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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.
Ageism is pervasive, affects people of all ages from childhood onwards and has serious and far-reaching consequences for people’s health, well-being and human rights. Ageism can be found within institutions, in interactions between people and within ourselves.
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 · It brings together the best available evidence on the nature and magnitude of ageism, its determinants and its impact. It outlines what strategies work to prevent and counter ageism, identifies gaps and proposes future lines of research to improve our understanding of ageism.
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.
15 Ιαν 2020 · Results: Ageism led to significantly worse health outcomes in 95.5% of the studies and 74.0% of the 1,159 ageism-health associations examined. The studies reported ageism effects in all 45 countries, 11 health domains, and 25 years studied, with the prevalence of significant findings increasing over time (p < .0001).
