Let’s ditch ageing stereotypes now

Stock images of a pair of wrinkled hands used to represent older people are deeply unfair and don’t remotely tell the person’s story, finds Margaret Jennings.

A CATCHY hashtag #NoMoreWrinklyHands is leading a twitter campaign to challenge the way society and the media portray older people in a one- dimensional and often disrespectful way.

The phrase is rooted in the fact that quite often news stories or research reports about people in later life, are portrayed online by pictures of a pair of folded wrinkly hands or other disembodied images, which is dehumanising claim the objectors.