In the interview, Margaret Morganroth Gullette discusses her motivation for writing 'American Eldercide' in response to the medical ageism highlighted during the COVID pandemic. She observed how hospital guidelines excluded older adults from access to critical resources like ventilators, marking a disturbing trend of age-based discrimination in healthcare that poses serious consequences for life and death. Gullette also explores how ageism intersects with other forms of oppression, including sexism and racism, creating a more compounded issue within society.
Medical ageism was...a matter of life and death.
I noticed that guidelines for access to ventilators...excluded older adults...It had just infiltrated the medical world.
It was probably what I like to call compound ageism, which means it is probably an admixture of sexism, racism, classism, and certainly ableism.
Ageism is almost always braided with racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of discrimination.
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