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HIV-related stigma in midlife and older women
- Authors:
- JACOBS Robin J., KANE Michael N.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Health Care, 49(1), January 2010, pp.68-89.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Stereotyped attitudes to HIV AIDS are acknowledged as a barrier to testing and prevention efforts worldwide. The prevalence of HIV AIDS is rising in women aged 50 and older and this study looks at the influence of self-esteem, sensation seeking, self silencing and sexual assertiveness on the HIV AIDS stigmatising behaviours of 573 Florida women aged between 50 and 93, in 2005 and 2006. Following various analyses, a regression model is presented by the authors, including self esteem, care as self sacrifice, silencing the self, initiation of sexual activities and behaviours and refusal to engage in some sexual activities and behaviours as predictive variables. Midlife and older women face the double stigma of ageism and the idea that older people should not be having sex, which has a bearing on, for example, the questions of condom negotiation and testing necessity, key to the practice of safe sex. The authors report that HIV-related stigma scores were highest in women who possessed lower self esteem, exhibited more self silencing (when with their partner) and were less sexually assertive. Implications for social work practice include a need, say the authors, to development age and gender appropriate strategies and education to assist midlife and older women in addressing HIV AIDS stigma. Further research is called for as older people become infected later in life and more young people age with HIV AIDS.
Social work students' perceptions about incompetence in elders
- Author:
- KANE Michael N.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 47(3/4), 2006, pp.153-171.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
In this American study 172 graduate and undergraduate social work students were surveyed to investigate their perceptions concerning memory impairment in elders. Approximately 70% of those surveyed did not strongly disagree with the perception that all elders are memory impaired. In further analysis, significant correlations were found to exist between this variable and several other variables, including perceptions of elders' behaviours and perceptions of communicating with elders. In a standard multiple regression, three significant predictor variables accounted for 53.4% of the model's adjusted variance. These predictor variables included: (a) perceptions of elders' behaviours, (b) perceptions of communicating with elders, and (c) having taken courses in gerontology. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).