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The term, other than being ageist, has misandrist connotations in the West. Dotard: A weak older person with limited mental faculties, or a mentally disabled older person. Dried up: [2] Slang for a sexually-inactive older person, often used to refer to post-menopausal women.
Gerontocracy is a form of oligarchical rule in which an entity is ruled by leaders significantly older than most of the adult population. [16] Chronocentrism is the belief that a certain state of humanity is superior to all previous and/or future times.
The term has been variously applied to middle-aged women who pursue romantic or sexual relations with men more than ten to fifteen years younger than they are. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Occasionally, the slang term "puma" (itself a literal synonym for cougar) is used to denote a woman under the age of 40 who prefers to date significantly younger ...
More than 1,000 older Americans shared with Business Insider their biggest regrets in life. ... the median 55-year-old respondent said they had less than $50,000 in retirement savings. Brunswick ...
10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman is an October 2014 video created for Hollaback! by Rob Bliss Creative featuring 24-year-old actress Shoshana Roberts. The video shows Roberts walking through various neighborhoods of New York City , wearing jeans, a black crewneck T-shirt, with a hidden camera recording her from the front.
OWL - The Voice of Women 40+ was founded as the Older Women's League by Tish Sommers and Laurie Shields, following the White House Mini-Conference on Older Women in Des Moines, Iowa in October 1980. The conference, called "Growing Numbers, Growing Force," addressed three main concerns: ensuring adequate income, health concerns of older women ...
The effects of weight bias get worse when they’re layered on top of other types of discrimination. A 2012 study found that African-American women are more likely to become depressed after internalizing weight stigma than white women. Hispanic and black teenagers also have significantly higher rates of bulimia.
Elder abuse (also called elder mistreatment, senior abuse, abuse in later life, abuse of older adults, abuse of older women, and abuse of older men) is a single or repeated act, or lack of appropriate action, occurring within any relationship where there is an expectation of trust, which causes harm or distress to an older person. [1]