Health Sciences 2711A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Old Age, Ageism, Lip Reading
28 Apr 2019
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Week 3 wednesday january 23rd 2018 aging in society. Language and aging (how we refer to them: negative: greezer, fossil, old fogey, positive: senior, senior citizen, mature adult, retired person, older adult, elder (most neutral) Aging in mass media: television most important (golden girls, feature films, print journalism. Age prejudice/ ageism: cognition and emotion or thought and a feeling, negative attitudes toward older adults based on belief that aging makes people, unattractive, unintelligent, asexual, unemployable, mentally incompetent. Age discrimination: behaviour, treating people in an unjustly negative manner because of their chronological age (or appearance of age) and for no other reason. Her infectiously positive outlook is what keeps her looking younger eevery day: infantilizing: what a sweet woman. I especially love her little winks: internalized ageism: there is still so much to learn, even at my age, internalized microaggression: hang in there we need people who are interested in someone older than themselves.
