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  1. Ageism - World Health Organization (WHO)

    Oct 8, 2025 · Ageism has far-reaching impacts on all aspects of our health and well-being when we are older: It is linked to poorer physical health, affecting, among others, our ability to recover from …

  2. Demographic Change and Healthy Ageing - Combatting Ageism

    Ageism affects how we think, feel and act towards others and ourselves based on age. It imposes powerful barriers to the development of good policies and programmes for older and younger people, …

  3. Global report on ageism - World Health Organization (WHO)

    Mar 18, 2021 · The Global report on ageism outlines a framework for action to reduce ageism including specific recommendations for different actors (e.g. government, UN agencies, civil society …

  4. Ageing: Ageism - World Health Organization (WHO)

    Mar 18, 2021 · Ageism is everywhere: from our institutions and relationships to ourselves. For example, ageism is in policies that support healthcare rationing by age, practices that limit younger people’s …

  5. Online Launch: The WHO Ageism Scale – A new way to measure ageism

    Apr 28, 2025 · Ageism, which is how we think (stereotypes), feel (prejudices), and act (discrimination) towards others or ourselves based on age, is harmful for our health and well-being. The UN Global …

  6. Ageism is a global challenge: UN - World Health Organization (WHO)

    Mar 18, 2021 · The report released today calls for urgent action to combat ageism and better measurement and reporting to expose ageism for what it is – an insidious scourge on society.

  7. Global report on ageism: executive summary

    Mar 18, 2021 · The Global report on ageism outlines a framework for action to reduce ageism including specific recommendations for different actors (e.g. government, UN agencies, civil society …

  8. Initiating a conversation about ageism - World Health Organization …

    Mar 18, 2021 · Ageism harms us individually and collectively, affecting our health and well- being and costing society billions of dollars. Fortunately, ageism can be combatted, but collective action is …

  9. Envejecimiento : edadismo

    La mitad de la población mundial es edadista con respecto a las personas mayores y, en Europa, única región de la que se dispone de datos sobre todos los grupos etarios, los más jóvenes informan de …

  10. El edadismo es un problema mundial - Naciones Unidas

    Según un nuevo informe de las Naciones Unidas sobre el edadismo, se calcula que una de cada dos personas en el mundo tiene actitudes edadistas, lo que empobrece la salud física y mental de las …