Primary Education Topic:
Leadership in Aging
Other Education Topics:
Legal & Ethical Issues
Policy and Advocacy
The first step toward fixing a problem is to understand why it exists, and then propose solutions.
By Laura A. Robbins
If you are not already part of a group disadvantaged by prejudice, just wait a couple of decades—you will be. Unlike all other prejudices, ageism is relevant to every person fortunate enough to make it beyond a sixth decade of life. Unlike the attention focused on other prejudices, however, ageism has been poorly studied and rarely confronted. Until recently, little was known about its origins and consequences.