The aging of society has not significantly changed our perception of the elderly. Ageism is widespread in Western societies (Dionigi, et al, 2011). Older people are seen as boring, grumpy, irritable, weak, debilitated, sad and, above all, cognitively impaired. These negative stereotypes may be enabled by older adults who negatively self-stereotype (Dionigi, et al, 2011) and are also found among specialist healthcare professionals (e.g., Cowan, Fitzpatrick, Roberts, & While, 2004). Predominantly dominant is the image in relation to which the elderly are more ineffective than the young. However, in a variety of domains, older adults are inclined to perform similarly and, at times, even perform better than younger people (Coudin & Alexopoulos, 2010). For example, nearly 40 per cent of Canada's sitting judges have reached senior status and may be retiring. However, these senior judges are crucial to the justice system and, facing reduced workloads, carry out almost 20% of judicial work (Coudin and Alexopoulos, 2010). This information is also consistent with research on cognitive aging, which demonstrates that reasoning about complex issues pertinent to everyday life – what some call wisdom – shows no decline with age. (However, these stereotypes possess of influence as well as affecting the general functioning of the older person, the following essay describes the effects of stereotypes on the older person/person and how these stereotypes can limit a person's access to employment, medical care, or autonomy of age stereotypes, there are two types of stereotypes. it is a negative stereotype and a positive stereotype However, older generations are often...... half of the article ......rontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and social sciences, 66(5), 547-556.Kotter. -Grühn, D., & Hess, T.M. (2012).The impact of age stereotypes on self-perceptions of aging across the adult lifespan The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 67(5), 563-. 571.Marques, S., Lima, M. L., Abrams, D., & Swift, H. (2014). Will to live in older adults' medical decisions: Immediate and delayed effects of aging stereotypes. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.North, M. S., & Fiske, S. T. (2012). A young person in difficulty? Ageism and its potential intergenerational roots. Psychological Bulletin, 138(5), 982.Sindi, S., Juster, R.P., Wan, N., Nair, N.P.V., Ying Kin, N., & Lupien, S.J. (2012). Depressive symptoms, cortisol, and cognition during human aging: The role of negative perceptions of aging. Stress, 15(2), 130-137.