Agist society or not

Key messages we want to use to stop ageism in our community  A strong message from Maddy at Home

·       Ageism is all around us.

·      All older people are different but ageism assumes that growing older is the same experience for everyone.

·      We must question ageism and how older people are often stereotyped in a certain way because of their age.

·      We live in a world where older people’s rights are denied. This must change! 

·      We live in an ageing world. Don’t let it be an ageist one.

·       Ageism leads to age discrimination, which, like all discrimination, legitimises and sustains inequalities.

·       Describing or depicting older age as something to resist or even delay reinforces ageist stereotypes and suggests living longer is a negative experience for everyone.

·      Ageism puts unnecessary pressures on ourselves to achieve certain goals at a certain time in our lives before we are deemed “too old” to do them.

·       No one can get younger but we can live in a world where living longer is celebrated and not dreaded.

·       Let’s begin to appreciate our diversity throughout our whole lives including in later age\