsreview.co.uk. Retrieved on 11 September 2015.</ref> Ageism is often attributed to [[death anxiety|fears of death]] and disability; avoiding, segregating, and rejecting older people serves as [[coping mechanism]]s that allow people to avoid thinking about their mortality.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/20/why-ageism-never-gets-old|title=Why Ageism Never Gets Old|last=Friend|first=Tad|date=13 November 2017|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=28 November 2017|issn=0028-792X|archive-date=22 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322151442/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/20/why-ageism-never-gets-old|url-status=live}}</ref> The stigma and discrimination around the loss of physical or mental capacity is [[ableism]] (not ageism).
In a youth-oriented society, however, older people bear a large proportion of age bias and discrimination. Older people themselves can be deeply ageist, having internalized a lifetime of negative stereotypes about aging.<ref>[http://kingsreview.co.uk/magazine/theblog/2015/09/08/youthful-indiscretions/ "Youthful Indiscretions"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160127232145/http://kingsreview.co.uk/magazine/theblog/2015/09/08/youthful-indiscretions/ |date=27 January 2016 }}. kingsreview.co.uk. Retrieved on 11 September 2015.</ref> Ageism is often attributed to [[death anxiety|fears of death]] and disability; avoiding, segregating, and rejecting older people which serve as [[coping mechanism]]s that allow people to avoid thinking about their mortality.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/20/why-ageism-never-gets-old|title=Why Ageism Never Gets Old|last=Friend|first=Tad|date=13 November 2017|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=28 November 2017|issn=0028-792X|archive-date=22 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322151442/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/20/why-ageism-never-gets-old|url-status=live}}</ref> The stigma and discrimination around the loss of physical or mental capacity is [[ableism]] (not ageism).


==Classification==
==Classification==
===Distinction from other age-related bias===
===Distinction from other age-related bias===
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Ageism in common linguistic and age studies usually refers to negative discriminatory practices against old people, people in their middle years, teenagers, and children. There are several forms of age-related bias. [[Adultism]] is a predisposition towards adults, which is seen as bias against children, youth, and all young people who are not addressed or viewed as adults.<ref>Lauter And Howe (1971) ''Conspiracy of the Young.'' Meridian Press.</ref> This includes political candidacies, jobs, and cultural settings where the supposed greater vitality and physical beauty of youth are more appreciated than the supposed greater moral and intellectual rigor of adulthood. [[Adultcentrism]] is the exaggerated [[egocentrism]] of adults.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = De Martelaer | first1 = K. | last2 = De Knop | first2 = P. | last3 = Theeboom | first3 = M. | last4 = Van Heddegem | first4 = L. | year = 2000 | title = The UN Convention as a Basis for Elaborating Rights of Children in Sport | journal = Journal of Leisurability | volume = 27 | issue = 2| pages = 3–10 }}</ref> ''Adultocracy'' is the [[Convention (norm)|social convention]] which defines "maturity" and "immaturity", placing adults in a dominant position over [[youth|young people]], both theoretically and practically.<ref>(n.d.) [http://www.zmag.org/0009.htm Youth Liberation] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070213202808/http://www.zmag.org/0009.htm |date=13 February 2007 }} ''Z'' magazine.</ref> [[Gerontocracy]] is a form of oligarchical rule in which an entity is ruled by leaders significantly older than most of the adult population.<ref>Maddox, G. L. (1987). The Encyclopedia of aging (p. 284). New York: Springer Pub. Co.</ref> [[Chronocentrism]] is the belief that a certain state of humanity is superior to all previous and/or future times.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Lyon | first1 = P. | last2 = Pollard | first2 = D. | year = 1997 | title = Perceptions of the older employee: is anything really changing? | journal = Personnel Review | volume = 26 | issue = 4| pages = 245–257 [249] | doi=10.1108/00483489710172051}}</ref>
Ageism in common linguistic and age studies usually refers to negative discriminatory practices against old people, people in their middle years, teenagers, and children. There are several forms of age-related bias. [[Adultism]] is a predisposition towards adults, which is seen as bias against children, youth, and all young people who are not addressed or viewed as adults.<ref>Lauter And Howe (1971) ''Conspiracy of the Young.'' Meridian Press.</ref> This includes political candidacies, jobs, and cultural settings where the supposed greater vitality and physical beauty of youth are less appreciated than the supposed greater moral and intellectual rigor of adulthood. [[Adultcentrism]] is the exaggerated [[egocentrism]] of adults.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = De Martelaer | first1 = K. | last2 = De Knop | first2 = P. | last3 = Theeboom | first3 = M. | last4 = Van Heddegem | first4 = L. | year = 2000 | title = The UN Convention as a Basis for Elaborating Rights of Children in Sport | journal = Journal of Leisurability | volume = 27 | issue = 2| pages = 3–10 }}</ref> ''Adultocracy'' is the [[Convention (norm)|social convention]] which defines "maturity" and "immaturity", placing adults in a dominant position over [[youth|young people]], both theoretically and practically.<ref>(n.d.) [http://www.zmag.org/0009.htm Youth Liberation] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070213202808/http://www.zmag.org/0009.htm |date=13 February 2007 }} ''Z'' magazine.</ref> [[Gerontocracy]] is a form of oligarchical rule in which an entity is ruled by leaders significantly older than most of the adult population.<ref>Maddox, G. L. (1987). The Encyclopedia of aging (p. 284). New York: Springer Pub. Co.</ref> [[Chronocentrism]] is the belief that a certain state of humanity is superior to all previous and/or future times.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Lyon | first1 = P. | last2 = Pollard | first2 = D. | year = 1997 | title = Perceptions of the older employee: is anything really changing? | journal = Personnel Review | volume = 26 | issue = 4| pages = 245–257 [249] | doi=10.1108/00483489710172051}}</ref>


Based on a conceptual analysis of ageism, a new definition of ageism was introduced by Iversen, Larsen, and Solem in 2009. This definition constitutes the foundation for higher reliability and validity in future research about ageism and its complexity offers a new way of systemizing theories on ageism: "Ageism is defined as negative or positive stereotypes, prejudice and/or discrimination against (or to the advantage of) elderly people on the basis of their chronological age or on the basis of a perception of them as being 'old' or 'elderly'. Ageism can be implicit or explicit and can be expressed on a micro-, meso- or macro-level" (Iversen, Larsen and Solem, 2009).<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Iversen | first1 = T.N. | last2 = Larsen | first2 = L. | last3 = Solem | first3 = P.E. | year = 2009 | title = A conceptual analysis of ageism | journal = Nordic Psychology | volume = 61 | issue = 3| pages = 4–22 | doi=10.1027/1901-2276.61.3.4| s2cid = 145529534 }}</ref>
Based on a conceptual analysis of ageism, a new definition of ageism was introduced by Iversen, Larsen, and Solem in 2009. This definition constitutes the foundation for higher reliability and validity in future research about ageism and its complexity offers a new way of systemizing theories on ageism: "Ageism is defined as negative or positive stereotypes, prejudice and/or discrimination against (or to the advantage of) elderly people on the basis of their chronological age or on the basis of a perception of them as being 'old' or 'elderly'. Ageism can be implicit or explicit and can be expressed on a micro-, meso- or macro-level" (Iversen, Larsen and Solem, 2009).<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Iversen | first1 = T.N. | last2 = Larsen | first2 = L. | last3 = Solem | first3 = P.E. | year = 2009 | title = A conceptual analysis of ageism | journal = Nordic Psychology | volume = 61 | issue = 3| pages = 4–22 | doi=10.1027/1901-2276.61.3.4| s2cid = 145529534 }}</ref>
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===Stereotyping===
===Stereotyping===
Stereotyping is a tool of [[cognition]] that involves categorizing into groups and attributing characteristics to these groups. Stereotypes are necessary for processing huge volumes of information, which would otherwise overload a person and are generally accurate descriptors of group characteristics, though some stereotypes are inaccurate.<ref>{{cite book |title=Stereotype Accuracy: Toward Appreciating Group Differences |publisher=American Psychological Association |date=September 1995 |isbn=978-1-55798-307-7 |editor=[[Yueh-Ting Lee]] |editor2=Lee J. Jussim |editor3=Clark R. McCauley}}</ref> However, they can cause harm when the content of the stereotype is incorrect concerning most of the group or where a stereotype held too heavily overrides evidence which shows that an individual does not conform to it. For example, age-based stereotypes may cause one to draw very different conclusions when one sees an older and a younger adult with, for example, back pain or a limp.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=roscigno |first=vincent j. |date=2010 |title=ageism in the american workplace |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41960075 |journal=Contexts |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=16–21 |doi=10.1525/ctx.2010.9.1.16 |jstor=41960075 |issn=1536-5042 |via=JSTOR}}</ref> One might assume that following an accident, the younger person's condition is temporary and treatable, while the older person's condition is chronic and less susceptible to intervention. On average, this might be true, but many people of old age have accidents and recover quickly, and very young people (such as infants, toddlers, and small children) can become permanently disabled in the same situation. This assumption may have no consequence if one makes it while passing someone on the street. Still, if held by a health professional offering treatment or managers thinking about occupational health, such an assumption could inappropriately influence their actions and lead to age-related discrimination.
Stereotyping is a tool of [[cognition]] that involves categorizing into groups and attributing characteristics to these groups. Stereotypes are necessary for processing huge volumes of information, which would otherwise overload a person. They are generally accurate descriptors of group characteristics, though some stereotypes are inaccurate.<ref>{{cite book |title=Stereotype Accuracy: Toward Appreciating Group Differences |publisher=American Psychological Association |date=September 1995 |isbn=978-1-55798-307-7 |editor=[[Yueh-Ting Lee]] |editor2=Lee J. Jussim |editor3=Clark R. McCauley}}</ref> However, they can cause harm when the content of the stereotype is incorrect concerning most of the group or where a stereotype held too heavily overrides evidence which shows that an individual does not conform to it. For example, age-based stereotypes may cause one to draw very different conclusions when one sees an older and a younger adult with, for example, back pain or a limp.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=roscigno |first=vincent j. |date=2010 |title=ageism in the american workplace |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41960075 |journal=Contexts |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=16–21 |doi=10.1525/ctx.2010.9.1.16 |jstor=41960075 |issn=1536-5042 |via=JSTOR}}</ref> One might assume that following an accident, the younger person's condition is temporary and treatable, while the older person's condition is chronic and less susceptible to intervention. On average, this might be true, but many people of old age have accidents and recover quickly, and very young people (such as infants, toddlers, and small children) can become permanently disabled in the same situation. This assumption may have no consequence if one makes it while passing someone on the street. Still, if held by a health professional offering treatment or managers thinking about occupational health, such an assumption could inappropriately influence their actions and lead to age-related discrimination.


