Disrupting Ageism - The Prejudice Against Our Future Selves

The World Health Organisation defines ‘ageism’ as the stereotypes (how we think), prejudice (how we feel) and discrimination (how we act) towards others or oneself based on age, and a UK survey found that 77% of older adults experience ‘everyday ageism’. But ageism has another face too – the one we fear seeing in the mirror – and the combination of both inner and outer exposure to negative attitudes to ageing has been shown to have a long-term effect on health outcomes. Although there are many aspects of ageing without children that are out of our control, befriending and challenging our ‘inner ageist’ is something we each can do as a way to nurture the well-being of our future selves; it may also embolden us to make the world around us less ageist. Join us and learn to challenge your negative thinking about your future self; they’ll thank you for it one day! Chaired by Jody Day.