Title: 5 Ageist Stereotypes That Really Need To Go Away Already | HuffPost Life
Headings: 5 Ageist Stereotypes That Really Need To Go Away Already
Aging In America
5 Ageist Stereotypes That Really Need To Go Away Already
Ageism is the last ism to go unaddressed. We want to address it.
1. People who work past 65 are clogging up the job pipeline.
2. You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
3. Older people are too sensitive.
4. Age discrimination isn’t a real thing.
5. Retirement villages are great places for older people.

Content: Other Pew surveys found that older adults who say they get news on social media engage with news on these platforms at similar rates as social media news consumers who are 18 to 29. Why would anyone think that people’s learning curve flatlines when they turn 50? Yet there’s real damage done when people assume that every older person is a tech illiterate. Not to state the obvious, but who do you think taught all those recent college graduates their tech skills? Someone older, of course. 3. Older people are too sensitive. When a joke isn’t funny and wounds people, is it still a joke? No, it isn’t ― and the “just joking” defense rightly doesn’t fly with gender discrimination, sexual harassment, racism and the like. Words matter, and language-based ageism is still ageism.