Ageism Is Touchy Topic for Older Boomers
Deseret News (Salt Lake City) › September 05, 2004
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NEW YORK -- Greeting-card and novelty companies call them "Over the Hill" products: the 50th Birthday Coffin Gift Boxes featuring prune juice and anti-aging soap; the "Old Coot" and "Old Biddy" bobblehead dolls; the birthday cards mocking the mobility, intellect and sex drive of the no-longer-young.
Many Americans chuckle at such humor. Others see it as offensive, as one more sign of pervasive ageism in America.See the full content of this document
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Ageism Is Touchy Topic for Older Boomers
It's a bias some also see in substandard conditions at nursing homes, in pension-plan cutbacks by employers, in the relative invisibility of the elderly on television shows and in advertisements.
"Daily we are witness to, or even unwitting participants in, cruel imagery, j...See the full content of this document
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