Voorbeelden van agism

• Combating agism in health care on a bio-medical model,48 the need to address the holistic care needs of this client group must be recognized.

• Legislation is advocated to eradicate agism with respect to the resuscitation status of older people.

• The agism that currently seems to be an inherent part of the clinical trial process could be tackled legislatively.

• Agism is the discriminatory concept which defines older people as different from the rest of society.

• The issue of service refusal then becomes interwoven with broader s ociocultural contexts, not least t he ideology of agism.

• Choices and opportunities are cut adrift as the wedge of agism is hammered into place (on one's 65-year birthday, for example).

• The wedge of agism reduces older people to physiologic machines and reduces medicine to a commodity bought and sold, practised in a mechanical format,3 devoid of humanistic qualities.

• Agism in the form of age-based health care allocation fosters the separation of the physiological part of a patient from the person who is the patient.

• In the public sphere, agism is demonstrated by the prevalence of derogatory humour and disrespect directed at older people, and the belief that the older population is a burden.

• I am concerned about the implications for age, agism and the elderly.

• I wish to raise the subject of agism.

• Does not that encourage all the worst trends in the employment market in terms of agism?

• Yes, the provision is an example of agism, which is reflected, in a sense, throughout the system.

• That need can be met only by legislation against agism, in a form that will demonstrate society's disapproval of such morally unacceptable behaviour.

• I have acknowledged that legislation against agism would be difficult, if not impossible, to enforce.