I see the term “elderly” being used a lot in reference to the #coronavirus and I wanted to remind everyone that it’s a pretty insensitive term. Let’s use better terminology going forward, like “Older Adult,” for example.
For even more, click the article.https://www.aarp.org/disrupt-aging/stories/ideas/info-2018/ageist-language-glossary.html …
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I'm 78 years old. I appreciate your sensitivity to "ageist" language, but I think you have gone off the rails on this subject. ELDERLY is perfectly acceptable to me. I find OLDER ADULT to be more insulting.
I appreciate that and I will gladly refer to people as they prefer. That said, I spent quite a while studying aging and using the term “elderly” is generally frowned upon. Also, the AARP article that I included finds it to be offensive.
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And I reject your assumed authority. I too can claim extensive time with elderly, since I live in an elders home of some 227 alert articulate older people.
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No assumption. Just a PhD and more than a decade of research/publications in peer-reviewed academic journals.
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