Health: We elderly needn't be an age-old problem
My eye was drawn to a headline in the local paper, “Elderly man knocked down by car”. Even by Aberdeen standards, it was a pretty slow news day, but what grabbed my attention was the fact that the “elderly” man was my junior by eight years. Why was it necessary to describe the unfortunate chap as elderly at all? If he’d been 20 years younger would the headline have been, “Middle aged man knocked down by car”? It was written to give the impression of a poor old codger who shouldn’t haven’t been out on his own. The writer knew nothing of the victim, but he/she was unwittingl...
Source: heraldscotland.com