To be consulted is to be valued and consulting the older community makes practical sense. Ageing issues need to be reflected in the school curriculum. This would not only help to change attitudes but also alert people at an early age to the need to think and plan ahead. I would advocate that the Internet, for example, should be used to link students with older experts to facilitate problem solving, and to engage them and provide that sense of friendship and support, giving that sense of being worth something which young people want to communicate with them. Older people need to become more assertive because unfairness, misrepresentation and ageism must be challenged. In addition, the agenda of the aged must be put forward in any future proposed equality legislation.