This issue unpacks some underlying issues in ageism  terms within age studies, including elderly, senior citizen, age-friendly, boomer, dementia sufferer, functionality, population, and vulnerability. The journal remains committed to its initial mission to promote cross-disciplinary, critical investigations of the experiences of age, aging, and later life, as seen through the lens of the humanities and arts.

Age Culture Humanities An interdisciplinary Journal

This issue unpacks the meaning- & underlying ageism & ableism- of contested terms within age studies, including elderly, senior citizen, age-friendly, boomer, dementia sufferer, functionality, population, & vulnerability. Age, Culture, Humanities is the humanities and arts journal that publishes scholarship on topics that investigate the critical intersections of the arts and humanities with the aging process and with age across the lifespan. Age, Culture, Humanities promotes cross-disciplinary, critical investigations of the experiences of age, aging, and older age, as seen through the lens of the humanities and arts. The goals are to consider age as a category of identity, advance understanding of the aging process and of age differences across the lifespan, interrogate cultural articulations of aging and older age, and generate innovative, engaging scholarly approaches to the study of age and aging in the humanities.


Using data from the Elevate Aging Project, a partnership of the California Assisted Living Association and Elder Care Alliance, this language use and style guide identifies words and phrases that perpetuate ageist views and suggests replacements that promote positive views of aging. In addition, this guide covers the use of an inclusive, person-centered philosophy which should be kept in mind when writing about older adults.

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Guidelines for replacing ageist words & phrases with language that's positive, precise, and person-centered

Elevate Aging Through Language: A Usage and Style Guide

Age scholar Andrea Charise explains what makes this metaphor so ageist & and so powerful

Rising Tide, Grey Tsunami: Charting the History of a Dangerous Metaphor

It's time to stop. stop discrimination. stop stereotype. stop negativity. stop ageism.

Focused on changing language, improving services & making cities accessible for all ages

STOPageism

Analyzing language to reveal damaging views of aging, from the UK's Centre for Aging Better

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