Examines how the 1978 Amendments to the Age Discrimination in Employment Act will affect the future labor force. Discusses how retirement age policies hurt older workers, changes that are expected to occur, how pension benefits affect the older work force, and why a linked employment/retirement policy is urged. (Editor/CT)

The Age Discrimination Act of 1975 was premised upon a fundamental but doubtful analogy between race discrimination and age discrimination. The law is thus inconsistent, confusing, divisive, and poses practical problems regarding interpretation, enforcement, and resource allocation. (Author/GC)

Examines the remedies available under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. Available from Baylor Law Review, B.U. Station, Box 6262, Waco, Texas 76706; $4.00 per copy. (IRT)

An interview with an elderly person now living in Miami provides valuable insights on some of the problems of organizing for social and political changes and the pressing concerns of senior citizens. (Author/AM)

Vignettes of depressed females aged 42 or 72 were reviewed by 414 psychologists and 293 counselors (38% response). Most correctly identified depression regardless of client age. The elder client was considered to be less able to develop a therapeutic relationship, to have a poor prognosis, and to be less acceptable as a client. (Contains 54…

To examine staff selection within the context of federal age and race discrimination in employment legislation, high school principals screen hypothetical job candidates of varying chronological age and national origin for either a teacher or an assistant principal position. Finds the screening decisions are influenced by age and national origin.…

Extends the current literature by broadening Social Identity Theory (SIT) to the instructional context. Demonstrates that students who mention their instructor's age in an open-ended description of an ideal instructor or a disfavored instructor are more likely to be high age-group identifiers, but students describing an ideal instructor imagined a…

A study examined 197 college students' impressions of memory skills and personality of older adults and the relation of these impressions to clothing cleanliness and condition. It found that clothing cleanliness and coordination affected attitudes and also interacted with the gender of the older person to affect those impressions. (JOW)

Notes how Western society fears and resists growing old, and points out that educators, along with the rest of society, have little to do with the elderly. Challenges literacy educators to include the elderly and foster connections between the new and the old, and the young and the old. Suggests reading the Foxfire books for inspiration. (SR)

Age discrimination in the workplace is widespread and often based on stereotypes. Research has demonstrated that older workers learn and perform well. Adult educators should eliminate ways in which educational practices perpetuate ageism, raise awareness of it in the workplace, and help older workers continue learning. (SK)

For a host of reasons, in the new economy experience and the skills that come with age now count for less and less. Companies are hiring and promoting more managers who are under 40, and older workers are being let go. (Author)

Global challenges associated with the ageing workforce include lower levels of education and negative attitudes of older workers towards learning and covert age discrimination in the workplace. This report discusses initial findings from a survey of older workers employed in regional areas in Australia. The older workers surveyed were…

Purpose: Older adults living with HIV infection may be doubly stigmatized, as they are branded by both age as well as HIV status. Through semistructured interviews, this study sought to examine whether older adults with HIV/AIDS experience both ageism and HIV stigma and how those experiences manifest in their lives. Design and Methods: This was a…

Included in this document are the texts of the Older Americans Act of 1965, the Older Americans Act Amendments of 1984, the Older Americans Amendments of 1975, and the Comprehensive Older Americans Act Amendments of 1978. The text of the Older Americans Act of 1965 contains seven titles: (1) Declaration of Objectives and Definitions; (2)…

Children's prejudice against the aged was studied in terms of their responses to an attitude scale and measures of their social interaction with aged compared to nonaged confederates. Findings indicated significant levels of ageist prejudice among six- and eight-year-olds but not in four-year-olds. Eight-year-olds had highest prejudice scores.…