Let’s cut out the ageism and the notion of getting ‘too old’ | READER COMMENTARY

As a gerontologist, I was dismayed and offended by the headline in The Baltimore Sun’s Life and Travel section, “Diamonds are forever: Senior softball program draws local players too stubborn to act their age” (April 21). This kind of statement that there is a right age for something or that people beyond a certain age are too old to do something is, in a word, ageist. Ageism is any kind of discrimination based on age, and this kind of discrimination is harmful to all of us. Words matter and seeing...