North East Forum on Ageing

Centre for Aging Better ‘Aging Attitudes’ quiz results

We asked, and you answered!
We’ve had an amazing response to our ageing attitudes quiz – over 5,500 people have already answered the quiz questions! Thank you.   

Some of the results included;

* More than one in four people hold accidentally ageist views 
* A further one in five hold ageist views that indicate a bleak perspective on ageing 
* More than half of people admit using ageist phrases such as ‘you look good, for your age’ 
* Almost one in ten people believe older workers should retire to make way for younger people  
* One in seven people dread their milestone birthdays   

We are sharing these results with the media this week to provoke further discussion around ageism.

You can find full details here