Not only can movie portrayals of older people make it tougher for them to get and keep good jobs, inaccurate and ageist depictions of older people can also weigh on their health and morale.
That's according to research from Humana Inc. and the University of Southern California's (USC) Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, which evaluates the effects negative portrayals of seniors on film may have on aging adults in America.
The short version: movies still dump on older people. Dr. Stacy L. Smith, director of the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, led the film portion of the research, which analyzed how seniors age 60 and over are portrayed in the 100 top-grossing films from 2016.
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