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  2. Ageism

Ageism

  • Active prejudice towards elders
  • Prejudice against the aged
  • Denial of rights to elderly
  • Age discrimination before the law
  • Prejudicial treatment of older people

Nature

The systematic oppression of older people by younger ones. People of advancing age are silenced by retirement and the cult of youth, and isolated from contact with other age groups. The result is a peculiarly suicidal vision of life as a journey to nowhere. Health, welfare and social programmes for the aged have to deal with this pervasive attitude not only among younger people, but often as strongly among the elderly themselves.

Broader

Social injustice
Presentable
Discrimination
Presentable

Narrower

Age segregation
Presentable
Gerontocide
Yet to rate
Cult of youth
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Aggravates

Late pregnancies
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Aggravated by

Loss of decorum
Presentable
Human ageing
Presentable
Familism
Yet to rate

Related

Strategy

Value

Self-denial
Yet to rate
Rights
Yet to rate
Prejudice
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Maltreatment
Yet to rate
Lawfulness
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Denial
Yet to rate
Age
Yet to rate

Reference

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #3: Good Health and Well-beingSustainable Development Goal #10: Reduced Inequality

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems
Subject
  • Society » Elderly
  • Societal problems » Deprivation
  • Law » Law
  • Content quality
    Presentable
     Presentable
    Language
    English
    Last update
    Dec 2, 2024