The development of urban society, industrialization, and later on post-industrial society strongly changed the attitudes toward the elderly, establishing new sets of values, norms, and institutional standards. Ageism could be defined as language regularly and persistently characterizing older people in negative terms. It is the “stereotype and prejudice leading the discrimination against people based on their age. Ageism marginalizes and excludes older people in their communities and that’s the reason why it’s a widespread practice that has harmful effects on the health of older adults” 

No country for old men: five prevalent stereotypes affecting the life of the elderly “That is no country for old men” is the first line of William Butler Yeats’ poem “Sailing to Byzantium” (Yeats WB. Sailing to Byzantium, poem available from https://poets.org/poem/sailing-byzantium). Although the poem was written in 1928, the line became famous only in 2007, when the Coen brothers used it as a title of their film.

Article published by Stjepan Orešković in Croatian Medical Journal can be accessed through (http://www.reflectionsturkey.com/2020/05/no-country-for-old-men-five-pr…)