Today, my group- Chloe, Sallie, and I- presented on Austin, Texas’s first senior job fair. In our Powerpoint Presentation, we explained that elders face job discrimination due to society’s stigma of elders being incapable of working compared to their younger counterparts. This job fair would allow seniors to have a fairer chance of being employed. The job fair consists of 35 employers- including the state’s popular grocery chain H-E-B market, who are looking to hire elders. Our class felt that age discrimination is most prevalent in technology due to the fact that elders are perceived as not being able to keep up to the advancing technology and in retail where younger individuals are preferred to handling customers over elders. Our class also pointed out the media’s significant contribution to age discrimination as well as the media’s bias for women to look younger than men. It is unfortunate that everyone who lives beyond 50 will experience some level or form of age discrimination, as it is a natural process that all long-living adults have to encounter.
The second group- Sabrina and Alisa, shared the research that African Americans have a higher chance of being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. There are structural and systemic discrimination that contributes to factors of Alzheimer’s including but not limited to the wage discrimination that could lead to poorer nutrition due to the expensiveness of higher quality food, the limited long-hour requiring unskilled jobs available due to the inadequate schools in certain areas, and the overall stress they face as a member of their race.
The second group- Sabrina and Alisa, shared the research that African Americans have a higher chance of being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. There are structural and systemic discrimination that contributes to factors of Alzheimer’s including but not limited to the wage discrimination that could lead to poorer nutrition due to the expensiveness of higher quality food, the limited long-hour requiring unskilled jobs available due to the inadequate schools in certain areas, and the overall stress they face as a member of their race.