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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My question is: why are some people so ageist?

OP this is about your mother. Not about legions of older adults. Get a clue. Also, it's "older adults" not "elderly people."

Finally, you are just like your mom. You want her to have compassion, yet you have none for her. [/quote]

I agree with your comment about ageism insofar as OP is projecting her mother's behavior onto all elderly people.

But your admonishment about using the term elderly is inappropriate; elderly is the clinical term for anyone 65 years of age or older, 65-74 is early elderly, 74+ is late elderly. There is nothing wrong or insulting about the word elderly, it is the proper term for late stage human existence. [/quote]

You are [b]blatantly wrong[/b].

Here's a study from the NIH showing that: "Results demonstrated that the term “elderly” was framed powerlessly, in predominantly negative (74%) stereotypical messages about older adults." [url]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9132357/[/url]

The Gerontological Society of Aging has been actively promoting guidelines about age-inclusive language, which is fortunately being adopted: "New guidelines from the American Medical Association, the American Psychological Association, Associated Press and the GSA are taking guidance from Reframing Aging, and moving towards eliminating ageist language." [url]https://publichealth.wustl.edu/age-inclusive-language-are-you-using-it-in-your-writing-and-everyday-speech/[/url]

Here's a 2011 editorial by several academics referencing how the term is ageist based on a 2000 study: "The term elderly is ageist. Ageist terms are those terms in which a stereotype is promulgated and treatment is delivered differently on the basis of age.1 " [url]https://journals.lww.com/jgpt/fulltext/2011/10000/use_of_the_term__elderly_.1.aspx[/url][/quote]
Fine. OPs mom is geriatric. [/quote]

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