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The government is expected to announce a new bill to simplify and improve discrimination laws within the next few weeks.
One of the considerations for the single equality bill is the extension of age discrimination laws to cover goods and services.
Current age discrimination legislation only applies to the workplace, whereas racial, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation and religious discrimination laws extend protection to dealings with suppliers of goods and services.
A spokesman for the equality office told Workplace Law Network that the extension of the legislation is a possibility.
"It is being looked at; no decisions have been made, but it is very much being looked at as part of the equality bill," he said.
A change in the legislation would apply to public services such as the NHS and could have an impact on services such as insurance in the private sector.
In a House of Commons debate on age equality last year, Don Touhig MP said: "Older people come up against the barrier of ageism when they try to obtain goods and services that young people take for granted."
