Ageism - World Health Organization (WHO)
Oct 8, 2025 · Ageism has far-reaching impacts on all aspects of our health and well-being when we are older: It is linked to poorer physical health, affecting, among others, our ability to recover from …
Ageing: Ageism - World Health Organization (WHO)
Mar 18, 2021 · Ageism is everywhere: from our institutions and relationships to ourselves. For example, ageism is in policies that support healthcare rationing by age, practices that limit younger people’s …
Global report on ageism - World Health Organization (WHO)
Mar 18, 2021 · The Global report on ageism outlines a framework for action to reduce ageism including specific recommendations for different actors (e.g. government, UN agencies, civil society …
Demographic Change and Healthy Ageing - Combatting Ageism
Ageism affects how we think, feel and act towards others and ourselves based on age. It imposes powerful barriers to the development of good policies and programmes for older and younger people, …
Online Launch: The WHO Ageism Scale – A new way to measure ageism
Apr 28, 2025 · Ageism, which is how we think (stereotypes), feel (prejudices), and act (discrimination) towards others or ourselves based on age, is harmful for our health and well-being. The UN Global …
Ageism is a global challenge: UN - World Health Organization (WHO)
Mar 18, 2021 · The report released today calls for urgent action to combat ageism and better measurement and reporting to expose ageism for what it is – an insidious scourge on society.
Global report on ageism: executive summary
Mar 18, 2021 · The Global report on ageism outlines a framework for action to reduce ageism including specific recommendations for different actors (e.g. government, UN agencies, civil society …
Vieillissement : l'âgisme
L’âgisme touche tout le monde. Dès l’âge de 4 ans, les enfants prennent conscience des stéréotypes liés à l’âge dans leur culture. Ils intériorisent et utilisent alors ces stéréotypes, qui influent sur leurs …
Envejecimiento : edadismo
El edadismo afecta a todos. A partir de los cuatro años, los niños empiezan a ser conscientes de los estereotipos de edad de su cultura. Desde entonces, interiorizan y utilizan esos estereotipos para …
Initiating a conversation about ageism - World Health Organization …
Mar 18, 2021 · Ageism harms us individually and collectively, affecting our health and well- being and costing society billions of dollars. Fortunately, ageism can be combatted, but collective action is …