Managers have been accused, by [[Erdman B. Palmore|Erdman Palmore]], of stereotyping older workers as being resistant to change, uncreative, cautious, slow to make judgments, lower in physical capacity, uninterested in technological change, and hard to train.<ref>Palmore, E. B. (1999). Ageism: negative and positive (2nd ed., p. 108). New York: Springer Pub.</ref> Another example is when people are rude to children because of their high-pitched voices, even if they are kind and courteous. In 2009, the ''[[Journal of Management]]'' published a review of the research literature on age stereotypes in the workplace.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Posthuma | first1 = R. A. | last2 = Campion | first2 = M. A. | s2cid = 145727680 | year = 2009 | title = Age stereotyping in the workplace: Common stereotypes, moderators, and future research directions | journal = Journal of Management | volume = 35 | pages = 158–188 | doi=10.1177/0149206308318617}}</ref>
Managers have been accused, by [[Erdman B. Palmore|Erdman Palmore]], of stereotyping older workers as being resistant to change, uncreative, cautious, slow to make judgments, lower in physical capacity, uninterested in technological change, and hard to train.<ref>Palmore, E. B. (1999). Ageism: negative and positive (2nd ed., p. 108). New York: Springer Pub.</ref> Another example is when people are rude to children because of their high-pitched voices, even if they are kind and courteous. In 2009, the ''[[Journal of Management]]'' published a review of the research literature on age stereotypes in the workplace.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Posthuma | first1 = R. A. | last2 = Campion | first2 = M. A. | s2cid = 145727680 | year = 2009 | title = Age stereotyping in the workplace: Common stereotypes, moderators, and future research directions | journal = Journal of Management | volume = 35 | pages = 158–188 | doi=10.1177/0149206308318617}}</ref>
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On the other hand, when elders show greater independence and control in their lives, defying ageist presumptions, they are more likely to be healthier mentally and physically than other people of similar age.<ref name=":0" />
On the other hand, when elders show greater independence and control in their lives, defying ageist presumptions, they are more likely to be healthier mentally and physically than other people of similar age.<ref name=":0" />


Research indicates that older people are stereotyped as scoring lower on impulsivity, activism, antagonism and openness measures, while younger people are stereotyped as scoring higher. Research finds that these sterotypes are universal across cultures and are reasonably accurate (varying depending on the assessment method and the type of stereotype), though differences were consistently exaggerated.<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1037/a0029712 |pmid=23088227 |pmc=3514646 |title=Stereotypes of age differences in personality traits: Universal and accurate? |journal=Journal of Personality and Social Psychology |volume=103 |issue=6 |pages=1050–1066 |year=2012 |last1=Chan |first1=Wayne |last2=McCrae |first2=Robert R |last3=De Fruyt |first3=Filip |last4=Jussim |first4=Lee |last5=Löckenhoff |first5=Corinna E|author5-link= Corinna Löckenhoff |last6=De Bolle |first6=Marleen |last7=Costa |first7=Paul T |last8=Sutin |first8=Angelina R |last9=Realo |first9=Anu |last10=Allik |first10=Jüri |last11=Nakazato |first11=Katsuharu |last12=Shimonaka |first12=Yoshiko |last13=Hřebíčková |first13=Martina |last14=Graf |first14=Sylvie |last15=Yik |first15=Michelle |last16=Brunner-Sciarra |first16=Marina |last17=De Figueroa |first17=Nora Leibovich |last18=Schmidt |first18=Vanina |last19=Ahn |first19=Chang-kyu |last20=Ahn |first20=Hyun-nie |last21=Aguilar-Vafaie |first21=Maria E |last22=Siuta |first22=Jerzy |last23=Szmigielska |first23=Barbara |last24=Cain |first24=Thomas R |last25=Crawford |first25=Jarret T |last26=Mastor |first26=Khairul Anwar |last27=Rolland |first27=Jean-Pierre |last28=Nansubuga |first28=Florence |last29=Miramontez |first29=Daniel R |last30=Benet-Martínez |first30=Verónica |display-authors=29 }}</ref>
Research indicates that older people are stereotyped as scoring lower on impulsivity, activism, antagonism and openness measures, while younger people are stereotyped as scoring higher. Research finds that these stereotypes are universal across cultures and are reasonably accurate (varying depending on the assessment method and the type of stereotype), though differences were consistently exaggerated.<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1037/a0029712 |pmid=23088227 |pmc=3514646 |title=Stereotypes of age differences in personality traits: Universal and accurate? |journal=Journal of Personality and Social Psychology |volume=103 |issue=6 |pages=1050–1066 |year=2012 |last1=Chan |first1=Wayne |last2=McCrae |first2=Robert R |last3=De Fruyt |first3=Filip |last4=Jussim |first4=Lee |last5=Löckenhoff |first5=Corinna E|author5-link= Corinna Löckenhoff |last6=De Bolle |first6=Marleen |last7=Costa |first7=Paul T |last8=Sutin |first8=Angelina R |last9=Realo |first9=Anu |last10=Allik |first10=Jüri |last11=Nakazato |first11=Katsuharu |last12=Shimonaka |first12=Yoshiko |last13=Hřebíčková |first13=Martina |last14=Graf |first14=Sylvie |last15=Yik |first15=Michelle |last16=Brunner-Sciarra |first16=Marina |last17=De Figueroa |first17=Nora Leibovich |last18=Schmidt |first18=Vanina |last19=Ahn |first19=Chang-kyu |last20=Ahn |first20=Hyun-nie |last21=Aguilar-Vafaie |first21=Maria E |last22=Siuta |first22=Jerzy |last23=Szmigielska |first23=Barbara |last24=Cain |first24=Thomas R |last25=Crawford |first25=Jarret T |last26=Mastor |first26=Khairul Anwar |last27=Rolland |first27=Jean-Pierre |last28=Nansubuga |first28=Florence |last29=Miramontez |first29=Daniel R |last30=Benet-Martínez |first30=Verónica |display-authors=29 }}</ref>
As of 2020, there is still little research on the social status of elders across cultures.<ref name="Karlsson">{{cite journal |last1=Karlsson |first1=Carl-Johan |title=What Sweden's Covid failure tells us about ageism |journal=Knowable Magazine |date=7 July 2021 |doi-access=free |doi=10.1146/knowable-070621-1 |url=https://knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2021/what-swedens-covid-failure-tells-us-about-ageism |access-date=9 December 2021 |archive-date=25 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230125154341/https://knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2021/what-swedens-covid-failure-tells-us-about-ageism |url-status=live }}</ref>
As of 2020, there is still little research on the social status of elders across cultures.<ref name="Karlsson">{{cite journal |last1=Karlsson |first1=Carl-Johan |title=What Sweden's Covid failure tells us about ageism |journal=Knowable Magazine |date=7 July 2021 |doi-access=free |doi=10.1146/knowable-070621-1 |url=https://knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2021/what-swedens-covid-failure-tells-us-about-ageism |access-date=9 December 2021 |archive-date=25 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230125154341/https://knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2021/what-swedens-covid-failure-tells-us-about-ageism |url-status=live }}</ref>


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===Prejudice===
===Prejudice===
Ageist [[prejudice]] is often linked to the cognitive process of stereotyping. It can involve the expression of derogatory attitudes, which may lead to the use of discriminatory behavior. For example, in contetests, when older or younger contestants are rejected on the belief that they are poor performers, it could be the result of stereotyping. However, older people were also voted for in a game where it made sense to target the best performers. This can only be explained by a subconscious emotional reaction to older people. In this case, the prejudice took the form of distaste and a desire to exclude oneself from the company of older people.<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195385052.001.0001 |first1=Richard A. |last1=Posthuma |first2=María Fernanda |last2=Wagstaff |first3=Michael A. |last3=Campion |chapter=Age Stereotypes and Workplace Age Discrimination: A Framework for Future Research |pages=298–312 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OSBpAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA298 |editor1-first=Walter C. |editor1-last=Borman |editor2-first=Jerry W. |editor2-last=Hedge |title=The Oxford Handbook of Work and Aging |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-19-538505-2 |access-date=29 November 2017 |archive-date=16 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240816163231/https://books.google.com/books?id=OSBpAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA298#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
Ageist [[prejudice]] is often linked to the cognitive process of stereotyping. It can involve the expression of derogatory attitudes, which may lead to the use of discriminatory behavior. For example, in contests, when older or younger contestants are rejected on the belief that they are poor performers, it could be the result of stereotyping. However, older people were also voted for in a game where it made sense to target the best performers. This can only be explained by a subconscious emotional reaction to older people. In this case, the prejudice took the form of distaste and a desire to exclude oneself from the company of older people.<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195385052.001.0001 |first1=Richard A. |last1=Posthuma |first2=María Fernanda |last2=Wagstaff |first3=Michael A. |last3=Campion |chapter=Age Stereotypes and Workplace Age Discrimination: A Framework for Future Research |pages=298–312 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OSBpAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA298 |editor1-first=Walter C. |editor1-last=Borman |editor2-first=Jerry W. |editor2-last=Hedge |title=The Oxford Handbook of Work and Aging |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-19-538505-2 |access-date=29 November 2017 |archive-date=16 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240816163231/https://books.google.com/books?id=OSBpAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA298#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>


Stereotyping and prejudice against different groups in society do not take the same form. Age-based prejudice and stereotyping usually involve older or younger people being pitied, marginalized, or patronized. This is described as [[benevolent prejudice]] because the tendency to pity is linked to seeing older or younger people as friendly but incompetent. In the survey conducted by [[Age Concern]], 48% of participants said that people above 70 years of age were viewed as friendly,compared to 27% who said the same about under-30s). Meanwhile, only 26% believe people older than 70 are viewed as capable (with 41% saying the same about under-30s).<ref name="Loretto">{{cite journal | last1 = Loretto | first1 = W. | last2 = Duncan | first2 = C. | last3 = White | first3 = P.J. | year = 2000 | title = Ageism and employment: Controversies, ambiguities, and younger people's perceptions | journal = Ageing & Society | volume = 20 | issue = 3 | pages = 279–302 | doi = 10.1017/s0144686x00007741 | hdl = 20.500.11820/739c5d63-cf2c-4a79-a0c6-ed1664b4689f | s2cid = 54961733 | url = https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/files/11897989/DUNCAN_C_Ageism_and_Employment.pdf | access-date = 18 August 2019 | archive-date = 16 August 2024 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240816163235/https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/files/11897989/DUNCAN_C_Ageism_and_Employment.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref>
Stereotyping and prejudice against different groups in society do not take the same form. Age-based prejudice and stereotyping usually involve older or younger people being pitied, marginalized, or patronized. This is described as [[benevolent prejudice]] because the tendency to pity is linked to seeing older or younger people as friendly but incompetent. In the survey conducted by [[Age Concern]], 48% of participants said that people above 70 years of age were viewed as friendly, compared to 27% who said the same about people under the age of 30. Meanwhile, only 26% believe people older than 70 are viewed as capable (with 41% saying the same about under-30s).<ref name="Loretto">{{cite journal | last1 = Loretto | first1 = W. | last2 = Duncan | first2 = C. | last3 = White | first3 = P.J. | year = 2000 | title = Ageism and employment: Controversies, ambiguities, and younger people's perceptions | journal = Ageing & Society | volume = 20 | issue = 3 | pages = 279–302 | doi = 10.1017/s0144686x00007741 | hdl = 20.500.11820/739c5d63-cf2c-4a79-a0c6-ed1664b4689f | s2cid = 54961733 | url = https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/files/11897989/DUNCAN_C_Ageism_and_Employment.pdf | access-date = 18 August 2019 | archive-date = 16 August 2024 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240816163235/https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/files/11897989/DUNCAN_C_Ageism_and_Employment.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref>


