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Ageism - its effects on services
- Author:
- BOUNDS Joy
- Journal article citation:
- Elders the Journal of Care and Practice, 2(3), August 1993, pp.29-36.
Discusses ageism in residential homes for older people and the way it might effect how services are provided.
Some thoughts on visits to old people's homes
- Author:
- LEWIS Marian
- Journal article citation:
- Elders the Journal of Care and Practice, 2(3), August 1993, pp.11-15.
Tells of the authors thoughts after having entertained at old people's homes in London and Suffolk.
Taboos and prejudices in long-term care
- Authors:
- LAPRE Freek, et al
- Publisher:
- European Ageing Network
- Publication year:
- 2021
- Pagination:
- 90
This report sets out the findings of a working group of experts to give care providers more insight about what prejudices and taboos exist about old people in the context of residential care facilities. A prejudice is defined as ‘a feeling, favourable or unfavourable, toward a person or thing, prior to, or not based on, actual experience’ (Gordon Allport, 1979); a taboo is defined as ‘a subject, word or action that is avoided or forbidden for religious or social reasons’ (Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary and Thesaurus, 2021). The following prejudices are discussed in this report: old people need protection, guidance and sometimes supervision; old people have no duties in society; old people/age have no value; the worthless fourth/final phase of life; the idealisation of living at home; care at home is always better and cheaper than residential care; the delusion of never-ending productivity/old people are unproductive; old people are lonely per se, but may feel so personally; old people do not need a differentiation in housing, services and care; nursing homes have no privacy and lack of self-determination; people dependent on care need high educated professionals who take care of them; ageing is a disease; old people cannot handle technology; old people are not active anymore and cannot have fun. In addition, the following four taboos are discussed: elder abuse; death as the arch enemy; love among older people; and sexuality in old age. (Edited publisher abstract)
Shining a spotlight: the ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic for older adults
- Author:
- MILLER Edward Alan
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 33(4-5), 2021, pp.305-319.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted life globally through virus-related mortality and morbidity and the social and economic impacts of actions taken to stop the virus’ spread. It became evident early in the pandemic that COVID-19 and the strategies adopted to mitigate its effects would have a disproportionate impact on older adults. This special issue of the Journal of Aging & Social Policy reports original empirical research and perspectives on the ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic for this population. This introductory essay highlights key issues pertaining to the impact of COVID-19 on older adults and their families, caregivers, and communities. The prevalence and susceptibility of COVID-19 infection in the older adult population is discussed, including the devastating consequences of the pandemic for residents and staff of long-term care facilities. This is followed by a brief examination of ageism and social isolation brought to the fore during the pandemic, as well as the adverse effects of the pandemic for the economy and racial and ethnic minority populations. It concludes with an overview of issue content. (Edited publisher abstract)
COVID-19 and residential care facilities: issues and concerns identified by the international network prevention of elder abuse (INPEA)
- Authors:
- BEAULIEU Marie, GENESSE Julien Cadieux, ST-MARTIN Kevin
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adult Protection, 22(6), 2020, pp.385-389.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the physical, psychological, social and financial health of older persons. On this subject, the United Nations published a policy brief on the impact of COVID-19 on older persons in May 2020. In line with this, the purpose of this general review is to address three issues affecting older persons living in residential care facilities: protective measures implemented to block the virus’ entry, the types of mistreatment most frequently experienced and the necessity to promote and defend the rights of these persons. Design/methodology/approach: The design of this study is based on input gathered since the end of April during meetings of the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (INPEA) and the results of a July survey of its members. Findings: The survey results indicate variability in the implementation of protective measures in different countries and the significant presence of mistreatment and violation of the rights of older persons. Three major issues demand attention: ageism, systemic and managerial problems and the effects of implemented measures. All these prompt the INPEA to once again plea for the adoption of an international convention of human rights of older persons. Originality/value: To our knowledge, this is the first article sharing the views of the INPEA from a global perspective in the context of COVID-19. (Edited publisher abstract)
Understanding ageing: images, attitudes and professional practice
- Author:
- BIGGS Simon
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 195p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Integrates psychodynamic and social perspectives to provide new insights into how old age is imagined, defined and experienced. Includes chapters on: the role of analytical psychology; self-perception and older age; body, time and image; intergenerational communication; power and oppression; community care; and residential care.
Community resistance to planned housing for the elderly: ageism or general antipathy to group housing?
- Author:
- MANGUM Wiley P.
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 28(3), June 1988, pp.325-329.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Reports on a survey of two suburban communities.
‘We've had our sex life way back’: older care home residents, sexuality and intimacy
- Authors:
- SIMPSON Paul, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 38(7), 2018, pp.1478-1501.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Older care home residents are excluded from the sexual imaginary. Based on a consultative study involving interviews with three residents, three female spouses of residents and two focus groups of care home staff (N = 16), making an overall sample of 22 study participants, we address the neglected subject of older residents' sexuality and intimacy needs. Using thematic analysis, we highlight how residents’ and spouses’ accounts of sexuality and intimacy can reflect an ageist erotophobia occurring within conditions of panoptical control that help construct residents as post-sexual. However, not all accounts contributed to making older residents’ sexuality appear invisible or pathological. Some stories indicated recuperation of identities and the normalisation of relationships with radically changed individuals, e.g. because of a dementia. We also examine care home staff accounts of the discursive obstacles that frustrate meeting residents’ needs connected with sexuality and intimacy. Simultaneously, we explore staffs’ creative responses to dilemmas which indicate approaches to sexuality driven more by observed needs than erotophobic anxiety and governance, as well as panoptical surveillance. (Edited publisher abstract)
Framing scandalous nursing home care: what is the problem?
- Author:
- JONSON Hakan
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 36(2), 2016, pp.400-419.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The aim of this article is to investigate different ways in which nursing home scandals in Sweden have been framed, to discuss the relations between these existing frameworks, and to identify ways of describing the problem that are absent in the current debates. Data for the study consisted of media articles, television documentaries and internet debates, expert reports and court hearings, and interviews with representatives of organisations dealing with the issue of mistreatment in care services for older people. An analytical tool developed within social movement research was used to identify three ‘debates’ on such mistreatment in Sweden, where competing ways of framing the problem have been used: (a) a debate where staff are cast as either perpetrators or victims, (b) a debate on privatisation and profit as the motive for neglect of care recipients, and (c) a debate on deserving and non-deserving recipients of socially provided care centred around populist claims. The analysis highlights a need to introduce an alternative frame for interpretation where mistreatment in care for older people is regarded as involving scandalous cases of ageism. This anti-ageism frame would provide older people with a lead role in the drama – not just as victims but as stakeholders in relation to the problem. (Publisher abstract)
Voice of older people: annual report 2008-09
- Author:
- BAKEWELL Joan
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Government Equalities Office
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 31p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report is written by Joan Bakewell in her capacity as the Government’s Voice of Older People. It is an informal report, setting out the most important issues that have reached her in her year in the position, her response to them, and the ways that the Government is moving to improve the situation. The issues that she has been contacted about most are: domiciliary care; council tax and local government including the closure of public toilets; modern technology; the NHS’s treatment of the elderly and end of life care; retirement age; pensions for both UK residents and expatriates; and sheltered housing and care homes. Joan describes how, using her experience as a journalist and broadcaster, she has been raising awareness of these issues. The report also provides information on Government initiatives to improve the lives of older people including the Equality Bill and the Building a Society for All Ages strategy.