Carol’s family wants to take her mother, Martha, out to eat for her eightieth birthday. Carol suggested a new restaurant that everyone is trying, but her daughter said, "That’s not the kind of place to take Grandma. I don’t think she would be comfortable there. Where do all the old people eat?" Her daughter is demonstrating:

Ageism is one of the stereotyping which involves discrimination based on age. The term "ageism" was coined by Robert Neil Butler in 1969. The discrimination revolves around restricting people of a certain age from doing certain works according to their age. The beliefs and attitudes are built based on the age which later takes the form of discrimination and prejudice. In the given case, Carol's daughter is demonstrating ageism when she starts to discriminate the place for her grandmother according to her age.