Title: Ageism - Wikipedia
Headings: Ageism
Ageism
Contents
Classification
Distinction from other age-related bias
Implicit ageism
Government ageism
Stereotyping
Prejudice
Digital ageism
Visual ageism
Discrimination
Employment
Hollywood
Healthcare
Effects of ageism
Catholic Church
Africa
Nigeria
America
Canada
Colombia
United States
Asia
Australia
Philippines
European Union
Germany
France
Belgium
Sweden
United Kingdom
Advocacy against ageism
Related campaigns
Accusations of ageism
See also
References
External links
Further reading

Content: Implicit ageism
Implicit ageism refers to thoughts, feelings, and judgements that operate without conscious awareness and automatically produce in everyday life. These may be a mixture of positive and negative thoughts and feelings, but gerontologist Becca Levy reports that they "tend to be mostly negative". Government ageism
Agism is also present in the way that the current system of public expenditures is unfair to younger generations, defined as birth cohorts rather than age groups. The vast and growing size of unfunded health and retirement benefits will require today’s children to bear a heavy tax burden when they grow up to be working-age adults. In 10 years over half the US budget will be spent on older adults according to a Forbes article. Stereotyping
Stereotyping is a tool of cognition which involves categorizing into groups and attributing characteristics to these groups. Stereotypes are necessary for processing huge volumes of information which would otherwise overload a person and are generally accurate descriptors of group characteristics, though some