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Queering Ageism

University of Toronto Quarterly, 2021
Queer theory is an effective tool for challenging ageist assumptions concerning the life course. Recent approaches by age studies scholars and queer theorists, such as Barbara Marshall, Linn Sandberg, Elizabeth Freeman, and Dustin B. Goltz, make use of a queer-theoretical lens to expose naturalized essentialist views of old age and the life course as ...
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Discourses of ageism and anti-ageism

Journal of Aging Studies, 1993
Abstract When the label ‘ageist’ is attributed to social practices, different sets of moral criteria can be in question. Some aspects of the everyday talk of older people that we examine in this article can themselves be taken to reproduce ageist assumptions, in the sense of self-disenfranchisement.
Nikolas Coupland, Justine Coupland
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Ageism and equality [PDF]

open access: possibleJournal of Medical Ethics, 2012
This paper rebuts suggestions made by Littlejohns et al that NICE is not ageist by analysing the concept of ageism. It recognises the constraints that finite resources impose on decision making bodies such as NICE and then makes a number of positive suggestions as to how NICE might more effectively and more justly intervene in the allocation of scarce ...
Harris, John, Regmi, Sadie
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Ageisms

Health Care Analysis, 2005
In this paper some very fundamental attitudes we have and assumptions we make in the US about persons, what they owe and what they are owed, are scrutinized and found to be indefensibly ageist. It is argued that these assumptions and the attitudes they engender are supported by logically and ethically suspect methods and conclusions.
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Ageism in Nursing

Plastic Surgical Nursing, 2020
Stereotypes of older adults and assumptions of old age as a time of dependency and vulnerability affect not only how older adults are perceived and treated by society, but how they are treated by members of the nursing profession as well. When nurses display ageist attitudes, it can be harmful to older patients both physically and emotionally.
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Ageism in nursing

Journal of Nursing Management, 2013
Ageism in health care delivery and nursing poses a fundamental threat to health and society. In this commentary, implications of age discrimination are presented to generate an agenda for action in nursing management.In nations like the United States and the United Kingdom, nursing is an ageing profession caring for an ageing society where age ...
Kagan, Sarah H., Melendez-Torres, G.
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