Bibliographic record
Abstract
The International Longevity Centre (ILC) Canada is a human rights organization that advocates for the needs of older people.They are part of a global alliance of 17 countries that was the brainchild of the famous geriatrician, Dr. Robert Butler, who also coined the term "ageism" back in 1969.He defined ageism as "a combination of prejudicial attitudes towards older people, old age and aging itself".While scholars may use different definitions of ageism there is one universal truth.Ageism is an "ism" like no other because it is related to a universal condition, and while the evil nature of all prejudice is ignorance and hostility, ageism has the extra bonus of creating self-hate for the old, while for the young it is a prejudice against their future selves.Like all isms "ageism" permeates and destroys, it belittles and patronizes, and it results in the loss of autonomy, and dignity.It creates barriers to health, financial resources, education, employment and social and economic justice.What makes ageism more perplexing is that it works against one of the greatest outcomes of the 20th century, which was the incredible increase in life expectancy.This should in fact be a cause for celebration.While there are many ways to address ageism, this paper will argue that a single instrument, a new United Nations Convention on the Rights of Older Persons (UN Convention), is one effective way to ensure all people enjoy their rights in their later years.The argument for UN Convention on the Rights of Older Persons can be illustrated by both anecdotal evidence and through academic research.A United Nations convention could be transformative, because research-based evidence is conclusive, conventions work because they better the lives of rights recipients.A UN Convention would view older people as rights holders by codifying their rights.It would elaborate on the duties of States towards older persons and allow for better monitoring of action at a national level.A Convention would contribute to the political will for positive change.It would also establish international standards and monitoring of action taken at a national level.1.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".