{"id":19074,"date":"2021-11-05T07:37:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T11:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19074"},"modified":"2021-11-05T07:37:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T11:37:14","slug":"covid-hit-us-over-the-head-with-a-two-by-four-addressing-ageism-with-urgency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19074","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Covid Hit Us Over the Head With a Two-by-Four\u2019: Addressing Ageism With Urgency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the World Health Organization announced a\u00a0global campaign to combat ageism\u00a0\u2014 discrimination against older adults that is pervasive and harmful but often unrecognized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must change the narrative around age and ageing\u201d and \u201cadopt strategies to counter\u201d ageist attitudes and behaviors, WHO concluded in a\u00a0major report\u00a0accompanying the campaign.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/covid-hit-us-over-the-head-with-a-two-by-four-addressing-ageism-with-urgency\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News) Earlier this year, the World Health Organization announced a\u00a0global campaign to combat ageism\u00a0\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19075,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19074\/revisions\/19075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}