- summary
First of all, aging is not only biological but also sociological. It depends on people, whether you think s/he as old person or not. For example, it is different what culture s/he lives in. The word 'Ageism' refers to prejudice which based on the age. Ageism is not only for the elders. People aware of the mistreatment which elderly gets, but young people also can be the victim of ageism. For example, they can't vote in many elections and they also can't buy alcohols and cigarettes. The mistreatment elderly gets are a little bit different compares to young. It includes behavioral restrictions to physical abuse. Elderly in the states used to be the poorest age group in the country, but U.S. government has dropped that dramatically. While the old age groups have improved in their financial statement, but still old women are easier to fall below the federal poverty line than are man.
Now, the whole world is aging. The speed of that differs from the country, but still the aging is true. People usually think that aging come up with declining health, but according to current research, maintaining a positive attitude can help their health.
- Interesting/new things
According to this article, there is a belief that people get old, they gets sutbborn. But that belief is not true, and elders are actually getting flexible thoughts when they get old. I also have that prejudice because of the elders that I've been met, but it was good to know that prejudice is not true and just a prejudice.
- Discussion point
It also mentioned in article, there are people who think that abandonning alchol and cigretts towerds teenagers is not a right thing. They suggets that teenagers can judge wich is good or bad. So they say that they already have judgement ability, Yet, our society doesn't allow them to dirnk or somke. Do you agree with their idea that teenagers inability to legally imbibe alchol or smoke cigaretts are mistreaments? Or not? And why do you think like that?
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