Are You Ageist? Take this Quiz
Ronni Bennett on As Time Goes By reveals that most of us are more ageist than we think:She writes:
David notes that rather than be troubled if our test results are less than stellar, we should ask ourselves “what we are going to do to transcend the bias so that no negative actions flow from it…“Getting older doesn't do it,” continues David.
“I've met countless people in their 70s, 80s and older who are ageist. The battles that take place in senior housing "facilities" waged by the relatively fit against those in wheelchairs and on walkers coming into the same dining room are the result of ageism - the relatively fit rejecting those who are visibly less fit because the former associate aging with infirmity. People who wage such battles have failed to fulfill Jung's First Task of Aging.
"Incidentally, scores of non-profit organizations wanting to do good works for seniors call the communities they build for them "facilities." Is that not an ageist term? No one calls housing for younger people ‘facilities.’”
So try the test (you must have Javascript enabled) and then come back here and tell us how you did.
Labels: advocacy, elder spirit, gratitude, seniors
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