1. WG 3: Media and Ageism IS1402 AGEISM: A MULTI-NATIONAL, INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE Working-Group MEDIA Plans for this year

2. Handbook contributions Handbook of Ageism: contributions from our WG: 5 members Interventions against Ageism in Media Policies Gendered Ageism Researching Ageism in a Cross-Cultural Perspective Ageism in the Media

3. MedieKultur Special Issue Call

4. Presentations Ageism: Media discourses during the Portuguese legislative elections Sep –Oct 2015 by Inês Amaral 1.Two major digital newspapers 2.Interactions between politics and media within the context of austerity measures 3.Predominance of retirement and pension issues 4.Visibility but misrepresentation

5. Leisure and aging: A way to promote autonomy - Interventions developed in the sociosanitary system in the autonomous region of Extremadura (Spain) by Jonathan Gómez Raja

7. INTERVENTIONS 1.HEALTHY CHESS 2.READERS ASSOCIATION PROGRAM IN SENIOR CENTERS 3.LITERARY AWARDS FOR SENIORS (“EXPERIENCE AND LIFE”) 4.SENIORS OLYMPICS 5.SILVER DAY 6.SENIORS FOR NATURE (“NATURALMENTE MAYOR”) 7.PREVENTING FALLS 8.“EXPERIENCES FOR LIFE” (INTERGENERACIONAL PROGRAM) 9.MUSIC THERAPY 10.MEMORY TRAINING PROGRAM 11.DOCTORATE PROGRAM ON SENIOR SUBJECT

8. Training intercoder reliability Ageing Well? A cross-country analysis of the ways older persons are visually represented at websites of associations for older people. Dimensions: collectivism- individualism, femininity-masculinity, alone- together, healthy-frail Countries: Romania, Poland, UK, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain

9. Old frail 9

10. Old healthy 10

11. Old Masculinity

12. COST Action 1402 – Ageism from a Multi-national, Interdisciplinary Perspective Mid-Term Conference, Eindhoven, September 19-20 2016 Fontys University of Applied Sciences – Fontys Hogescholen Campus Rachelsmolen – Building R5 Rachelsmolen 1, 5612 MA Eindhoven www.fontys.nl

13. WG 3 Contribution to Mid-Term Conference: Designing images to counter ageism