Prevalence of ageism - Time to stop this prejudice
Three organisations — the National Council on Ageing and Older People, the Equality Authority, and the Health Service Executive — have banded together for the past five years to highlight the problems of ageism. But their performance has left much to be desired, because ageism is endemic throughout Irish society.
Ageism is defined as a negative attitude that leads to stereotyping of older people in a manner that prompts discrimination against them. It promotes the idea that older people are a burden. All right-thinking people must tackle this attitude, because it fuels grave injustices.
