Hollywood needs to “wise up,” asserts the state of California’s leading advocate for older adults. The California Commission on Aging recently convened authorities from the entertainment industry and the field of aging to strategize how to improve the portrayal of…
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Older adults are dramatically under-represented across the most popular television series -- making up less than 10 percent of all speaking characters. According to a 2017 study titled “Seniors on the Small Screen: Aging in Popular Television Content,” conducted by…
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This is an old story with a new plot twist: Add to Hollywood’s well-documented biases against woman and minorities a new category: older adults. More confirmation than revelation, ageism exists in the entertainment industry, according to a comprehensive study of…
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