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Ageism and age discrimination
Ageism and age discrimination

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Acknowledgements

This free course was produced by the Older People's Commissioner for Wales in partnership with The Open University in Wales.

Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] ), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence.

The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course:

Images

Course image: Clement C /peopleimages.com via Adobe Stock

Figure 3 composite image:

UK traffic sign for older and disabled pedestrians, © Crown copyright, Open Government Licence

The 'dancing couple' winning competition design, courtesy of Centre for Ageing Better, Creative Commons - CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)

Figure 4 composite image:

Older Woman with a Walking Stick in a Standing Pose, BeezeeStock via Envato Elements.

Man on his phone by In-Press Photography via Centre for Ageing Better, Creative Commons - CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0).

Person's hand in shallow focus, Danie Franco via Unsplash

Older woman smiling in front of art via Centre for Ageing Better, Creative Commons - CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0).

Figure 11: Courtesy of the Older People's Commissioner for Wales.

Video

Video 1 Courtesy of the Older People's Commissioner for Wales.

Video 2: Courtesy of HelpAge International.

Video 3: Courtesy of Global Campaign to Combat Ageism.

Video 4: Courtesy of Equality and Human Rights Commission.

Video 5: Courtesy of the Older People's Commissioner for Wales.

Video 6: Courtesy of Centre for Ageing Better.

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