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Ageism has far-reaching impacts on all aspects of our health and well-being when we are older: It is associated with earlier death. It is linked to poorer physical health, affecting, among others, our ability to recover from disability and our sexual and reproductive health.
- Global Report on Ageism
The Global report on ageism outlines a framework for action...
- Ageism is a global challenge: UN
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- Ageing: Ageism
For example, ageism is associated with earlier death (by 7.5...
- Global Report on Ageism
18 Μαρ 2021 · Ageism has serious and wide-ranging consequences for people’s health and well-being. Among older people, ageism is associated with poorer physical and mental health, increased social isolation and loneliness, greater financial insecurity, decreased quality of life and premature death.
10 Απρ 2021 · The report highlights that ageism can be institutional, interpersonal, or self-directed and summarises the best evidence on the scale, impacts, and determinants of ageism against both older and younger people and the most effective strategies to address ageism.
18 Μαρ 2021 · For example, ageism is associated with earlier death (by 7.5 years), poorer physical and mental health, and slower recovery from disability in older age. Ageism also increases risky health behaviors, such as eating an unhealthy diet, drinking excessively or smoking, and reduces our quality of life.
While ageism is present on a systemic level in the healthcare field, characterizing and understanding the complex factors affecting ageism can positively impact older patients’ lives and outcomes. The downstream ramifications of ageism in healthcare are important to consider in clinical contexts.
Ageism results in various harms, disadvantages, and injustices, including age-based health inequities and poorer health outcomes. Globally, ageism afects billions of people: at least one in two people hold ageist attitudes against older adults,5 with rates much higher in lower-income. Published Online.
14 Μαρ 2019 · There is a need to take into account underexplored forms of operationalization and inductive conceptualizations of ageism, such as self-directed ageism and implicit ageism. In addition, ageism in health care should be measured by using context-specific instruments.
