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Ageism in NYC is a serious issue with 29% of young New Yorkers feeling seniors shouldn’t work: poll

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Last updated: 2023/07/05 at 3:02
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Respect your elders! 

Age discrimination is a critical problem that should be confronted within the Large Apple — particularly because the variety of residents ages 65 and up is anticipated to proceed climbing, in line with a brand new report.

“Older adults and folks of colour have skilled disproportionate sickness and demise in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic,” town Well being Division stated in an evaluation on ageism.

“The pandemic has additionally uncovered and perpetuated ageism. For instance, some public discourse portrayed older adults as much less useful than youthful folks when it got here to allocation of sources for care,” in line with the temporary, entitled “How Ageist Are We, New York Metropolis?”

Of New York Metropolis’s 8.65 million residents, 1.73 million or 20% are seniors 60 years of age and over, in accordance to the Division for the Growing old.

That determine is anticipated to surge to 1.86 million, or 40%, by 2040 as members of the infant boomer era grow to be senior residents. 

Age discrimination might worsen the bodily and psychological well being circumstances of older New Yorkers and enhance medical prices, whereas constructive emotions about age can have useful well being results comparable to “probably defending in opposition to dementia,” the report stated.


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The variety of residents ages 65 and up is anticipated to proceed climbing in New York.
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In its evaluation, the Well being Division cited statistics from an unpublicized inside 2019 survey of 1,200 adults — performed earlier than the COVID-19 outbreak — that exposed discrimination in opposition to older adults.

The ballot discovered that 60% of youthful adults agreed that NYC is a spot the place older adults are valued members of the neighborhood, whereas solely 35% of New Yorkers believed that was the case.

In the meantime, practically 40% of individuals youthful than 65 stated talking slowly would assist older adults perceive issues, whereas solely 13% of seniors believed that was needed.

Practically a 3rd of youthful adults agree that older adults are too simply offended or interpret harmless remarks as being ageist, in comparison with simply 7% and 9% of senior residents respectively who believed that was the case.


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The ballot surveyed totally different views youthful New Yorkers have on aged folks.
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Practically 20% of youthful adults imagine older adults are a drain on the well being care system and the economic system, practically double the 11% of older adults who stated so.

Metropolis officers stated these examples constituted “hostile ageism.”


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Age discrimination might worsen the bodily and psychological well being circumstances of older New Yorkers and enhance medical prices.
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Elsewhere, 37% of youthful adults stated seniors must be protected against the cruel realities of society, double the 18% of adults who stated that was needed.

One-third of youthful respondents stated seniors are too outdated to do sure issues and whose emotions get harm once they fail, in comparison with 14% of older adults who agreed with the statements.


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New York’s inhabitants consists of 1.73 million seniors which are 60 years of age and over, in accordance to the Division for the Growing old.
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One other 29% of youthful respondents stated seniors shouldn’t be allowed to work and had already paid their debt to society, in comparison with 7% of older adults who stated the identical.

These findings expose “benevolent ageism,” well being officers stated.

“Mitigating ageism is vital to wholesome getting old in our metropolis, and might result in longer, extra productive lives for everyone. Regardless of the ubiquity of ageism on particular person and systemic ranges, consciousness and recognition are vital first steps in combating unfavourable stereotypes and assumptions about older adults,” the report stated.

The evaluation highlighted metropolis applications in place to assist Gotham’s older New Yorkers and counter ageism.

For instance, the division drafted particular COVID steering for these 65 and older and visited home-bound residents in the course of the metropolis’s vaccination marketing campaign, so they might get their pictures.

Age was thought of a threat issue for COVID-19.

Well being officers stated in addition they work carefully with the Division for the Growing old to curb ageism and create alternatives for older adults to thrive and age of their neighborhoods and just lately printed an anti-ageism information with the Division of Training to show college students about age-based discrimination.

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