12 Quotes About Ageism

Ageism is the discrimination against people because of their age, which is an issue that needs to be addressed more often. There are countless people who are discriminated against based solely on their age, but that doesn't mean they don't have anything to offer society. Ageism is a serious problem in many parts of the world, but luckily there are people fighting back with these ageist quotes to inspire you.

Success is not about age, it's about action.
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Success is not about age, it's about action. Richie Norton
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Some people say they have 20 years experience, when in reality, they have 1 year's experience repeated 20 times. (Stephen M R Covey to Richie Norton when Norton asked if he was too young to train older executives for Covey.) Richie Norton
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Women not only bear the brunt of the equation of beauty with youth, we perpetuate it–every time we dye our hair to cover the gray or lie about our age, not to mention have plastic surgery to cover the signs of aging. Ashton Applewhite
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Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand. Wayne Gerard Trotman
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The good thing about being old is not being young. Stephen Richards
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When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring. .. Wow, it's good to be old! Stephen Richards
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Never judge a woman by her age. A.J. Darkholme
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If we are to welcome the elderly into our communities and support them to stay there for as long as possible, if we are to attend to the social needs of our elderly citizens both inside and out of institutions, then we need both government intervention and funding, along with the community's engagement and help. Karen Hitchcock
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When I spoke to a colleague about Joe's report, her face registered surprise. She said, "Is it possible for a death in a nursing home to be premature?" Joe told me, "If it were happening in any other kind of institution, to any other part of the population - workers, say, or children - there'd be an outcry, media, inquiries, swift intervention. The truth is we do not value the last months or years of a person's life. The remaining life of someone old. Particularly if they are in residential care." If we are all just economic units who lift or lean, then very little is "lost" when a nursing home resident or anyone getting on in their years dies prematurely. In fact money might be saved - one less nursing-home bed to fund, and the kids can finally get their hands on the house. Karen Hitchcock
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No one wants to go into a nursing home. My patients fear it; families often feel terrible guilt when the time comes: it is thought of as an abandonment. Nursing homes are where we place our bad outcomes, our frail, our no-longer-independents. They are places people go to wait safely to die. The old doubly incontinents. You might have stood up to Stalin, you might still read Tolstoy, but if you're losing it from both the front and back and you're not a two-year-old, you're going to be hidden away. "Don't know the nursing homes, they do a pretty good job, " a geriatrician said to me. And most of the time they perform their function: as a holding bay for old people. Most of the time. Karen Hitchcock
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Medicine and society have entered into a folie a deaux regarding medicine's importance in gigantic population ills. We believe that genetics and pills and enzymes bring us health. We wait for the dementia cure (the obesity cure, the diabetes cure) rather than changing our society to decrease incidence and severity. We slash social welfare programs and access to GPs and ignore the downstream effect this will have on future generations. To reduce non-communicable disease, the actions we need to take are societal: make it easier for people to move and eat well, strengthen education, promote community participation and meaningful work. Our collective delusion is that we can have all the benefits such a society would bring without the structural supports necessary to bring it into being, that we can attain health by inventing and buying drugs. It is hard to know which is the more utopian vision: magic pills or a society serious about prevention. . Karen Hitchcock