ElderlyhealthKidneydisordersThe article reports on recent progresses in renal replacement therapy as of December 1, 2003 and discusses how ageism affects older people's access to available treatments. The need to avoid discrimination against older people in the provision of health or social services ...
We must begin to direct the experiences children have toward the development of positive attitudes toward all people including the elderly. When young children digest behaviors, images, and perceptions, they will begin to form attitudes that have a powerful influence on their present and future ...
AGEISM: The definition of ageism is straightforward–it is discrimination and prejudice against people based on their age, and is directed toward the very young as well as those who are considered old or elderly. Ageism is structural or systemic in our social world, meaning people learn it and...
Juvenile ageism: Unrecognized prejudice and discrimination against the young Ageism is a form of prejudice and discrimination as virulent as racism and as pervasive as sexism. It has been described as it affects the elderly but has ... JC Westman - 《Child Psychiatry Hum Dev》 被引量: 14发表...
With the increasing population of older adults, ageism is an obstacle to health equity and can negatively affect older adults’ quality of life and nursing care. This study aims to examine the level of ageism and the factors associated with ageism among nursing college students, who will become...
housing shortage, labor trends, and “underinvestment in things like schools.” Not only are these folks living too long, they have the temerity to own things. “What’s theirs is theirs…. there is no great mechanism by which to wrest control over the resources of an elderly person.” ...
While noticing someone's age is not inherently offensive, acting on age-based stereotypes clearly works against the individual and often goes unchallenged by mainstream society. A central assumption in this paper is that the way we frame ageism and intergenerational relations significantly affects ...
However,throughoutthischapterand con-sistentwiththespiritof thisbook,we willusetheterm ageismto referspecificallytoneg-ative attitudes andbehaviortoward theelderly, focusingexclusively onthismosttroublingandconsequentialformof ageism.(2002, 27 [emphasis mine])Likesocialpsychology, gerontologyand agestudieshave...
“the marital status and living arrangements of the elderly are closely tied to levels of social support, economic well-being, and the availability of caregivers” (Jacobsen et al., 2011, p. 4). The importance of this population’s general health status is, of course, self-explanatory. ...
“Ageismtypically involves any attitude or behavior that negatively categorizes the elderly based either on partial truth (often taken out of context) or on outright myths of the aging process” (pg. 142). There are nine basic myths that show cause to an individual having the label ofageism:...