Older Workers Frozen Out

It is a fact that older workers are at a competitive disadvantage versus younger workers for any given open position. This article gathers responses from a "panel of experts" as to why that is so. A lot of the ideas seem ridiculous (tougher to manage?), but the ones that strike me most forcefully are: the expectation in the future of decreasing productivity of an older worker vs increasing for a younger, and (perceived) higher health care costs.