===Digital ageism===
===Digital ageism===
{{See also|Digital literacy}}
{{See also|Digital literacy}}
Digital ageism refers to the prejudices faced by older adults in the digital world. A few examples of the subtle ways in which digital ageism operates in cultural representations, research, and everyday life: Generational segregation naturalizes youth as digitally adept and the old as digital dunces. There is no empirical evidence for a digital divide between older and younger people. It is more accurate to say there is a digital spectrum.<ref>{{Cite journal |author=Lenhart, A. |author2=Horrigan, J.B.|date=2003|title=Re-visualizing the digital divide as a digital spectrum|journal=IT & Society|volume=1 |issue=5|pages=23–39}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{cite journal |doi=10.15847/obsOBS612012513 |url=http://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/article/view/513 |first1=Eugène |last1=Loos |title=Senior citizens: Digital immigrants in their own country? |journal=Observatorio |volume=6 |issue=1 |year=2012 |pages=1–23 |doi-broken-date=13 September 2024 |access-date=29 November 2017 |archive-date=16 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240816163244/https://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/article/view/513 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>Loos, E. F., Haddon, L., & Mante-Meijer, E. A. (Eds.) (2012). ''Generational Use of New Media.'' Farnham: Ashgate.{{page needed|date=November 2017}}</ref> Older adults' experiences are often excluded from research agendas on digital media and ageism is often a factor in areas such as mass communication studies. For example, in a media [[diffusionist]] perspective,<ref>Rogers, E. (1995). Diffusion of Innovations. California: Stanford University Press.</ref> the practices of seniors are depicted as either negligible or lagging, and the equation of diffusion with individual ownership can hide practical 'workarounds' such as cell phone sharing or missed calls used by older couples on fixed incomes.<ref>Sawchuk, K. & Crow, B. (2012). Seniors, Cell Phones, and Tactical Restriction, in Phillip Vannini et al. (eds.), technologies of Mobility in the Americas, (157–174). New York: Peter Lang Publishing.</ref><ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.21018/rjcpr.2013.3.196 |title=Older People and Mobile Communication in Two European Contexts |journal=Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations |volume=15 |issue=3 |pages=83–98 |year=2016 |last1=Fernández-Ardèvol |first1=Mireia |last2=Ivan |first2=Loredana |doi-access=free }}</ref>
Digital ageism refers to the prejudices faced by older adults in the digital world. An example of the subtle ways in which digital ageism operates in cultural representations, research, and everyday life could be how generational segregation naturalizes youth as digitally adept and the old as digital dunces. There is no empirical evidence for a digital divide between older and younger people. It is more accurate to say there is a digital spectrum.<ref>{{Cite journal |author=Lenhart, A. |author2=Horrigan, J.B.|date=2003|title=Re-visualizing the digital divide as a digital spectrum|journal=IT & Society|volume=1 |issue=5|pages=23–39}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{cite journal |doi=10.15847/obsOBS612012513 |url=http://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/article/view/513 |first1=Eugène |last1=Loos |title=Senior citizens: Digital immigrants in their own country? |journal=Observatorio |volume=6 |issue=1 |year=2012 |pages=1–23 |doi-broken-date=13 September 2024 |access-date=29 November 2017 |archive-date=16 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240816163244/https://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/article/view/513 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>Loos, E. F., Haddon, L., & Mante-Meijer, E. A. (Eds.) (2012). ''Generational Use of New Media.'' Farnham: Ashgate.{{page needed|date=November 2017}}</ref> The experiences of older adults are often excluded from research agendas on digital media and ageism is often a factor in areas such as mass communication studies. For example, in a media [[diffusionist]] perspective,<ref>Rogers, E. (1995). Diffusion of Innovations. California: Stanford University Press.</ref> the practices of seniors are depicted as either negligible or lagging, and the equation of diffusion with individual ownership can hide practical 'workarounds' such as cell phone sharing or missed calls used by older couples on fixed incomes.<ref>Sawchuk, K. & Crow, B. (2012). Seniors, Cell Phones, and Tactical Restriction, in Phillip Vannini et al. (eds.), technologies of Mobility in the Americas, (157–174). New York: Peter Lang Publishing.</ref><ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.21018/rjcpr.2013.3.196 |title=Older People and Mobile Communication in Two European Contexts |journal=Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations |volume=15 |issue=3 |pages=83–98 |year=2016 |last1=Fernández-Ardèvol |first1=Mireia |last2=Ivan |first2=Loredana |doi-access=free }}</ref>


===Ageism in statistics===
===Ageism in statistics===
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Historically, younger men discriminated against younger female workers because they expected them, as young women of childbearing years, to permanently or periodically leave the workforce to have children.<ref>{{cite journal |first1=Edmund S. |last1=Phelps |date=September 1972 |title=The Statistical Theory of Racism and Sexism |journal=The American Economic Review |volume=62 |issue=4 |pages=659–61 |jstor=1806107 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/4728049}}</ref> However, midlife female workers may also experience discrimination based on their appearance<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1016/j.scaman.2013.07.002 |title=Women managers, careers and gendered ageism |journal=Scandinavian Journal of Management |volume=30 |issue=2 |pages=175–85 |year=2014 |last1=Jyrkinen |first1=Marjut |hdl=10138/159757 |hdl-access=free}}</ref> and may feel less visible and undervalued<ref name=":7">{{cite journal |doi=10.1017/S0144686X07007003 |title=Visible and invisible ageing: Beauty work as a response to ageism |journal=Ageing and Society |volume=28 |issue=5 |pages=653–74 |year=2008 |last1=Clarke |first1=Laura Hurd |last2=Griffin |first2=Meridith |s2cid=145683403 }}</ref> in a culture where the emphasis is on maintaining an approved standard of beauty, e.g. "thin, pretty, White, and young".<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1080/08952841.2015.1125698 |pmid=27471885 |title=There's a cream for that: A textual analysis of beauty and body-related advertisements aimed at middle-aged women |journal=Journal of Women & Aging |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=185–97 |year=2016 |last1=Del Rosso |first1=Teri |s2cid=32486881}}</ref> However, the same standard could have no effect on male colleagues of the same age.<ref name=":7" />
Historically, younger men discriminated against younger female workers because they expected them, as young women of childbearing years, to permanently or periodically leave the workforce to have children.<ref>{{cite journal |first1=Edmund S. |last1=Phelps |date=September 1972 |title=The Statistical Theory of Racism and Sexism |journal=The American Economic Review |volume=62 |issue=4 |pages=659–61 |jstor=1806107 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/4728049}}</ref> However, midlife female workers may also experience discrimination based on their appearance<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1016/j.scaman.2013.07.002 |title=Women managers, careers and gendered ageism |journal=Scandinavian Journal of Management |volume=30 |issue=2 |pages=175–85 |year=2014 |last1=Jyrkinen |first1=Marjut |hdl=10138/159757 |hdl-access=free}}</ref> and may feel less visible and undervalued<ref name=":7">{{cite journal |doi=10.1017/S0144686X07007003 |title=Visible and invisible ageing: Beauty work as a response to ageism |journal=Ageing and Society |volume=28 |issue=5 |pages=653–74 |year=2008 |last1=Clarke |first1=Laura Hurd |last2=Griffin |first2=Meridith |s2cid=145683403 }}</ref> in a culture where the emphasis is on maintaining an approved standard of beauty, e.g. "thin, pretty, White, and young".<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1080/08952841.2015.1125698 |pmid=27471885 |title=There's a cream for that: A textual analysis of beauty and body-related advertisements aimed at middle-aged women |journal=Journal of Women & Aging |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=185–97 |year=2016 |last1=Del Rosso |first1=Teri |s2cid=32486881}}</ref> However, the same standard could have no effect on male colleagues of the same age.<ref name=":7" />


Older people face workplace discrimination in the form of stereotypes, such as the inability to use technology as well as lower productivity.<ref name="Inaction">{{Cite journal |last=Raynor |first=Barbara |date=2015 |title=Ageism In Action? Ageism Inaction! |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26556137 |journal=Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging |volume=39 |issue=3 |pages=58–63 |jstor=26556137 |issn=0738-7806}}</ref> When applying for positions that have strong impacts, attributed stereotypes raise criticism toward their ability to function properly and efficiently.<ref name="Inaction" /> This age category of workers is often ignored and considered unable to make contributions; in some cases they are also given unfavorable tasks that wouldn't be assigned to anyone based on their old age.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=roscigno |first=vincent j. |date=2010 |title=ageism in the american workplace |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41960075 |journal=Contexts |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=16–21 |doi=10.1525/ctx.2010.9.1.16 |jstor=41960075 |issn=1536-5042}}</ref> Faced with discrimination in the workplace, the older generation is led to retirement around the age of 65.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Achenbaum |first=W. Andrew |date=2015 |title=A History of Ageism Since 1969 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26556123 |journal=Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging |volume=39 |issue=3 |pages=10–16 |jstor=26556123 |issn=0738-7806}}</ref>
Older people face workplace discrimination in the form of stereotypes, such as the inability to use technology and lower productivity.<ref name="Inaction">{{Cite journal |last=Raynor |first=Barbara |date=2015 |title=Ageism In Action? Ageism Inaction! |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26556137 |journal=Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging |volume=39 |issue=3 |pages=58–63 |jstor=26556137 |issn=0738-7806}}</ref> When applying for positions that have strong impacts, attributed stereotypes raise criticism toward their ability to function properly and efficiently.<ref name="Inaction" /> This age category of workers is often ignored and considered unable to make contributions; in some cases they are also given unfavorable tasks that wouldn't be assigned to anyone based on their old age.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=roscigno |first=vincent j. |date=2010 |title=ageism in the american workplace |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41960075 |journal=Contexts |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=16–21 |doi=10.1525/ctx.2010.9.1.16 |jstor=41960075 |issn=1536-5042}}</ref> Faced with discrimination in the workplace, the older generation is led to retirement around the age of 65.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Achenbaum |first=W. Andrew |date=2015 |title=A History of Ageism Since 1969 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26556123 |journal=Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging |volume=39 |issue=3 |pages=10–16 |jstor=26556123 |issn=0738-7806}}</ref>


