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23 Μαΐ 2018 · The literature across different fields defines ageism ambiguously and widely covers a span of intolerant knowledge, values, attitudes and behaviors towards older adults or more generally toward people of a certain age. In this chapter we provide an overview of how...
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For those of us working in post-acute and long-term care settings, unconscious ageism is something that can slip by us unnoticed — after all, many of us love working with older adults, and the last thing we believe is that we are ageist. To help unpack my own ageism, I found the following three concepts helpful.
23 Μαΐ 2018 · In this chapter we provide an overview of how ageism is defined, measured, and assessed in health care and long-term care.
Background: Ageism in long-term care is pervasive, but it is not easy to define, to identify and to fight it in practice. These difficulties could be overcome if we develop research capable to conceptualize, detect, measure, and understand the multidimensionality and complexity of ageism.
23 Μαΐ 2018 · This chapter addresses ageism at different levels of the health care setting with a review of empirical research and health care policy. At the micro (personal) level, manifestations of ageism include attitudes toward older adults among physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals.
To say that ageism exists in healthcare or long-term care implies that older people are speciW-cally disadvantaged or treated in a less than desir-able way because of their more advanced age. Although there are clear instances of ageism in healthcare and long-term care, the situation does not permit treating all diVerences as ageist inequities.
This chapter provides an overview of how ageism is defined, measured, and assessed in health care and long-term care and aims to bridge the gap between the concept and measurement of ageism in these two contexts.
