“…On the one hand, as individuals grow older they bring with them relations of inequality they have experienced throughout their lives and that hold structuring effects (Abramson & Portacolone, ; Ferraro & Shippee, ). This leads to differences, for example, in the experiences of diverse sub‐populations, such as older women and men (Krekula, ; Russell, ), among migrants (Grenier, Phillipson, et al, ), and among members of racialized groups (Jackson, Govia, & Sellers, ). On the other hand, an important distinction between age relations and other forms of inequality is that all people who live long enough will experience “old age” in the chronological sense and, to some extent, share the disadvantages associated with ageism in a youth‐oriented culture (Abramson & Portacolone, ).…”