Many countries have a [[Retirement age#Retirement age by country and region|retirement age]].
Many countries have a [[Retirement age#Retirement age by country and region|retirement age]].
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When a woman is told she is old, she can start to believe that she is. A woman can start acting as if she is older than she believes because she internalizes what other people say and think about her.<ref>{{Cite book|title = The Social World of Old Women: Management of Self-Identity|last = Matthews|first = Sarah H.|publisher = Sage Publication|year = 1979|isbn = 978-0-8039-1225-0|location = Beverly Hills, CA|pages = [https://archive.org/details/socialworldofold00matt/page/166 166]|url = https://archive.org/details/socialworldofold00matt/page/166}}</ref>
When a woman is told she is old, she can start to believe that she is. A woman can start acting as if she is older than she believes because she internalizes what other people say and think about her.<ref>{{Cite book|title = The Social World of Old Women: Management of Self-Identity|last = Matthews|first = Sarah H.|publisher = Sage Publication|year = 1979|isbn = 978-0-8039-1225-0|location = Beverly Hills, CA|pages = [https://archive.org/details/socialworldofold00matt/page/166 166]|url = https://archive.org/details/socialworldofold00matt/page/166}}</ref>
In film, the female body is depicted in different states of dress and portrayed differently depending on the age of the actress. Their clothing is used as an identity marker of the character. Young women are put into revealing and sexy costumes whereas older women often play the part of a mother or grandmother clad in a bonnet or apron.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|title = Aging Bodies:The Aging Female Body|last = Markson|first = Elizabeth|publisher = Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.|year = 2003|isbn = 978-0-7591-0236-1|location = Lanham, Maryland|pages = 78, 79, 80–83}}</ref> Aside from no longer representing the ideal female model, post-menopausal women are stereotyped as mentally unstable. "They become quarrelsome, vexatious and overbearing, petty and stingy; that is to say they exhibit typically sadistic and anal-erotic traits that they did not possess earlier (Freud 1958,323–24)."<ref name=":3" />
In film, the female body is depicted in different states of dress and portrayed differently depending on the age of the actress. Their clothing is used as an identity marker of the character. Young women are put into revealing and sexy costumes whereas older women often play the part of a mother or grandmother clad in a bonnet or apron.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|title = Aging Bodies:The Aging Female Body|last = Markson|first = Elizabeth|publisher = Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.|year = 2003|isbn = 978-0-7591-0236-1|location = Lanham, Maryland|pages = 78, 79, 80–83}}</ref> Aside from no longer representing the ideal female model, post-menopausal women are stereotyped as mentally unstable. "They become quarrelsome, vexatious and overbearing, petty and stingy; that is to say they exhibit typically sadistic and anal-erotic traits that they did not possess earlier" (Freud 1958,323–24).<ref name=":3" />


===Healthcare===
===Healthcare===
There is considerable evidence of discrimination against the elderly in health care.<ref>[http://www.agediscrimination.info/News/Pages/ItemPage.aspx?Item=553 Complaints soar as 'age discrimination within NHS' leaves elderly neglected] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120522093326/http://www.agediscrimination.info/News/Pages/ItemPage.aspx?Item=553 |date=22 May 2012 }}. Agediscrimination.info (9 November 2011). Retrieved on 11 April 2012.</ref><ref>[http://www.agediscrimination.info/News/Pages/ItemPage.aspx?Item=343 Poor treatment of older people in the NHS is an attitude problem]. Agediscrimination.info (15 February 2011). Retrieved on 11 April 2012.</ref><ref>[http://www.agediscrimination.info/News/Pages/ItemPage.aspx?Item=364 The Department of Health says there is no place for age discrimination in the NHS, but a new report shows the middle-aged 'miss out' on life-saving cancer surgery]. Agediscrimination.info (18 March 2011). Retrieved on 11 April 2012.</ref> This is particularly true for aspects of the physician-patient interaction, such as screening procedures, information exchanges, and treatment decisions. In the patient-physician interaction, physicians and other healthcare providers may hold attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours that are associated with ageism against older patients. Studies have found that some physicians do not seem to show any care or concern toward treating the medical problems of older people. Then, when interacting with these older patients on the job, the doctors sometimes view them with disgust and describe them in negative ways, such as "depressing" or "crazy".<ref name="Nelson">{{cite journal | last1 = Nelson | first1 = T. D. | s2cid = 10632570 | year = 2005 | title = Ageism: Prejudice against our feared future self | journal = Journal of Social Issues | volume = 61 | issue = 2| pages = 207–221 | doi=10.1111/j.1540-4560.2005.00402.x}}</ref> For screening procedures, elderly people are less likely than younger people to be screened for cancers and, due to the lack of this preventive measure, less likely to be diagnosed at early stages of their conditions.<ref name="Robb">{{cite journal | last1 = Robb | first1 = C. | last2 = Hongbin | first2 = C. | last3 = Haley | first3 = W. E. | year = 2002 | title = Ageism in mental health and health care: A critical review | journal = Journal of Clinical Geropsychology | volume = 8 | issue = 1| pages = 1–12 | doi = 10.1023/A:1013013322947 | s2cid = 71024173 }}</ref>
There is considerable evidence of discrimination against the elderly in health care.<ref>[http://www.agediscrimination.info/News/Pages/ItemPage.aspx?Item=553 Complaints soar as 'age discrimination within NHS' leaves elderly neglected] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120522093326/http://www.agediscrimination.info/News/Pages/ItemPage.aspx?Item=553 |date=22 May 2012 }}. Agediscrimination.info (9 November 2011). Retrieved on 11 April 2012.</ref><ref>[http://www.agediscrimination.info/News/Pages/ItemPage.aspx?Item=343 Poor treatment of older people in the NHS is an attitude problem]. Agediscrimination.info (15 February 2011). Retrieved on 11 April 2012.</ref><ref>[http://www.agediscrimination.info/News/Pages/ItemPage.aspx?Item=364 The Department of Health says there is no place for age discrimination in the NHS, but a new report shows the middle-aged 'miss out' on life-saving cancer surgery]. Agediscrimination.info (18 March 2011). Retrieved on 11 April 2012.</ref> This is particularly true for aspects of the physician-patient interaction, such as screening procedures, information exchanges, and treatment decisions. In the patient-physician interaction, physicians and other healthcare providers may hold attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that are associated with ageism against older patients. Studies have found that some physicians do not seem to show any care or concern toward treating the medical problems of older people. Then, when interacting with these older patients on the job, the doctors sometimes view them with disgust and describe them in negative ways, such as "depressing" or "crazy".<ref name="Nelson">{{cite journal | last1 = Nelson | first1 = T. D. | s2cid = 10632570 | year = 2005 | title = Ageism: Prejudice against our feared future self | journal = Journal of Social Issues | volume = 61 | issue = 2| pages = 207–221 | doi=10.1111/j.1540-4560.2005.00402.x}}</ref> For screening procedures, elderly people are less likely than younger people to be screened for cancers and, due to the lack of this preventive measure, less likely to be diagnosed at early stages of their conditions.<ref name="Robb">{{cite journal | last1 = Robb | first1 = C. | last2 = Hongbin | first2 = C. | last3 = Haley | first3 = W. E. | year = 2002 | title = Ageism in mental health and health care: A critical review | journal = Journal of Clinical Geropsychology | volume = 8 | issue = 1| pages = 1–12 | doi = 10.1023/A:1013013322947 | s2cid = 71024173 }}</ref>


After being diagnosed with a disease that may be potentially curable, older people are further discriminated against. Though there may be surgeries or operations with high survival rates that might cure their condition, older patients are less likely than younger patients to receive all the necessary treatments. For example, health professionals pursue less aggressive treatment options in older patients,<ref>{{Cite book|title = Learning to be old: Gender, culture, and aging |edition=2nd |last = Cruikshank|first = Margaret|publisher = Rowman & Littlefield|year = 2009|location = Lanham, MD}}</ref> and fewer adults are enrolled in tests of new prescription drugs.<ref>{{Cite journal|title = Disparate inclusion of older adults in clinical trials: Priorities and opportunities for policy and practice change|last = Herrera|first = Angelica P.|date = 2010|journal = American Journal of Public Health|doi = 10.2105/ajph.2009.162982 |pmid = 20147682|volume=100 | issue=Suppl 1 |pages=S105–S112 |pmc=2837461}}</ref> It has been posited that this is because doctors fear their older patients are not physically strong enough to tolerate the curative treatments, and are more likely to have complications during surgery that may end in death.
After being diagnosed with a disease that may be potentially curable, older people are further discriminated against. Though there may be surgeries or operations with high survival rates that might cure their condition, older patients are less likely than younger patients to receive all the necessary treatments. For example, health professionals pursue less aggressive treatment options in older patients,<ref>{{Cite book|title = Learning to be old: Gender, culture, and aging |edition=2nd |last = Cruikshank|first = Margaret|publisher = Rowman & Littlefield|year = 2009|location = Lanham, MD}}</ref> and fewer adults are enrolled in tests of new prescription drugs.<ref>{{Cite journal|title = Disparate inclusion of older adults in clinical trials: Priorities and opportunities for policy and practice change|last = Herrera|first = Angelica P.|date = 2010|journal = American Journal of Public Health|doi = 10.2105/ajph.2009.162982 |pmid = 20147682|volume=100 | issue=Suppl 1 |pages=S105–S112 |pmc=2837461}}</ref> It has been posited that this is because doctors fear their older patients are not physically strong enough to tolerate the curative treatments, and are more likely to have complications during surgery that may end in death.

