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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

No, I am not [b]blatantly wrong[/b].  :lol:

I work in healthcare, with ELDERLY patients.  ELDERLY is the appropriate medical clinical term for people 65 years of age and older, and it is widely utilized. I happen to work with patients seeing doctors in some of the premier healthcare centers of this nation/world.

But please, enjoy your twisted panties poster.[/quote]

I find your response troubling, especially when your response to my citations is simply "twisted panties." Just because it's been used clinically, does not mean it's not harmful. I would *hope* that any clinician worth their salt would heed evolving research and practices to best serve their patients. The irony still being this thread is about treating people better when we know better, and your position does not make you exempt.

Here's a neurologist urging doctors to rethink the term: “[It – the term elderly] offers no useful information about any of this. In medicine it can evoke false ideas about the person being described as elderly in the listener’s mind, introduce unfair social biases and generalisations, and generate ill conceived policies.”

Here's another NIH study about the bias found in medicine using the term "elderly: "The objective of this study was to investigate and describe how the use of the term “elderly” contributes to bias and problems within the medical system. A systematic review of the relevant literature and history was conducted. The term “elderly” does not define age accurately and carries bias and prejudice that lead to harm through discriminatory practices, institutional prejudices, and “ageist” policies in society and medicine." [url]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6566481/[/url]

Dr. Hekmat-Panah feels that aging is not a disease per se and this term marks out the older individuals from other patients. He writes, “Aging is not a disease, it is a progressive biological change and there may be vast differences in the health of people who are aged 65 and over. One [b]older[/b] patient may not be able to tolerate a medical treatment because of accumulated comorbidities, but another of the same age without comorbidities may easily do so.” [url]https://www.news-medical.net/news/20190304/The-term-elderly-must-be-avoided-in-medicine.aspx#:~:text=In%20medicine%20it%20can%20evoke,older%20individuals%20from%20other%20patients.[/url]

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Dr. Hekmat-Panah is an ageist monster! [/quote]

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