An online petition supported by the over-60s campaign group Silver Voices, which seeks to remove age restrictions for routine screenings for breast, bowel, and cervical cancers, has garnered nearly 100,000 signatures.
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Nearly all older adults (93%) have experienced some form of ageism in their everyday lives and this may have affected their health, according to researchers from the University of Michigan.
A recent study has found that those who say that they are victims of age discrimination are more likely to suffer from a range of physical and mental health problems.
A new study has suggested that there is a direct connection between how well we age and how we view old age. Those with a positive attitude toward old age are likely to live longer — up to eight years — than their more pessimistic counterparts. But how, as older people, we are treated by others also has a big impact.
Age Cymru is demanding that funding is ring-fenced to ensure that the Welsh Assembly Government’s strategy to tackle pensioner poverty, ill-health and age discrimination can be put into action.