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Robert N. Butler, founding director of the National Institute on Aging who coined the term "ageism"

Ageism[1][2][3] is a bias against individuals and groups based on their age, which may take the form of discrimination at all levels against such individuals and groups, up to and including victimization and bullying. The term was coined in 1969 by Robert Neil Butler to describe discrimination against the elderly, patterned on the terminology of sexism and racism.[4] Butler defined ageism as a combination of three connected elements: negative attitudes towards old age and the ageing process, discriminatory practices against older people, and institutional practices and policies that perpetuate stereotypes about elderly people.[5][6]

The term "ageism" is also used to describe the oppression of younger people by older people. An example is a 1976 pamphlet published by Youth Liberation of Ann Arbor, MI.[7] In the UK, at a meeting of the Bracknell Forest Council in June 1983, councillor Richard Thomas pointed out that age discrimination works against younger and older people.[8] It has also been used regarding prejudice and discrimination, especially against adolescents and children, such as denying them certain rights and privileges usually reserved for adults. These include the right to vote, run for political office, refuse medical treatment, and sign contracts.[9] This definition of ageism can also include ignoring the ideas and contributions of adolescents and children because they are considered "too young" or assuming that their behavior is stereotypical of their younger age. Ageism against the young also includes penalties, burdens, or requirements imposed exclusively (or to a greater degree) on young people than on older people, such as age-based military conscription.[10]

In a youth-oriented society, however, older people bear a large proportion of age bias and discrimination. Older people themselves can be deeply ageist, having internalized a lifetime of negative stereotypes about aging.[11] Ageism is often attributed to fears of death and disability; avoiding, segregating, and rejecting older people which serve as coping mechanisms that allow people to avoid thinking about their mortality.[12] The stigma and discrimination around the loss of physical or mental capacity is ableism (not ageism).

Classification

Ageism in common linguistic and age studies usually refers to negative discriminatory practices against old people, people in their middle years, teenagers, and children. There are several forms of age-related bias. Adultism is a predisposition towards adults, which is seen as bias against children, youth, and all young people who are not addressed or viewed as adults.[13] This includes political candidacies, jobs, and cultural settings where the supposed greater vitality and physical beauty of youth are less appreciated than the supposed greater moral and intellectual rigor of adulthood. Adultcentrism is the exaggerated egocentrism of adults.[14] Adultocracy is the social convention which defines "maturity" and "immaturity", placing adults in a dominant position over young people, both theoretically and practically.[15] Gerontocracy is a form of oligarchical rule in which an entity is ruled by leaders significantly older than most of the adult population.[16] Chronocentrism is the belief that a certain state of humanity is superior to all previous and/or future times.[17]

Based on a conceptual analysis of ageism, a new definition of ageism was introduced by Iversen, Larsen, and Solem in 2009. This definition constitutes the foundation for higher reliability and validity in future research about ageism and its complexity offers a new way of systemizing theories on ageism: "Ageism is defined as negative or positive stereotypes, prejudice and/or discrimination against (or to the advantage of) elderly people on the basis of their chronological age or on the basis of a perception of them as being 'old' or 'elderly'. Ageism can be implicit or explicit and can be expressed on a micro-, meso- or macro-level" (Iversen, Larsen and Solem, 2009).[18]

Other conditions of fear or aversion associated with age groups have their own names. Paedophobia is a fear of infants and children, ephebiphobia is the fear of youth[19] and is also referred to as an irrational fear of adolescents or a prejudice against teenagers,[20] and gerontophobia is a fear of elderly people.[21]

Implicit ageism

Implicit ageism refers to thoughts, feelings, and judgments that operate without conscious awareness and are automatically produced in everyday life.[22] These may be a mixture of positive and negative thoughts and feelings, but gerontologist Becca Levy reports that they "tend to be mostly negative".[23]

Stereotyping

Stereotyping is a tool of cognition that involves categorizing into groups and attributing characteristics to these groups. Stereotypes are necessary for processing huge volumes of information, which would otherwise overload a person. They are generally accurate descriptors of group characteristics, though some stereotypes are inaccurate.[24] However, they can cause harm when the content of the stereotype is incorrect concerning most of the group or where a stereotype held too heavily overrides evidence which shows that an individual does not conform to it. For example, age-based stereotypes may cause one to draw very different conclusions when one sees an older and a younger adult with, for example, back pain or a limp.[25] One might assume that following an accident, the younger person's condition is temporary and treatable, while the older person's condition is chronic and less susceptible to intervention. On average, this might be true, but many people of old age have accidents and recover quickly, and very young people (such as infants, toddlers, and small children) can become permanently disabled in the same situation. This assumption may have no consequence if one makes it while passing someone on the street. Still, if held by a health professional offering treatment or managers thinking about occupational health, such an assumption could inappropriately influence their actions and lead to age-related discrimination.

Managers have been accused, by Erdman Palmore, of stereotyping older workers as being resistant to change, uncreative, cautious, slow to make judgments, lower in physical capacity, uninterested in technological change, and hard to train.[26] Another example is when people are rude to children because of their high-pitched voices, even if they are kind and courteous. In 2009, the Journal of Management published a review of the research literature on age stereotypes in the workplace.[27]

Contrary to common and more obvious forms of stereotyping, such as racism and sexism, ageism is more resistant to change. For instance, if a child believes in an ageist idea against the elderly, fewer people correct them, and, as a result, individuals grow up believing in ageist ideas, even elders themselves.[28] In other words, ageism can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Ageist beliefs against the elderly are commonplace in today's society. For example, an older person who forgets something could be quick to call it a "senior moment", failing to realize the ageism of that statement. People also often utter ageist phrases such as "dirty old man" or "second childhood", and elders sometimes miss the ageist undertones.[28]

In North America, the gap in the scores of the young and old with normal hearing was double those of the deaf. It was five times wider than those of the Chinese participants. The results show that ageism undermines ability through its self-fulfilling nature.[28] The study was investigating the effect of the stereotype threat, a possible reason for memory deficits,[29] though the stereotype threat has experienced criticism.[30]

On the other hand, when elders show greater independence and control in their lives, defying ageist presumptions, they are more likely to be healthier mentally and physically than other people of similar age.[28]

Research indicates that older people are stereotyped as scoring lower on impulsivity, activism, antagonism and openness measures, while younger people are stereotyped as scoring higher. Research finds that these stereotypes are universal across cultures and are reasonably accurate (varying depending on the assessment method and the type of stereotype), though differences were consistently exaggerated.[31] As of 2020, there is still little research on the social status of elders across cultures.[6]

Ageism can also manifest itself in perceptions of how dateable one is, which has culminated in terms such as the sexpiration date, which indicates the age after which one is no longer sexually appealing.[32]

Prejudice

Ageist prejudice is often linked to the cognitive process of stereotyping. It can involve the expression of derogatory attitudes, which may lead to the use of discriminatory behavior. For example, in contests, when older or younger contestants are rejected on the belief that they are poor performers, it could be the result of stereotyping. However, older people were also voted for in a game where it made sense to target the best performers. This can only be explained by a subconscious emotional reaction to older people. In this case, the prejudice took the form of distaste and a desire to exclude oneself from the company of older people.[33]

Stereotyping and prejudice against different groups in society do not take the same form. Age-based prejudice and stereotyping usually involve older or younger people being pitied, marginalized, or patronized. This is described as benevolent prejudice because the tendency to pity is linked to seeing older or younger people as friendly but incompetent. In the survey conducted by Age Concern, 48% of participants said that people above 70 years of age were viewed as friendly, compared to 27% who said the same about people under the age of 30. Meanwhile, only 26% believe people older than 70 are viewed as capable (with 41% saying the same about under-30s).[34]

Digital ageism

Digital ageism refers to the prejudices faced by older adults in the digital world. An example of the subtle ways in which digital ageism operates in cultural representations, research, and everyday life could be how generational segregation naturalizes youth as digitally adept and the old as digital dunces. There is no empirical evidence for a digital divide between older and younger people. It is more accurate to say there is a digital spectrum.[35][36][37] The experiences of older adults are often excluded from research agendas on digital media and ageism is often a factor in areas such as mass communication studies. For example, in a media diffusionist perspective,[38] the practices of seniors are depicted as either negligible or lagging, and the equation of diffusion with individual ownership can hide practical 'workarounds' such as cell phone sharing or missed calls used by older couples on fixed incomes.[39][40]

Ageism in statistics

Ageism is also inadvertently embedded in the ways statistics are collected. For example, data collected based on large age categories (e.g., "60+") often places anyone over 60 into "the grey zone" which obscures differences.[41] The dependency ratio has been criticized by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights as being based on the ageist assumption that older people are always dependent on care from younger workers.[42]

Visual ageism

The term visual ageism was coined in 2018 by Loos and Ivan. They define visual ageism as "the social practice of visually underrepresenting older people or misrepresenting them in a prejudiced way".[43] This is likely due to the increase in third age rhetoric in the media, picturing older people as healthy and as potential consumers, enjoying life and living their "golden years". Media representations of older people have moved from misrepresentation (negative images)[44][45][46][47] to more positive depictions.[48][49][43] Today, visual ageism in the media tends to come wrapped in the guise of the positive attributes of third age representations of older people, while adults in their fourth age continue to be underrepresented. One possible explanation for this is that healthy third agers might prefer not to be associated with fourth agers, as they remind them too starkly of what lies ahead in their own near future. Although this discomfort or even fear about mortality is undeniably common, from a societal point of view this kind of (self)ageism is hurtful to fourth agers as a group and in a sense to third agers as well, as they risk becoming fourth agers themselves one day.[43]

Discrimination

Age discrimination is the result of actions taken to deny or limit opportunities to people based on age. These are usually actions taken as a result of one's ageist beliefs and attitudes. Age discrimination occurs on both a personal and institutional level.[50] On a personal level, an older person may be told that they are too old to engage in certain physical activities, like an informal game of basketball between friends and family. They may also be told (most common in today's Western society) that they are too old to date or to be sexually attractive to much younger people and to have a much younger partners, or encounter prejudices against age-differences in general, whether the relationship is sentimental/sexual or even platonic (this particular form of ageist bigotry and discrimination is even more relevant today or in recent times on social media).[a]

A 2006/2007 survey done by the Children's Rights Alliance for England and the National Children's Bureau asked 4,060 children and young people whether they have ever been treated unfairly based on various criteria (race, age, sex, sexual orientation, etc.). A total of 43% of British youth surveyed reported experiencing discrimination based on their age, far eclipsing other categories of discrimination like sex (27%), race (11%), or sexual orientation (6%).[65] Consistently, a study based on the European Social Survey found that whereas 35% of Europeans reported exposure to ageism, only 25% reported exposure to sexism and as few as 17% reported exposure to racism.[66]

Ageism has significant effects in two particular sectors: employment and health care. Age discrimination has contributed to disparities in health between men and women. Reducing ageism and sexism would promote improved doctor-patient relationships and reduce ageist stereotypes in the healthcare industry.[67]

Employment

The concept of ageism was originally developed to refer to prejudice and discrimination against older people and middle-aged people but has expanded to include children and teenagers.[34] Midlife workers, on average, make more than younger workers do in income, which reflects educational achievement and experience. The age-wage peak in the United States, according to Census data, is between 45 and 54 years of age. As people age, seniority is treated with respect, thereby lessening ageism.[68] Seniority-based compensation can result in job lock and decreasing job mobility with increasing age.[69]

Historically, younger men discriminated against younger female workers because they expected them, as young women of childbearing years, to permanently or periodically leave the workforce to have children.[70] However, midlife female workers may also experience discrimination based on their appearance[71] and may feel less visible and undervalued[72] in a culture where the emphasis is on maintaining an approved standard of beauty, e.g. "thin, pretty, White, and young".[73] However, the same standard could have no effect on male colleagues of the same age.[72]

Older people face workplace discrimination in the form of stereotypes, such as the inability to use technology and lower productivity.[74] When applying for positions that have strong impacts, attributed stereotypes raise criticism toward their ability to function properly and efficiently.[74] This age category of workers is often ignored and considered unable to make contributions; in some cases they are also given unfavorable tasks that wouldn't be assigned to anyone based on their old age.[75] Faced with discrimination in the workplace, the older generation is led to retirement around the age of 65.[76]

Many countries have a retirement age.

