Ageism

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This paper explores the history of discrimination against the elderly, known as ageism. It discusses how Maggie Kuhn became an activist and created the Senior Rights' Organization named the 'Gray Panthers'. The author expands on the aims of this organization to bring about awareness, better social welfare and legislation for equal opportunities within the job arena.

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"It appears that some policies deliberately exclude or segregate certain minority groups like African-American, and so on, and women and the elderly are also considered to be among the minority group of oppressed citizens. (Continuum on becoming an anti-racist multi-cultural institution) However, not everywhere is there discrimination against the ageing population; in fact, the policy named 'Culturally Appropriate Aged Care', supports the various 'Access and Equity Policies', which make sure that the elderly population of Australia, irrespective of their cultural or racial or linguistic backgrounds, would have an equal amount of 'culturally appropriate aged care', and since the implementation of this program would require that languages other than English would have to be used, this is also taken care of, and this means that the policy would benefit not only those people form indigenous communities, but also immigrants from non-English speaking countries."

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