AGEISM AND CLASSISM

Ageism

 prejudice or discrimination on the grounds of a person's age:

 prejudice or discrimination against people based on their age. It typically applies to people who
are older but can also affect young people.
Ageism has far-reaching impacts on all aspects of our health and well-being when we are
older: (According to WHO)
 1. It is associated with earlier death.
 2. It is linked to poorer physical health, affecting, among others, our ability to recover from
disability and our sexual and reproductive health.
 3. It increases risky health behaviors (e.g., eating an unhealthy diet, smoking)
 4. It is associated with poorer mental health, including the onset of depression, increases
in depressive symptoms over time and lifetime depression.
 5. It is associated with a lower quality of life and contributes to social isolation and
loneliness.
 Ageism also takes a heavy economic toll on individuals and society and exacerbates other
forms of disadvantage.
 In one study, 70 percent of older Americans said they had been insulted or mistreated because
of their age. This can be seen in various ways:
 Being called honey or sweetie
 Being talked over in a conversation
 Being thought of as crabby
 Being ignored
 Having someone rush around you as if you are too slow
 Being mocked or treated as a child
 Having someone do something for you that you are capable of doing
CLASSISM
 a belief that a person's social or economic station in society determines their value in
that society
 Classism (or class discrimination): is the institutional, cultural, and individual set of
practices and beliefs that assign differential value to people according to their socioeconomic
class; and an economic system that creates excessive inequality and causes basic human
needs to go unmet
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