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Ageism and age discrimination
Ageism and age discrimination

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1.1.3 Implications

Watch this short video produced by the World Health Organization’s campaign to combat ageism.

Video 3 'Global Campaign to Combat Ageism - #AWorld4AllAges', UN Decade of Healthy Ageing (See transcript [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] [PDF, 21 KB])
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The video focuses on the personal impact of stereotyping and prejudice based on age. You may have similar experiences in terms of how you have felt or how you have thought about another person.

Having considered stereotypes and prejudice and looked at some examples we can conclude that the society and culture we live in sometimes makes it easy to stereotype others without much thought on the consequences it can have.