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Paper Instructions:

Locate three examples of ageism in society and describe these, with artifacts if available. You can find these examples in newspapers, magazines, radio and television, movies and everyday life situations. For each example:

Describe in detail what took place and why it is an example of ageism.
Identify the negative belief or assumption about aging and/or older people that your example reflects.
Explain why each example is ageist and suggest ways of avoiding these situations in the future.

It is important that you give three examples of ageism, and follow the question prompts given in the assignment description for each of your three examples. The number of words should be between 500 and 1000 words for the whole assignment. Please note that for this assignment ageism is considered as “negative or positive stereotypes, prejudice and/or discrimination against (or to the advantage of) elderly people on the basis of their chronological age or on the basis of a perception of them as being ‘old’ or ‘elderly’” (Iversen, Larsen & Solem, 2009, p. 15). Also, we refer to people older than 65 as older adults.

You can structure your paper in five paragraphs (introduction + three paragraphs on three selected artifacts and their critical analyses + concluding paragraph).

You can select your artifacts from any sources (everyday life, community center brochures, TV ads, magazines, films) where older adults are victims of ageism or are treated negatively, and can provide them as an appendix of your paper (should not be counted into the word limit). Please, analyze your explanation in light of the relevant course readings.

In addition, I had a question about referencing weekly modules. It is better to avoid referencing weekly lectures because they are just lectures, like any other that you would have in a face-to-face environment. You are encouraged to reference articles if you want to make some claims or any other source for examples of ageism. However, you can refer to the weekly lectures by using: "text" (Kaufman, Week ?, EDUC351), or without quotation marks if it's not a direct quotation. For referencing external sources, such as websites, TV shows, etc., check the rules in the APA style manual.