What is Elderspeak and Why Is It Disrespectful?
On one occasion, she had corrected a supermarket cashier: “I told him, ‘I am not young, and I think it’s an insult to call attention to my age at all,’” said Tack. “He did seem chagrined, so I tempered it with something like, ‘It makes me feel bad that all you can see is my age.’