The United States federal government restricts age discrimination under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA). That law provides certain employment protections to workers who are over the age of 40, who work for an employer who has 20 or more employees. For protected workers, the ADEA prohibits discrimination at all levels of employment, from recruitment and hiring, through the employment relationship, and through decisions for layoffs or termination of the employment relationship. An age limit may only be legally specified for protected workers in the circumstance where age has been shown to be a "bona fide occupational qualification [BFOQ] reasonably necessary to the normal operation of the particular business" (see 29 U.S.C. § 623(f)(1)). In practice, BFOQs for age are limited to the obvious (hiring a young actor to play a young character in a movie) or when public safety is at stake (for example, in the case of age limits for pilots and bus drivers). The ADEA does not stop an employer from favoring an older employee over a younger one, even when the younger one is over 40 years old.[77]

In the UK, age discrimination against older people has been prohibited in employment since 2006.[78] Further refinements to anti-discrimination laws occurred in 2010.[79]

Infographic showing the process of filing an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint, with age discrimination being possible grounds for EEOC intervention

Age discrimination in hiring has been shown to exist in the United States. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's first complainants were female flight attendants complaining of (among other matters) age discrimination.[80] In 1968, the EEOC declared age restrictions on flight attendants' employment to be illegal sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.[81] However, Joanna Lahey, professor at The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M, found recently[when?] that firms are more than 40% more likely to interview a young adult job applicant than an older job applicant.[82] To fulfil job postings with youthful staff, companies turn to recruitment companies to meet their needs. Many sources place blame on recruitment practices as it is the one way that age discrimination can go incognito at the hands of others. Sofica (2012) states "A study run in Washington in 1999 shows that 84% of the recruitment agencies are discriminating compared to only 29% of the companies that do their own."[83] Dobson states that according to Weisbeck's (2017) research, "People have a natural bias to hire people like themselves" (p. 3).[84] Lahey (2008) also stated within her research "Since it is more difficult for workers to determine why they failed to receive an interview than it is for workers to determine why they have been fired, firms that wish to retain only a certain type of worker without being sued would prefer to discriminate in the hiring state rather than at any point of the employment process" (p. 31).[85] All states in the US prohibit youth under 14 from working with a handful of exceptions and prohibit youth under 18 from working in hazardous occupations. They are also paid a lower minimum wage and not allowed to work full-time.

In Europe, pervasive levels of age discrimination are found in Belgium, England, France, Spain, and Sweden. Job candidates revealing older age are found to get 39% (in Belgium) to 72% (in France) less job interview invitations compared to equal candidates revealing a younger age.[86][87][88][89][90][91][92] In addition, In a survey for the University of Kent, England, 29% of respondents stated that they had suffered from age discrimination. This is a higher proportion than for gender or racial discrimination. Dominic Abrams, a social psychology professor at the university, concluded that ageism is the most pervasive form of prejudice experienced in the UK population.[93] Discrimination is found to be heterogeneous by the activity older candidates undertook during their additional post-educational years. In Belgium, they are only discriminated if they have more years of inactivity or irrelevant employment.[86]

According to Robert M. McCann, an associate professor of management communication at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business, denigrating older workers, even if only subtly, can have an outsized negative impact on employee productivity and corporate profits.[94] For American corporations, age discrimination can lead to significant expenses. In Fiscal Year 2006, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received nearly 17,000 charges of age discrimination, resolving more than 14,000 and recovering $51.5 million in monetary benefits. Costs from lawsuit settlements and judgments can run into the millions, most notably with the $250 million paid by the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) under a settlement agreement in 2003.[95][96]

Hollywood

Ageism in Hollywood, specifically towards women, is profound, from the way youth is praised to the lack of jobs for older actresses. The way youth is praised reflects directly on the way older women are presented in the media. President and CEO of the American Association of Advertising Agencies, O. Burtch Drake, spoke in terms of older women's representation throughout the media stating "older women are not being portrayed at all; there is no imagery to worry about."[97] Women over 50 are not the center of attention and if an actress is older they are expected to act anything but their age.[98] The standards set for women in film are fixated upon youth, sexuality, and beauty. Movies that portray older women acting their own age seem exaggerated and unrealistic because it does not fit the norms associated with women in film and media.[98] As a result, older actresses face weaker employment opportunities.[99][100]

Because of the limited ages the film industry portrays and the lack of older actresses, society as a whole has a type of illiteracy about sexuality and those of old age. There is an almost inherent bias about what older women are capable of, what they do, and how they feel.[101] Amongst all ages of actresses there is the attempt to look youthful and fitting to the beauty standards by altering themselves physically, many times under the hands of plastic surgeons.[98] Women become frightful of how they would be seen if they have wrinkles, cellulite, or any other signifier of aging.[99] As women reach their 40s and 50s, the pressure to adhere to societal beauty norms seen amongst films and media intensifies in terms of new cosmetic procedures and products that will maintain a "forever youthful" look.[99] In terms of sexuality, older women are seen as unattractive, bitter, unhappy, and unsuccessful in films. With older women not being represented in the media and film industries, specifically in Hollywood, thoughts of underachievement, ugliness, and disgust crowd the thoughts of older women as they fail to meet beauty norms. This can cause depression, anxiety, and self-esteem issues in general.[99] "In one survey, women reported feeling more embarrassed about their age than by their masturbation practices or same-gender sexual encounters."[99]

When a woman is told she is old, she can start to believe that she is. A woman can start acting as if she is older than she believes because she internalizes what other people say and think about her.[102] In film, the female body is depicted in different states of dress and portrayed differently depending on the age of the actress. Their clothing is used as an identity marker of the character. Young women are put into revealing and sexy costumes whereas older women often play the part of a mother or grandmother clad in a bonnet or apron.[103] Aside from no longer representing the ideal female model, post-menopausal women are stereotyped as mentally unstable. "They become quarrelsome, vexatious and overbearing, petty and stingy; that is to say they exhibit typically sadistic and anal-erotic traits that they did not possess earlier" (Freud 1958,323–24).[103]

Healthcare

There is considerable evidence of discrimination against the elderly in health care.[104][105][106] This is particularly true for aspects of the physician-patient interaction, such as screening procedures, information exchanges, and treatment decisions. In the patient-physician interaction, physicians and other healthcare providers may hold attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that are associated with ageism against older patients. Studies have found that some physicians do not seem to show any care or concern toward treating the medical problems of older people. Then, when interacting with these older patients on the job, the doctors sometimes view them with disgust and describe them in negative ways, such as "depressing" or "crazy".[107] For screening procedures, elderly people are less likely than younger people to be screened for cancers and, due to the lack of this preventive measure, less likely to be diagnosed at early stages of their conditions.[108]

After being diagnosed with a disease that may be potentially curable, older people are further discriminated against. Though there may be surgeries or operations with high survival rates that might cure their condition, older patients are less likely than younger patients to receive all the necessary treatments. For example, health professionals pursue less aggressive treatment options in older patients,[109] and fewer adults are enrolled in tests of new prescription drugs.[110] It has been posited that this is because doctors fear their older patients are not physically strong enough to tolerate the curative treatments, and are more likely to have complications during surgery that may end in death.

Other research studies have been done with patients with heart disease, and, in these cases, the older patients were still less likely to receive further tests or treatments, independent of the severity of their health problems. Thus, the approach to the treatment of older people is concentrated on managing the disease rather than preventing or curing it. This is based on the stereotype that it is the natural process of aging for the quality of health to decrease, and, therefore, there is no point in attempting to prevent the inevitable decline of old age.[107][108]

Furthermore, caregivers further undermine the treatment of older patients by over-helping them, which may decrease independence and/or interfere with their autonomy,[111] and by making a generalized assumption and treating all elderly people as feeble.[28]

Differential medical treatment of elderly people can have significant effects on their health outcomes; a differential outcome which somehow escapes established protections.

In 2017, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in favor of Maria Ivone Carvalho Pinto de Sousa Morais, who had had an operation that was mishandled and rendered her unable to have sex. Portuguese judges had previously reduced damages to her in 2014, ruling then that the operation, which occurred when she was 50, had happened at "an age when sex is not as important as in younger years." The European Court of Human Rights rejected that decision, with the majority's ruling stating in part, "The question at issue here is not considerations of age or sex as such, but rather the assumption that sexuality is not as important for a 50-year-old woman and mother of two children as for someone of a younger age. That assumption reflects a traditional idea of female sexuality as being essentially linked to childbearing purposes and thus ignores its physical and psychological relevance for the self-fulfillment of women as people."[112]

"Half your age plus seven rule"

Although this relatively recent theory supposedly originated in the West is recognized as bigoted and ageist and without actual valid basis,[113][114][115][116][117] one "rule of thumb" to determine whether an age difference is "socially acceptable" holds that a person should never date someone whose age is less than half their own plus seven years.[118][119][120][121] According to this "rule", a 28-year-old would date no one younger than 21 (half of 28, plus 7) and a 50-year-old would date no one younger than 32 (half of 50, plus 7).

