HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ontario Human Rights Commission, Ontario Human Rights Code, Ageism
10 Apr 2016
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A one-sided exaggerated and usually prejudiced view of a group of class or people. Old people are always much weaker than young people. Senior ciizens always forget things and get confused a lot. Prejudice: being biased against someone or something; a negaive judgement formed beforehand without knowledge of the facts. Discriminaion: unfair treatment of a person or group based on prejudice. Prejudice against older people: phrase coined by robert butler; 1959, ontario human rights commission htp://www. ohrc. on. ca/en/ageism-and-age- discriminaion-fact-sheet. The ontario human rights code prohibits age discriminaion in: employment, housing accommodaion, goods, services and faciliies, contracts and membership in trade and vocaional associaions. Age discriminaion is oten not taken as seriously as other forms of discriminaion. However, it can have the same economic, social and psychological impact as any other form of discriminaion. A simpliied speech like baby talk that some people use when they speak to older people; it stems from stereotyping older people as slow-wited.
