{"id":4030,"date":"2017-09-25T10:57:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T08:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autismeurope.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=4030"},"modified":"2017-09-25T10:58:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T08:58:59","slug":"eu-contribution-to-who-global-campaign-against-ageism-brussels-belgium","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.autismeurope.org\/fr\/event\/eu-contribution-to-who-global-campaign-against-ageism-brussels-belgium\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Contribution to WHO Global campaign against ageism. Brussels, Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The existence of stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination towards older adults &#8211; commonly referred to as ageism \u2013 imposes barriers to developing good policy on ageing. Ageism also hinders older people\u2019s ability to do the things that they value and aspire to. Stereotyping affects how people think about older people; prejudice affects how people feel about older people; and discrimination affects how people and institutions act towards older people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">According to the World Health Organisation, ageism is highly prevalent worldwide and remains unchallenged in society largely because it is socially accepted and entrenched in institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">This event, co-organized by AGE Platform Europe with the support of the delegation of the Basque Country, the European Commission and the World Health Organization,\u00a0will be an opportunity to raise the visibility of the issue and to examine what more can be done at EU level to combat ageism and to contribute to the WHO global campaign to combat ageism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Target audience:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Policy makers at EU level, national, regional and local authorities, civil society organisations, service providers, public health organisations<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AGE Platform Europe is co-organizing with the support of the delegation of the Basque Country, the European Commission and the World Health Organization, an event to raise the visibility of the issue of stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination towards older adults, examine what more can be done at EU level to combat ageism and contribute to the WHO global campaign against ageism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":4042,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-4030","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autismeurope.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autismeurope.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autismeurope.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autismeurope.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.autismeurope.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4040,"href":"https:\/\/www.autismeurope.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4030\/revisions\/4040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autismeurope.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autismeurope.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autismeurope.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4030"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autismeurope.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=4030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}