Although the provenance of the rule is unclear, it is sometimes said to have originated in France.[119] The rule appears in John Fox Jr.'s 1903 novel The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come,[122] in American newspapers in 1931 attributed to Maurice Chevalier,[123] and in The Autobiography of Malcolm X, attributed to Elijah Muhammad.[124]

The idea of the rule as a lower-bound limit reflects some contemporary redefinition. In most sources prior to the very modern era, it was not only largely heterosexual-specific and gender-specific, but was presented as a formula to calculate the ideal age of a female partner at the beginning of a relationship, instead of a lower limit. Frederick Locker-Lampson's Patchwork from 1879 states the opinion "A wife should be half the age of her husband with seven years added."[125] Max O'Rell's Her Royal Highness Woman from 1901 gives the rule in the format "A man should marry a woman half his age, plus seven."[126] A similar interpretation is also present in the 1951 play The Moon Is Blue by F. Hugh Herbert: "Haven't you ever heard that the girl is supposed to be half the man's age, plus seven?"[127]

A 2000 study found that the rule was fairly accurate at predicting the minimum age of a woman that a man would marry or date. However, the rule was not found to be predictive of the minimum age of a man that a woman would marry or date, nor (by reversing the formula) of the maximum age that either sex would marry or date.[118]

This rule implies that both individuals should be at least 14 years older than their age difference.[128]

Effects of and laws/regulations regarding ageism

Ageism has significant effects on the elderly and young people. These effects might be seen within different levels: person, selected company, whole economy.[129] The stereotypes and infantilization of older and younger people by patronizing language affects older and younger people's self-esteem and behaviors. After repeatedly hearing a stereotype that older or younger people are useless, older and younger people may begin to feel like dependent, non-contributing members of society. They may start to perceive themselves in terms of the looking-glass self—that is, in the same ways that others in society see them. Studies have also specifically shown that when older and younger people hear these stereotypes about their supposed incompetence and uselessness, they perform worse on measures of competence and memory.[130] These stereotypes then become self-fulfilling prophecies. According to Becca Levy's Stereotype embodiment theory, older and younger people might also engage in self-stereotypes, taking their culture's age stereotypes—to which they have been exposed over the life course—and directing them inward toward themselves. Then this behavior reinforces the present stereotypes and treatment of the elderly.[23][107]

Many overcome these stereotypes and live as they choose, but it can be difficult to avoid deeply ingrained prejudice, especially if one has been exposed to ageist views in childhood or adolescence.

Catholic Church

In 1970, Pope Paul VI ruled that Cardinals who had reached the age of 80 years could not be part of the election of a new Pope. He also declared that year that upon reaching their 80th birthday Cardinals would no longer be members of administrative departments and other permanent Vatican institutions. He further stated that year that Cardinals in charge of departments of the Roman Curia and other permanent central church institutions should resign voluntarily when they reach 75 years old, and that the Pope would decide whether to accept each resignation on an individual basis.[131]

COVID-19 pandemic

Ageism during the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 was primarily caused by the surfacing of data pointing the elderly as vulnerable groups.[132][133] A 2020 study published in The Journals of Gerontology found that the vulnerability of older adults was seen as a problem to be solved through forced and indefinite segregation or isolation, and such measures were widely seen as acceptable by society. Older adults were often blamed for the ensuing lockdowns and restrictions.[132] A 2021 study published in The Sociological Review characterized the treatment of elders amid the pandemic as "intergenerational discounting": "breakdown in reciprocal obligations of care, giving rise to accusations of hypocrisy, expressions of resentment and rage, and the description of the virus as the 'Boomer remover'." In particular, the study found that younger generations perceived the pandemic as comparable to climate change as a crisis, and saw the disproportionate effect of COVID-19 on older generations as "karmic" due to the latter's supposed failure in mitigating climate change.[133] The term "Boomer remover" trended on Twitter as a nickname for the disease, appearing in over 65,000 tweets by March 2020.[134]

Africa

Nigeria

In November 2011, the Nigerian House of Representatives considered a bill that would outlaw age discrimination in employment.[135] In September 2022, UN appointed independent human rights expert Claudia Mahler said that "as well as ageism and age-discrimination, even among Government officials, violence against older persons is an unspoken reality."[136]

Uganda

The Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023 prescribes life imprisonment for sex between two people of the same biological sex and the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality". The latter offense includes sex with persons older than seventy-five, as well as "serial offenders", same-sex rape, sex in a position of authority or procured by intimidation, sex with the disabled and mentally ill, and homosexual acts committed by a person with a previous conviction of homosexuality.Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023  – via Wikisource.

Americas

Canada

Section 15 (1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms states that "every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on ... age" (as well as other protected classes).[137]

In Canada, Article 718.2, clause (a)(i), of the Criminal Code defines as aggravating circumstances, among other situations, "evidence that the offense was motivated by ... age".[138][139]

Mandatory retirement was largely ended in Canada in December 2011,[140] but 74% of Canadians still consider age discrimination to be a problem.[141]

Retirement age for Canadian airline pilots is provided by each airline with some set to age 60, but changes to the Canadian Human Rights Act have restricted the retirement age set by the airlines.[142]

Colombia

Measures taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19 were especially strict on older people in Colombia. The government prohibited anyone over 70 years of age from leaving their house.[143] Amid public backlash, the restriction was taken to court and overturned.

United States

In the United States, each state has its own laws regarding age discrimination, and there are also federal laws.[144] In California, the Fair Employment and Housing Act forbids unlawful discrimination against persons age 40 and older. The FEHA is the principal California statute prohibiting employment discrimination, covering employers, labor organizations, employment agencies, apprenticeship programs and/or any person or entity who aids, abets, incites, compels, or coerces the doing of a discriminatory act. In addition to age, it prohibits employment discrimination based on race or color; religion; national origin or ancestry, disability, mental type or medical condition; marital status; sex or sexual orientation; and pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.[145] Although there are many protections for age-based discrimination against older workers (as shown above), there are less protections for younger workers.[citation needed]

The District of Columbia and twelve states (California, Florida, Iowa, Hawaii, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, and Vermont) define age as a specific motivation for hate crimes.[146][147]

The federal government restricts age discrimination under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA). That law provides certain employment protections to workers who are over the age of 40, who work for an employer who has twenty or more employees. For protected workers, the ADEA prohibits discrimination at all levels of employment, from recruitment and hiring, through the employment relationship, and through decisions for layoffs or termination of the employment relationship. An age limit may only be legally specified for protected workers in the circumstance where age has been shown to be a "bona fide occupational qualification [BFOQ] reasonably necessary to the normal operation of the particular business" (see 29 U.S.C. § 623(f)(1)). In practice, BFOQs for age are limited to the obvious (hiring a young actor to play a young character in a movie) or when public safety is at stake (for example, in the case of age limits for pilots and bus drivers). The ADEA does not stop an employer from favoring an older employee over a younger one, even when the younger one is over 40 years old.[77]

President Jimmy Carter signing legislation against mandatory retirement in 1978

Mandatory retirement due to age is generally unlawful in the United States, except in certain industries and occupations that are regulated by law, and are often part of the government (such as military service and federal police agencies, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation). Minnesota has statutorily established mandatory retirement for all judges at age 70 (more precisely, at the end of the month a judge reaches that age). The Minnesota Legislature has had the constitutional right to set judicial retirement ages since 1956, but did not do so until 1973, setting the age at 70.[148] The Federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act, which became law in 1986, ended mandatory age-related retirement at age 70 for many jobs, not including the Minnesota judiciary;[148] another exception was all postsecondary institutions (colleges, etc.) This exception ended on 31 December 1993.[149][150] The Fair Treatment for Experienced Pilots Act (Public Law 110–135) went into effect on 13 December 2007, raising the mandatory retirement age for pilots to 65 from the previous 60.[151]

In September 2016, California passed state bill AB-1687, an anti-ageism law taking effect on 1 January 2017, requiring "commercial online entertainment employment" services that allow paid subscribers to submit information and resumes (such as IMDbPro), to honor requests to have their ages and birthdays removed. The bill was supported by SAG-AFTRA's former and current presidents Ken Howard and Gabrielle Carteris, who felt that the law would help to reduce ageism in the entertainment industry.[152] On 23 February 2017, U.S. District Judge Vince Girdhari Chhabria issued a stay on the bill pending a further trial, claiming that it was "difficult to imagine how AB 1687 could not violate the First Amendment" because it inhibited the public consumption of factual information.[153] In February 2018, Girdhari ruled that the law was unconstitutional, arguing that the state of California "[had] not shown that partially eliminating one source of age-related information will appreciably diminish the amount of age discrimination occurring in the entertainment industry." The ruling was criticized by SAG-AFTRA, alleging that the court "incorrectly concluded there were no material disputed factual issues, while precluding the parties from acquiring additional evidence or permitting the case to go to trial". The ruling was eventually appealed, but the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld it in 2020.[154]

Asia and Oceania

Australia

In regards to employment, discrimination on the basis of age is illegal in each of the states and territories of Australia. At the national level, Australia is party to a number of international treaties and conventions that impose obligations to eliminate age discrimination.[155] The Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986 established the Australian Human Rights Commission and bestows on this Commission functions in relation to a number of international treaties and conventions that cover age discrimination.[155][156] During 1998–1999, 15% of complaints received by the Commission under the Act were about discrimination on the basis of age.[155]

Age discrimination laws at the national level were strengthened by the Age Discrimination Act 2004, which helps to ensure that people are not subjected to age discrimination in various areas of public life, including employment, the provision of goods and services, education, and the administration of Australian government laws and programs. The Act, however, does provide for exemptions in some areas, as well as providing for positive discrimination, that is, actions which assist people of a particular age who experience a disadvantage because of their age.[156] In 2011, the position of Age Discrimination Commissioner was created within the Australian Human Rights Commission. The Commissioner's responsibilities include raising awareness among employers about the beneficial contributions that senior Australians as well as younger employees can make in the workforce.[157] Every state in Australia has a probationary plate system for driver which is a known exemption to the Age Discrimination Act which allows different treatment in certain circumstances.[158]

The Australian Human Rights Commission has conducted a number of research projects on ageism including What's Age Got to do with it in 2021, Employing and retaining older workers in 2021 and the Willing to Work: Healthy Ageing Paper in 2016.[159] Other active organizations include EveryAge Counts and the Council on the Ageing.

