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Factors affecting the attitudes of nursing students toward ageism

open access: yesNursing Practice Today, 2020
Background & Aim: The world's older adults population is increasing and is expected to increase in the future. Ageism is one of the difficulties elderly people experienced.
İsmail Toygar, Ayfer Karadakovan
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Hitting the glass wall: Investigating everyday ageism in the advertising industry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This article contributes to the growing research into the structural inequalities characterising the cultural industries by investigating the lived experience of older cultural workers.
Barker, Richie, Brodmerkel, Sven
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The influence of patient's age on clinical decision-making about coronary heart disease in the USA and the UK [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This paper examines UK and US primary care doctors' decision-making about older (aged 75 years) and midlife (aged 55 years) patients presenting with coronary heart disease (CHD).
Adams, Ann   +5 more
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Negative and positive ageism in an Italian sample: how ageist beliefs relate to epistemic trust, psychological distress, and well-being

open access: yesResearch in Psychotherapy, 2023
Ageism is a social issue of growing concern; ageist beliefs can shape the individual and collective experience of aging. The present study aimed to explore positive and negative ageism in young adults (YA) (18-30 years) and adults (AD) (31-60 years) and
Alice Fiorini Bincoletto   +3 more
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Moral Case for Legal Age Change [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Should a person who feels his legal age does not correspond with his experienced age be allowed to change his legal age? In this paper, I argue that in some cases people should be allowed to change their legal age. Such cases would be when: 1) the person
Räsänen, Joona
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“What? That’s for Old People, that.” Home Adaptations, Ageing and Stigmatisation: A Qualitative Inquiry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Older people, even those living with long-term conditions or poor mobility, can be supported to live well at home, through adapting their home to meet changing need. Installing home adaptations, from grab rails to walk in shower rooms, is cost effective,
Aitken, Dominic   +5 more
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Gestational Ageism [PDF]

open access: yesArchives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 2012
Published guidelines for resuscitation of extremely premature infants emphasize the importance of the gestational age of the infant. However, some ethicists and pediatricians have questioned these guidelines, suggesting that this may represent a form of discrimination.
openaire   +3 more sources

Poor care and the professional duty of the registered nurse [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Concerns have been raised in recent years about standards of care in the UK. Notable failures have been identified in the care of vulnerable older adults.
Gamble, Clair, Ion, Robin M.
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A Critical Perspective on Ageism and Modernization Theory

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2019
Modernization theory has often been used to explain country differences in levels of ageism. The commentary at hand questions its usefulness in the analysis of ageism today for two reasons.
Wouter De Tavernier   +2 more
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Intertwined -isms: an exploration of relationships between ageism and sexism in workplace and non-work contexts

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
This study aimed to examine the association of workplace-based ageism with (a) ageism in non-work contexts and (b) workplace-based sexism. Data came from an online survey of workers in South Korea, with a sample stratified by gender and age group (N ...
Sangkyung Bae, Moon Choi
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