Now studies are finding that the insults can have health consequences, especially if people mutely accept the attitudes behind them, said Becca Levy, an associate professor of epidemiology and psychology at Yale University, who studies the health effects of such messages on elderly people.

Oh dear LORD! So we're destroyed the younger generation by coddling them, and now we have to do it to the elderly? "My feelings are hurt! It's a health condition! WAAAAA!"

In ‘Sweetie’ and ‘Dear,’ a Hurt for the Elderly