Commentary New York City (NYC) officials recently collaborated with the Department for the Aging and the Department of Education to launch a new curriculum designed to curb age discrimination in the city. The goal is to educate kids, to teach them that aging shouldn’t be viewed as a disease. Instead, it should be viewed as…
Ageism in America Is Bad, TikTok Is Making It Much Worse
Commentary In February, just a few months after the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued Eli Lilly over alleged age bias, the American pharmaceutical company headquartered in Indianapolis found itself at the center of yet another age discrimination lawsuit. A senior sales rep at Eli Lilly alleged that the company had been attempting to weed…
CTV News Head Who Fired Anchor Lisa LaFlamme Permanently Replaced
Head of CTV News Michael Melling, the man at the helm when national reporter Lisa LaFlamme was fired abruptly, has been permanently replaced after a third-party review of the newsroom. “We are pleased to announce that Richard Gray, Interim VP, News is assigned to the role on a permanent basis. Michael Melling has been reassigned…
10 Ways to Overcome Ageism While Job Hunting During Retirement
It’s never too late to start a new job. It’s estimated that, on average, a typical American worker now has more than ten jobs over the course of their lifetime. But unfortunately, whether you’re inspired to enter a new field or want a new job after you retire, one of the biggest obstacles to re-entering the workforce can…
The Urgent Need to Address Ageism
Earlier this year, the World Health Organization announced a global campaign to combat ageism—discrimination against older adults that’s pervasive and harmful but often unrecognized. “We must change the narrative around age and aging” … “adopt strategies to counter” [ageist attitudes and behaviors], WHO concluded in a major report accompanying the campaign. Several strategies the WHO endorsed—educating people about…
Seniors Decry Health Providers’ Age Bias
Joanne Whitney, 84, a retired associate clinical professor of pharmacy at the University of California–San Francisco, often feels devalued when interacting with health care providers. There was a time several years ago when she told an emergency room doctor that the antibiotic he wanted to prescribe wouldn’t counteract the kind of urinary tract infection she…
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