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Positive ageing: from the political to the personal
- Author:
- ROBERTSON Guy
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 16(4), 2012, pp.149-153.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The author asserts that ageism is the backdrop against which most older people live their lives. His paper examines published research from social gerontology on the impact of negative attitudes on longevity and health and then incorporates research from positive psychiatry to produce some practical personal development approaches based on synthesis of the two. The literature suggests that negative attitudes, largely fed by societal ageism, can significantly reduce longevity. Altering a person's “explanatory style” (their view of their place in the world; whether they think they are valuable, deserving or worthless) can produce significant health and wellbeing benefits. The latter is proposed as a means of countering the former. However, whilst each element is grounded in robust research evidence, there is as yet no dedicated research to show that the proposed “combined intervention” will have the intended impact. A methodology is proposed for enabling individuals to examine their negative attitudes towards their own ageing and then use a variety of psychological techniques to ameliorate or replace them with more positive ones, which it is argued, will lead to greater health and wellbeing.
Growing older in the 21st century
- Author:
- DEAN Malcolm
- Publisher:
- Economic and Social Research Council
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 17p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Older people in Britain are happier, healthier, and more resourceful than is generally supposed, but the message from the UK's biggest ever study of the quality of life in old age - the four-year Growing Older Programme funded by the Economic and Social Research Council - is that the Government needs to do more to ensure that the growing numbers of older people have a better life. While people are living longer, life expectancy went up by 25 years in the last century, older people still live in a climate that is characterised by prejudice, discrimination and social exclusion, with people over 80 (the fastest rising segment of the population) hit hardest of all.
Old age
- Author:
- VINCENT John
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 190p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The latter decades of the 20th century saw a fundamental change in the age structure of many Western societies. In these societies it is now common for a fifth to a quarter of the population to be retired, for fewer babies to be born than is required to sustain the size of the population and for life expectancy to exceed 80 years old. This volume provides an overview of the key issues arising from this demographic change, asking questions such as: what if any, are the universal characteristics of the ageing experience?; what different ways is it possible to grow old?; and what is unique about old age in the contemporary world? The author also examines issues ranging from the social construction, diversity and identity of old age to areas of social conflict over population, pensions and the medicalisation of old age.
Financing the future: mind the gap!: the implications of an ageing population; key findings and proposed actions
- Editors:
- BAKER David, PRICE Marcus
- Publisher:
- Financial Services Authority
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 43p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report examines the pensions crisis and advises on the risks involved, and the alternatives available to both employers and employees.
Growing older programme: project summaries
- Author:
- ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL. Growing Older Programme
- Publisher:
- Economic and Social Research Council
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 37p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Growing Older Programme had two objectives: to identify and scrutinise aspects of the quality of life of older people and try to contribute to policy and practice aimed at improving the quality of later life. The 24 research projects included: several large scale surveys, one of the biggest contacting more than 8,000 people aged 75 and over in 23 doctors' general practices, which was the source of deep concern about inequality in old age; identifying problems that older people encounter in using public transport, with train and bus operators seen to regard the old and disabled as a 'nuisance'; revealing the extent of social exclusion borne by older people in poor city areas; the particular problems of the growing number of older people from ethnic minorities; the positive side of getting old, including taking part in learning, and the support of church going for many; and coping with bereavement.
Age and race: double discrimination; life in Britain today for ethnic minority elders
- Author:
- AGE CONCERN. Commission for Racial Equality
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- Five booklets + two flyers.
- Place of publication:
- London
Includes: an overview of life for ethnic minority elders in Britain today; health; housing; income; social welfare; education and leisure. Flyers on useful organisations, contacts and further reading.
Grey Power: the changing face; Help the Aged seminar
- Author:
- WORCESTER Robert M
- Publisher:
- Help the Aged
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 34p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This monograph, developed from a slide presentation at a Help the Aged Seminar, explores data on the changes brought about in society by the increasing proportion of older people. It includes government statistics covering demographic and economic information but is mainly MORI's own survey research data. Chapters cover demographics, health and health care, economics, work, lifestyles, and, in conclusion, attitudes, values and political priorities.
Quality in later life: rights, rhetoric and reality: British Society of Gerontology Annual Conference, (30th:Stirling; 2002, 31 August-2 September)
- Editors:
- TESTER S, ARCHIBALD C, ROWLINGS C, TURNER S
- Publisher:
- Department of Applied Social Science, University of Stirling
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 294p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Stirling
These conference papers explore the issue of quality in later life, the factors that affect older people's experience and their understanding of what matters to them. Gerontologists have much to contribute both to analysis and the promotion of quality in old age. This contribution continues to develop the means by which older people, including those with significant mental or physical disabilities can make themselves participate in the debates by defining their own experiences and what makes a difference to them.