Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Ageism (was re: Cohousing-L Digest, Vol 229, Issue 18)

[Lisa Kuntz (lisa.kuntz]

Hmmmm.....well, that is true, for sure!

And the questionnaires leaving no option beyond "65+" does seem like
ageism, which I had never thought of in that way.

We tend to focus on what most affects us, I think.


On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 10:26 AM Sharon Villines via Cohousing-L <
cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:

> > On Feb 22, 2023, at 6:02 PM, Lisa Kuntz <
> lisa.kuntz [at] daybreakcohousing.org> wrote:
> >
> > I clearly missed some important parts of the convo!
> >
> > What does this mean? * 80 is not 65 just as 65 is not 50. Or 50 is not
> 35*
>
> This was from one of my posts in which I said since I was over 80 I no
> longer had an age category. Questionnaires and surveys normally stop at 65
> or 65+. I was pointing out that 80 is not the same as 65. No one will ever
> know what is characteristic of people aged 80, if they never ask for
> anything older than 65.
>
> And similarly, being 65 is different than being 50, and 50 is just as
> different from 35.
>
> Sharon
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