Critique of Ageism

Running head: AGEISM 1
JUSTICE AND CHANGE IN THE GLOBAL WORLD
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AGEISM 2
Critique of Ageism
As stated in the previous assignment, ageism refers to a type of discrimination and
mistreatment against older people. Rendering to Chrisler (2016), elderly people are often
regarded as nonexistence and unnecessary in the contemporary world. Ageism deters the
equitable sharing of resources for the common good to humanity since the older people are
degraded, stereotyped and are usually not given equal opportunities as other groups of population
in the society. According to a journal by Estelle (2018), ageism is one of the most prevalent
modes of human discrimination. The detrimental treatment of ageism defiles particularity of
human dignity which calls for good of all people. Cameron, (2015); and Levy (2016), affirm it is
a kind of disempowerment and disrespect to the elderly group in the country which causes
detrimental effects such as poor life quality, deprived life esteem, and other health- weakening
attributes. The insidious disrespect of human dignity in ageism needs to be addressed for its
prevalence significance in healthcare and also as an act of professional law.
Principles of human
The principles to human dignity are determined to protect human life and have been
echoed and advocated by different laws such as the German Bardic LAW and the Catholic social
teachings. According to the teachings, all humans are created by the likeness of God and the old
are no exceptions. The teaching calls for radical equality of all people and every individual
should make an effort to treat each other with the dignity they deserve.

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Ways to address the ageism challenge
Ageism entails deep-rooted negative stereotypes of the older people and the problem
requires equally deep-rooted measures to wash away the beliefs. Some of the approaches ate
personal level, community level, and global level include;
Fighting ageism locally by changing the perception about the older people; seeing the
person rather than the age
According to North (2012) age is just a social group that everyone can join. Age gender
and race encompasses the three main dimensions of interpersonal categorization, only age that
cut across the categories in which every person potentially joins. Due to this universality, there is
a need for a change of perception to acknowledge the significance of this vital category. North
(2012) tries to bring out ageism in an intergeneration perception and views ageism in another
lens. Changing on the perception of the old involves viewing the elderly with another lens. It
can be achieved through the following;
Advocating successful intergeneration contact
A key approach to change the perception about the old people and combating ageism is
keeping a successful intergeneration connection between members of the community. Numerous
researches have been successful in evaluating the significance of fostering continuous contact,
collaboration, and interaction between different age groups in the community. Chen, (2017),
finds increased the change of altitudes and reduction of stereotyping after an increased
interaction between grandparents and their grandchildren. Increased contact and interaction
between generations is an effective mechanism to reduce ageism in the contemporary world.
Establishment of elder subtypes