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Ageism as a risk factor for chronic disease
- Author:
- ALLEN Julie Ober
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 56(4), 2016, pp.610-614.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Ageism is one of the most socially condoned and institutionalised forms of prejudice in the United States. Older adults are discriminated against in employment, health care, and other domains. Exposure to unfavourable stereotypes adversely affects the attitudes, cognitions, and behaviour of older adults. Recurrent experiences with negative stereotypes combined with discrimination may make ageism a chronic stressor in the lives of older adults. The way stress influences physical health is gaining increasing support. The weathering hypothesis (Geronimus, A. T. (1992). The weathering hypothesis and the health of African-American women and infants: evidence and speculations. Ethnicity and Disease, 2, 207–221) posits that the cumulative effects of chronic objective and subjective stressors and high-effort coping cause deterioration of the body, premature ageing, and associated health problems such as chronic diseases. Researchers have found empirical support for the weathering hypothesis as well as its theorised contribution to racial and ethnic health disparities. Although ageism is not experienced over the entire life course, as racism typically is, repeated exposure to chronic stressors associated with age stereotypes and discrimination may increase the risk of chronic disease, mortality, and other adverse health outcomes. I conclude with implications for practice in the helping professions and recommendations for future research. Ageism warrants greater recognition, social condemnation, and scientific study as a possible social determinant of chronic disease. (Edited publisher abstract)
Insecurity related to working life by age groups in Finland and Estonia in the 1990s
- Authors:
- VAISANEN T., KRAAV I., NIEMELA P.
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Welfare, 9(3), July 2000, pp.158-168.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article compares the reasons for insecurity related to working life in different age groups in Finland and Estonia, and the coping strategies evident in the two countries. The most common causes of insecurity for people of working age are unemployment, mental strain and difficulties in interpersonal relationships at the work place. The individual's willingness to find means of coping at work is more clearly evident in Estonia than in Finland. People of working age in Finland are more likely to attempt to change the external conditions of work than are their Estonian counterparts.
Aging and risk: physical and sexual abuse of elders in Canada
- Authors:
- BROZOWSKI Kari, HALL David R.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 25(7), July 2010, pp.1183-1199.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article starts with developing a theoretical perspective of physical and sexual abuse of elders. It then reviews the literature on physical and sexual elder abuse within the context of risk theory and feminist sociology. A study employing data from the 1999 General Social Survey was also performed to examine several variables potentially associated with the risk for physical or sexual abuse of elders. The General Social Survey collected detailed information on criminal victimisation of a national sample of 25,876 respondents; this study of elders victimised by assault or sexual assault was restricted to a subsample of 3,366 participants who were aged 65 to 80. The results showed that women, aboriginal Canadians, and elders who are divorced, living in urban areas with low income have a higher risk of physical or sexual abuse. The results agree with the theoretical framework which points to physical and sexual elder abuse as a consequence of extreme ageism cultivated in a society riddled with risk and anxiety. Further testing of elder abuse using this theoretical framework is required.
Life course analysis: the courage to search for something more: middle adulthood issues in the transgender and intersex community
- Author:
- WITTEN Tarynn M.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 8(2/3), 2003, pp.189-223.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The author discusses middle-to-late life issues of the transgender and intersex communities. She demonstrates that these mid-to-late life issues are richly complex, full of courage, coping, risk, and resilience, and are grounded in a socio-ecological landscape of systemic actual and perceived violence and abuse. She examines how this socio-ecological environment affects the “normative” mid-life cycle processes. Practical examples are drawn from the author's field interviews and survey research over the past decade. The article closes by examining the effects of such a landscape on the middle-age life stage and examine its potential ramifications for old age as well. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580)
Never the right age?: gender and age-based discrimination in employment
- Authors:
- DUNCAN Colin, LORETTO Wendy
- Journal article citation:
- Gender, Work and Organization, 11(1), January 2004, pp.95-115.
- Publisher:
- Blackwell
Although UK legislation against age discrimination is required by December 2006, little is yet known about how ageism affects different age categories of employees, and the gender dimensions of ageism have also been neglected. Both issues were investigated by questionnaire survey, producing responses from over 1000 employees of a major UK financial services enterprise. The extent and manifestations of ageism were found to vary across age categories and by sex, and evidence of gendered ageism emerged. Reported examples of ageism were highest among younger and older age categories, but all age groups were affected to some degree. Across all ages, women were more likely than men to experience ageist attitudes concerning appearance or sexuality. To be effective, legislation will need to cater for the complex nature and patterns of age discrimination revealed, though the comparator problem and other complexities are such that important aspects of age prejudice, including gender dimensions, risk being overlooked.
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.
The rationing debate: rationing health care by age; the case against
- Author:
- EVANS J. Grimley
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 15.3.97, 1997, pp.822-825.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Presents the case against using age as an appropriate criteria for rationing health care in the National Health Service
Suicide in later life: how to spot the risk factors
- Author:
- DUFFY David
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 12.3.97, 1997, pp.56-57.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Health care staff often fail to recognise depression and other suicide risk factors in older people . Ageism may play a part in this oversight too. By listening to older people and learning to recognise the warning signs, nurses can identify and treat the underlying problem, perhaps preventing the often fatal consequences.