- For the Cicero and other thinkers during Ancient Greece, old age began at 50.
- For Shakespeare, old was sixty-five.
- During the Civil War, the average age of Whites was thirty.
- The life expectancy of African slaves at birth in the United States was 21 to 22.
- Life expectancy of Whites was 40 to 43.
- Slaves of all ages in the antebellum South were required to work.
- Among countries outside the U.S., Cuba has the oldest population.
- There is no one characteristic that all people possess at a given age.
- In 2021, data show that White women live longer than Black women.
- In 2021, White men , as a group, live longer than Black women.
- Black women are among the majority in assisted living communities.
- Older slaves were treated with kindness because of their age.
- People with a strong religious faith live longer than those without a strong religious faith.
- People who live in rural areas live longer than people in urban areas.
- Women did not live longer than men during famines and epidemics.
- Black Americans are not ageist because of what our ancestors experienced during slavery.
- According to studies, children see gender before they see age.
- The physical world is, by definition, age-friendly.
- Sixty-five is the legislatively mandated retirement age for all citizens in the U.S.
- Every elder is elderly.
- Black women wear the addition of years to their lives better than do White women.
- The more recent an incident, the more clearly an elder remembers it.
- Children see age before they see race or gender.
- The fastest-growing age group in the U.S. is 75+.
- When the Social Security Act was passed, life expectancy In the United States was 75.
- As a group, women are more challenged by physical aging than men.
- Growing older is more challenging for White women than for Black women.
- Ageism is not a problem in America.
- Because of their age, older slaves were spared many of the abuses of slavery.
- The Age Discrimination Act rendered mandatory retirement before 70 illegal.
- Mandatory retirement in the U.S. is now illegal except for police, firefighters, air traffic controllers, pilots, and nurses.
- An “aging staff’ is an age-sensitive word.
- Regardless of their race, Black people think they are not ageist because elders are members of our famliy, and we love them!
- Biomedicalization of age is not a twenty-first century problem.
- Older Black women are not sexually desired and, therefore, they are not raped.
- Elder Law came into existence during the Presidency of George W. Bush.
- Shirley Chisholm ran for vice president when she was in her late thirties.
- President Obama established the White Council on Aging.
- Fannie Lou Hamer and Rosa Parks were in their twenties when they were involved in the civil rights movement of the sixties.
- Stacey Abrams founded #blacklivesmatter.
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