China

The new retirement age in China was announced on 13 September 2024 and is now 63 for men, 58 for female civil servants and 55 for female workers. It will take effect on 1 January 2025. Previously, the retirement age was 60 for men, 55 for female civil servants, and 50 for female workers.[160] The 2024 change marked the first increase of the retirement age since the 1950s.[161] The retirement age will apply to people born on 1 January 1965 and later, and is increased by 1 month for every 4 months for males and females civil servants and 1 month for every 2 for female workers until 2040, based on the individual's month and year of birth. It is expected to be fully phased in for male workers born in September 1976, female civil servants born in September 1981 and female workers born in November 1984. The New regulation also stipulates that those affected by the change may voluntarily reduce their retirement age by up to 3 years if they have made the minimum length of pension payments, or delay their retirements by up to 3 years if permitted by the employer. The minimum pension payment period will also be increased from 15 years to 20 from 2030.[162][163][164]

Philippines

At least two bills have been filed before the 16th Congress of the Philippines seeking to address age discrimination in employment in the country. The Blas Ople Policy Center, a non-governmental organization, asserts that responsibilities of making a livelihood in a household has shifted to younger members of the family due to bias against hiring people older than 30 years of age. The organization also added that age discrimination contributes to the unemployment rate and acts as a hurdle to inclusive growth in the country. Overseas Filipino Workers returning from abroad seeking to find work in the country were tagged as vulnerable to age discrimination.[165][166]

South Korea

No kid zones are areas that prohibit children from being on the premises. No kid zones may be enforced by public venues and private businesses.[167] Such zones began to proliferate in South Korea in the early 2010s. Around this time, a number of court rulings held businesses at least partially responsible after children were injured on the premises. For example, in 2013, a business was held liable after a 10 year old child bumped into a store employee carrying hot water, which resulted in the child being burned.[168] According to the Jeju Research Institute, there are 542 no kid zones.[169] Other businesses may restrict customers of other ages such as teenagers or seniors.[170] No kid zones are controversial in South Korea.[171][168] Some view the zones as discriminatory and inconvenient towards women and children while others argue they are within the rights of business owners to enact.[168]

Europe

European Union

European citizenship provides the right to protection from discrimination on the grounds of age. According to Article 21–1 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union s:Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union#CHAPTER III. EQUALITY, "any discrimination based on any ground such as … age, shall be prohibited".[172]

Additional protection against age discrimination comes from the Framework Directive 2000/78/EC. It prohibits discrimination on grounds of age in the field of employment.[173]

Germany

The first retirement age was set in Germany by Otto Von Bismarck in 1881, originally at 70, before being reduced to 65 in 1916.[174]

On 18 August 2006, the General Equal Treatment Act (Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz, AGG) came into force. The aim of the AGG is to prevent and abolish discrimination on various grounds including age.[175]

A recent[when?] study suggested that youths in Germany feel the brunt of age discrimination.[176]

France

In France, Articles 225–1 through 225–4 of the penal code detail the penalization of ageism, when it comes to an age discrimination related to the consumption of goods and services, to the exercise of an economic activity, to the labor market or an internship, except in the cases foreseen in Article 225–3.[177][178][179]

Belgium

In Belgium, the Law of 25 February 2003 "tending to fight discrimination" punishes Ageism when "a difference of treatment that lacks objective and reasonable justification is directly based on ... age". Discrimination is forbidden when it refers to providing or offering a good or service, to conditions linked to work or employment, to the appointment or promotion of an employee, and yet to the access or participation in "an economic, social, cultural or political activity accessible to the public" (Article 2nd, § 4). Incitement to discrimination, to hatred or to violence against a person or a group on the grounds of ... age (Article 6) is punished with imprisonment and/or a fine.[180][181] Nevertheless, employment opportunities are worsening for people in their middle years in many of these countries, according to Martin Kohli et al. in Time for Retirement (1991).

Sweden

The Swedish Discrimination Act (2008:567) was enacted in 2008 and states that: "the purpose of the Act is to combat discrimination and in other ways promote equal rights and opportunities regardless of sex ... or age."[182]

United Kingdom

Barbara Robb, founder of the Aid for the Elderly in Government Institutions pressure group

Barbara Robb, founder of the British pressure group, Aid for the Elderly in Government Institutions (AEGIS), compiled Sans Everything: A Case to Answer, a controversial book detailing the inadequacies of care provided for older people, which prompted a nationwide scandal in the UK in 1976. Although initially official inquiries into these allegations reported that they were "totally unfounded or grossly exaggerated",[183] her campaigns led to revealing of other instances of ill treatment which were accepted and prompted the government to implement NHS policy changes.[184]

Councillor Richard Thomas brought up the issue of age discrimination at an early stage at a meeting of Bracknell Forest Council in March 1983. He pointed out it is a double side process, with discrimination working against both older and younger citizens.[citation needed]

In the UK, age discrimination laws were first brought into force in October 2006[185] and can be found in the Equality Act 2010, which implements the Equal Treatment Framework Directive 2000/78/EC and protects employees against direct discrimination, indirect discrimination, harassment and victimisation. Pursuant to the Equality Act 2010 it is generally unlawful to discriminate based upon age in the provision of goods and services.[186]

There have been many notable cases and official statistics show a 37% increase in claims in 2009/10[187] and a further 31% increase in 2010/11.[188] Examples include the case involving Rolls-Royce,[189] the "Heyday" case brought by Age UK[190] and the Miriam O'Reilly case against the BBC (2011).[191]

The European Social Study survey in 2011 revealed that nearly two out of five people claim to have been shown a lack of respect because of their age. The survey suggested that the UK is riven by intergenerational splits, with half of the people admitting they do not have a single friend over 70; this compares with only a third of Portuguese, Swiss and Germans who say that they do not have a friend of that age or older.[192] A Demos study in 2012 showed that three-quarters of people in the UK believed there to be not enough opportunities for older and younger people to meet and work together.[193]

The "Grey Pride" campaign has advocated for a Minister for Older People and had some success in 2011 when former Labour Leader Ed Miliband appointed Liz Kendall as Shadow Minister for Older People.[194]

In 2011, the artist Michael Freedman, an outspoken advocate against age discrimination within the art world says that "mature students, like me, come to art late in life, so why are we penalised and demotivated? Whatever happened to lifelong learning and the notion of a flexible workforce?"[195]

Advocacy against ageism

A 14-year-old newsboy in New York City, 1910

The Newsboys Strike of 1899 fought ageist employment practices targeted against the youth by large newspaper syndicates in the Northeast of America. The strikers demonstrated across the city for several days, effectively stopping circulation of the two papers, along with the news distribution for many New England cities. The strike lasted two weeks, causing Pulitzer's New York World to decrease its circulation from 360,000 papers sold per day to 125,000.[196] Although the price of papers was not lowered, the strike was successful in forcing the World and Journal to offer full buybacks to their sellers, thus increasing the amount of money that newsies received for their work.[197]

The American Youth Congress, or AYC, was formed in 1935 to advocate for youth rights in U.S. politics. It ended in 1940.[198]

AARP booth at Boston Pride Festival, 2017

AARP was founded in 1958 by Ethel Percy Andrus (a retired educator from California) and Leonard Davis (later the founder of the Colonial Penn Group of insurance companies).[199][200] Its stated mission is "to empower people to choose how they live as they age".[201] It is an influential lobbying group in the United States focusing largely on issues affecting the elderly.[202][203]

Aid for the Elderly in Government Institutions (AEGIS) was a British pressure group that campaigned to improve the care of older people in long-stay wards of National Health Service psychiatric hospitals.[204][205] The group was founded by Barbara Robb in 1965,[205] and was active until her death in 1976.[206]

The Gray Panthers was formed in 1970 by Maggie Kuhn, with a goal of eliminating mandatory retirement in the United States; they now work on many social justice issues including eliminating ageism.[207][208][209]

Youth Liberation of Ann Arbor started in 1970 to promote youth and fight ageism.

Three O'Clock Lobby formed in 1976 to promote youth participation throughout traditionally ageist government structures in Michigan.

Old Lesbians Organizing for Change was founded in 1987; the mission of the organization is to "eliminate the oppression of ageism and to stand in solidarity against all oppressions" through "[the] cooperative community of Old Lesbian feminist activists from many backgrounds working for justice and the well-being of all old lesbians."[210] Their initial meeting was inspired by the publication of the book Look Me in the Eye: Old Women, Aging and Ageism by Barbara Macdonald and Cynthia Rich in 1983.[211]

Americans for a Society Free from Age Restrictions formed in 1996 to advance the civil and human rights of young people through eliminating ageist laws targeted against young people, and to help youth counter ageism in America.[212]

National Youth Rights Association members protesting the voting age in Berkeley, California (2004)

The National Youth Rights Association started in 1998 to promote awareness of the legal and human rights of young people in the United States.[213]

The Freechild Project was formed in 2001 in the United States to identify, unify and promote diverse opportunities for youth engagement in social change by fighting ageism.

Director Paul Weitz reported he wrote the 2004 film, In Good Company, to reveal how ageism affects youth and adults.[214]

In 2002 The Freechild Project created an information and training initiative to provide resources to youth organizations and schools focused on youth rights.[215]

In 2006 Lydia Giménez-Llort, an assistant professor of Psychiatry and researcher at the Autonomous University of Barcelona coined the term "Snow White Syndrome" at the "Congrés de la Gent Gran de Cerdanyola del Vallès" (Congress of the Elderly of Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain) as a metaphor to define Ageism in an easier and more friendly way while developing a constructive spirit against it. The metaphor is based on both the auto-Ageism and adultocracy exhibited by the evil queen of the Snow White fairy tale as well as the social Ageism symbolized by the mirror.[216]

Since 2008 "The Intergenerational Study" by Lydia Giménez-Llort and Paula Ramírez-Boix from the Autonomous University of Barcelona is aimed to find the basis of the link between grandparents and grandsons (positive family relationships) that can minimize the Ageism towards the elderly. Students of several Spanish universities have enrolled in this study which soon will be also performed in the US, Nigeria, Barbados, Argentina, and Mexico. The preliminary results reveal that "The Intergenerational study questionnaire" induces young people to do a reflexive and autocritic analysis of their intergenerational relationships in contrast to those shown towards other unrelated old people which results very positive to challenge Ageism. A cortometraje about "The International Study" has been directed and produced by Tomás Sunyer from Los Angeles City College.[217]

Votes at 16 intends to lower the voting age in the United Kingdom to 16, reducing Ageism and giving 16-year-olds equal pay on the National Minimum Wage. The group claims that 16-year-olds get less money than older people for the same work, angering many 16-year-olds. They additionally postulate that 16-year-olds will have their voice listened to by older people more often.

Chilean director Sebastian Lelio created a U.S. version of his acclaimed 2013 film Gloria.[218] The original film challenges the notion that as women age they become culturally "invisible";[219] they may continue to be powerful, desirable, and sexually active. In the 2018 English remake, titled Gloria Bell, actress Julianne Moore portrayed the lead character.[220][221]

Accusations of ageism

In a 2005 interview, actor Pierce Brosnan cited ageism as one of the contributing factors as to why he was not asked to continue his role as James Bond in the Bond film Casino Royale, released in 2006.[222]

Also, successful singer and actress Madonna spoke out in her 50s about ageism and her fight to defy the norms of society.[223] In 2015, BBC Radio 1 were accused of ageism after the station did not add her new single to their playlist. Similarly, Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall has also raised the issue of ageism.[224]

A 2007 Pew Research Center study found that a majority of American voters would be less likely to vote for a President past a given age,[which?] with 45% saying that age would not matter.[citation needed]

Margaret Morganroth Gullette's 2017 book, Ending Ageism or How Not to Shoot Old People, provides multiple examples to illustrate the pervasiveness of ageism and delivers a call to action.[225]

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