But the road ahead is still a long one. Ageism in healthcare—and other aspects of our collective lives—depends on our own capacity to recognize internalized prejudices and uproot them at their source in ourselves. Until then, we’ll continue to see the illness, early death, isolation, and...
Ageism in health care Shortt S. Shortt,S. - 《Journal of Health Services Research & Policy》 被引量: 18发表: 2001年 Researching Ageism in Health-Care and Long Term Care The literature across different fields defines ageism ambiguously and widely covers a span of intolerant knowledge, values,...
In healthcare it refers to providing less favorable treatment to persons because of their chronological age. Like racism or sexism negative discrimination on the basis of age is unjustifiable. In principle it can be directed against young people but in practice it is usually directed against old ...
Ageing as a phase of human life is connected with a number of specific problems, originating from the natural alternations in the physical, psychical, social and economic status. During the past years the issue of the age discrimination is getting more and more actual and pressing, significant ...
Ageism is endemic in society and in healthcare settings. It exerts both overt and subtle effects on older patients, their families, clinicians, and trainees. Ageism is defined as stereotyping or discrimination against older people based on their age. Similar to racism and sexism, ageism involves ...
In this context, this study has two objectives: (1) to replicate the results of previous studies that reported differential support of medical treatment depending on the patient's age in a different healthcare provider population (nurses rather than physicians); and (2) to determine whether ...
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Ageism is a complex and prevalent phenomenon in most cultures and is associated with negative consequences in different contexts such as the workplace, the healthcare and welfare systems, and others [3]. Although the term ageism was first defined as “prejudice by one age group toward other age...
Objective: This study aims to investigate the attitudes of intensive care nurses, who play an active role in elderly care, towards ageism. Materials and Me... S Ersoy,S Palantken - 《Sdu Journal of Health Science Institute》 被引量: 0发表: 2023年 Intensive care units and the oldest-old:...
(2) This is particularly relevant as health care spending for individuals over the age of 65 years in Canada is at least 4.4 times higher than for individuals between 15-64 years of age.(3) Individuals aged 65 years and older also accounted for 21% of ER visits in Canada in 2014-2015...