The number of people forced to retire at 65 quadruples in a year as employers take advantage of laws during the recession, charities warned.
Older women with breast cancer are less likely to receive surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy to treat it, a charity has warned.
Presenter Lisa Aziz is leaving ITV for ''personal reasons'', it has been announced.
Overhauling the outdated laws that govern the care provided to elderly and disabled people will save unnecessary red tape, delays and litigation, and public money.
A senior Catholic police officer is to take a case against the PSNI alleging religious and age discrimination.
An EU funded research project is looking at why the elderly are excluded from clincial trials and is working on a charter that opposes discrimination against the elderly.
Donald Steele, who has died aged 76, was a leading campaigner for improvements in social policy for older people. From 1993 onwards, Don was director of social policy for the Association of Retired and People over 50.
The insurance industry is discriminating against older people with half of motor insurers refusing to offer quotes to people aged over 80, a charity has said.
A serial litigant is believed to have earned thousands of pounds by bombarding employers with claims of ageism simply because they used the words “school leaver” or “recent graduate” in job advertisements.
An employment tribunal condemned the Prison Service for discriminating against a 22 year old woman.
A BBC presenter who was dropped from the corporation’s rural affairs programme along with other women in their forties and fifties has become the first broadcaster to sue the BBC for age discrimination.
The European Commission on Thursday sent a letter of formal notice to Greece calling it to comply with European Court ruling concerning equality of retirement age between men-women.
Liberal Democrat Euro MP, Liz Lynne, a long-time campaigner against age discrimination, has welcomed a call by the Equality Commission to abolish compulsory retirement ages.
Merged charity rejects government's case for limiting scope of discrimination ban.
Car insurance quotes are being denied to those over 80 years old, Age Concern and Help the Aged has discovered in new research.
Holiday companies and insurance firms will be able to avoid a ban on age discrimination in goods and services, the Government has announced.
Millions of older people will be able to lengthen their working lives under proposals from the Equalities and Human Rights Commission to scrap the compulsory retirement age of 65.
Older workers have fared relatively well during this recession. That’s just as well, because with dwindling pension pots and increased life expectancy, there will soon be far more of them. But are organisations prepared for more people working longer?
A policy of health testing older taxi drivers in Aberdeen could be revoked because of discrimination fears.
Gurkha veterans fail in test case claiming the MoD discriminated against them on grounds of nationality and age.