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Evaluate the many ways that the older adults experience prejudice (They…
Evaluate the many ways that the older adults experience prejudice
They develop anxiety about what other may think about them and their age
causing needless fear, waste, illness, and misery
with age there comes illness deafness, blindness, heart disease, significant cognitive decline.
many physical and and intellectual losses of late adulthood
in body health
in the senses
Many older people themselves are ageist, most people older than 70 say they are doing better than other people their age
In an ageist culture, feeling younger and better than others of your chronological age is understandable. As one commentator noted, “feeling youthful is more strongly predictive of health than any other factors including commonly noted ones like chronological age, gender, marital status and socioeconomic status
Of course, health conditions and slower movement are not simply the result of ageism. Without the distortions of ageism, changes need to be understood for what they are, with adjustment and accommodation, not with despair or desperation
If the elderly attribute to their problems they may not try to change themselves or the situation.
If people of any age treat older people as if they are frail and confused, that treatment might make them become more dependent on others.
Contrary to ageist stereotypes, most older adults are happy, quite healthy, and active. Benevolent as well as dismissive ageism reduces health and self-image, as elderspeak illustrates
Contrary to ageist stereotypes, most older adults are happy, quite healthy, and active. Benevolent as well as dismissive ageism reduces health and self-image, as elderspeak illustrates
Hundreds of theories address the causes of aging. The most common are theories of wear and tear, of genes, and of cellular change. All seem plausible, but none seems sufficient.
One attempt to stop the aging process is calorie restriction. That seems to benefit health and prolong life in many species, but experts are conflicted as to whether it would be useful for people.
Ageism: the idea that determines who the person is, therefor everyone should "act their age".
Age restricts what we do
Ageism is a social disease just like racism and sexism.
90% of marketing dollars target people younger than 50, "old people go there", "they are useless" etc...
Elderspeak: the way people talk to the old like a baby. "baby talk", "Honey", "Dear".