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From youth-obsessed campaigns to AI-generated biases against older generations, it's time brands stopped ignoring the untapped potential of ageing audiences, TSLA's Ludovica Damonte opines.

Due to continued backlash over two ageist ads LinkedIn launched four months ago, the company quietly pulled them.

Chinese-American actress Joan Chen never dreamed she would become a film star. She talks about her journey, and working with directors such as David Lynch, Ang Lee and Bernardo Bertolucci.

“Mayor,” council member Deb White said, “Your actions have been hurtful and have led people to question whether our gestures to reach out to underrepresented communities are merely empty words.”

How does ageism manifest in the workplace?

Recently, special counsel Robert Hur released his report on Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents while he was Vice-President. The reaction to it reveals America’s age phobia

Don’t worry about President Joe Biden’s age or memory. Worry about how he has to confront ageism. Thanks to a certain Asian American special prosecutor named Robert Hur. | By Emil Guillermo Don’t worry about President Joe Biden’s age or memory. Worry about how he has to confront ageism. Thanks to a certain Asian American special prosecutor named Robert Hur. Hur went beyond and below the call of duty in political slander of the President. Hur’s investigation concluded: there would be no...

From the commentary, "We must change the language our society uses to describe older adults. ... Picking on older people doesn’t seem to stir the same type of outrage" as other identity insults.

The generational gap is ever widening thanks to social media fueling the fire. A millennial boss took to TikTok and admitted she's never hiring a boomer again because they are "too old to work" and don't understand technology. While it's possible the new hire wasn't qualified, her comments were ageist.

Meeting one’s “social relationship expectations” could be the key to happier aging.