How to call the elderly?
Gerontologist Dee Wadsworth suggests:
"As a gerontologist I use the phrase ‘older adult.’ Cohort words like Senior and Boomer refer to specific generations. Boomers will never respond to the term senior because that was their parent. I was taught to avoid ageism best to use older adult just like we use younger adult. It refers to the continuum of lifespan development."
Of course, the terminology is not necessarily the main issue, but still it underlies the mass attitudes about aging and aged people.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robinseatonjefferson/2017/08/24/addressing-how-we-talk-about-aging-never-gets-old-whatever-you-do-dont-say-elderly/#2c6b01921772
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Clean my face give me an my body so wekness is evry day am 20 year old why
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ReplyDeleteI read that if you haven't grown up by the time you're 50... you don't have to. Kinda' lets me off the hook...
me too:)
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