- In advertisements of beauty products and juices that aim to ‘fight ageing’;
- In laws that exclude people beyond a certain age from access to innovative surgical treatments, from receiving a mobility allowance and from benefiting from work-related training due to age limits;
- in remarks such as ‘you are too old for that’;
- in beliefs that young people are ‘smarter, more dynamic, more capable’ than the old;
- in cases where older people are refused car insurance, credit card or travel insurance merely on the basis of their age
- in jokes that the solution to the health crisis is to let older people die
- in practices whereby families abandon older people in hospitals, known as ‘granny dumping’
- in the lack of investment for lifelong learning and care services for the older population
- in fairy tales that depict older people as synonymous to forgetfulness, frailty, grumpiness and death
- in medical diagnoses that attribute pain, soreness and sickness just to old age
- in attitudes that consider elder abuse and neglect as normal parts of caregiving instead of wrong and harmful human rights violations
- in extreme degrading practices, such as witch hunting.
Tip!
Stop thinking about older people as different. Older people are not a group set apart; ageing is a continuous and normal process that concerns everyone. Do not talk about older people as ‘they’ instead reflect on how ageism affects ‘us’
Did you know that in contrast to common beliefs that portray older people as sad and depressed, according to research people are happiest at the beginnings and the end of their lives? To check your own misconceptions and prejudices about ageing, see:
“Athough the Universal Declaration on Human Rights proclaims that all human beings are born free and equal, it is evident that the enjoyment of all human rights diminishes with age, owing to the negative notion that older persons are somehow less productive, less valuable to society and a burden to the economy and to younger generations.”
UN Open-ended Working Group on Ageing, 2017
- AGE Platform Europe paper on structural ageism
- Older persons’ self-advocacy handbook by AGE Platform Europe
- AGE Platform Europe manifesto on human rights
- AGE Platform Europe work on non-discrimination
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Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) annual report focus: “Shifting perceptions: towards a rights‑based approach to ageing“
- Open access book “Contemporary perspectives on ageism“
- World Health Organisation global campaign to combat ageism
- Helpage work on age discrimination
- COST action on Ageism
- “Old School” – A clearing house for all things anti-ageism
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Contre l’impératif jeuniste, changeons de regard sur la vieillesse !
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Ageism is contagious
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Trying to make sense of ageism in health
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“When I’m Hundred-Four…” – Ageism in statistics
By Maciej Kucharczyk – Policy Director, AGE Platform Europe “When I’m Sixty-Four” sang the Beatles in
A Day to Reaffirm that Older People Have Rights
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The U.N. Independent Expert calls all generations to protect rights of ageing society
GENEVA (27 September 2018) – The United Nations Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human
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I am old, so what?
‘I am old, so what?’ – An ageism awareness campaign from Barcelona ‘Sóc gran, i què?’
AGE President launches the ‘Ageing Equal’ campaign
“The 2015 Eurobarometer survey on discrimination shows that discrimination or harassment because of old age is the
Meet human rights champion Barbro Westerholm
Barbro Westerholm has been recently re-elected to the Swedish Parliament, where she serves as its oldest
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