Title: What is Social Gerontology?
Headings: What is Social Gerontology?
What is Social Gerontology?
Ageism: Stereotyping and Prejudice
In the Workforce
In the Media
In Healthcare
How do I Get Involved?
Myths Associated with Aging
Aging means Alzheimer's
Aging means no contribution to society
Aging means physical inactivity
Aging means the end of learning
Aging means loneliness and depression

Content: Additionally, children are perhaps the most susceptible to negative media portrayals. In“The Development of Children's Prejudice Against the Aged,” Leora W. Isaacs and David J. Bearison found that by the time children enter middle school, they have already developed negative opinions of older adults. This has added to a lack of knowledge on aging, and the development of aging myths. Social gerontology seeks to dispel these myths, advocating equal treatment of older adults through speeches, presentations, and public education programs. Ageism: Stereotyping and Prejudice
In the book “Ageism: Stereotyping and Prejudice Against Older Persons,” Todd Nelson writes that age prejudice is “the most socially condoned, institutionalized form of prejudice in the world – especially the United States.” Ageism is perpetrated through institutional policies that perpetuate stereotypes through discriminatory practices toward older adults – meaning that older adults find themselves discriminated against in the workforce, in the media, and in the health care system. In the Workforce
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 prevents employers from laying off anyone over 40 based on age, but age discrimination is still widespread in the workplace. Nelson cites jokes, expressed ageist attitudes, and discriminatory attitudes in regard to hiring, firing, and decision making as forms of discrimination still practiced in the workplace.