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Old age is the last stage of life. Alongside gender, class, and race, age also supposes a source of discrimination against many. Socially and culturally, age might determine many factors of someone’s life, and how it affects and limits the natural course of time in the human body. As with all -isms, ageism “is broadly defined as prejudice or discrimination against or in favor of any age group” (Ayalon & Tesch-Römer, 2018, p. 3). However, discrimination or favoritism on the ba