"Ageism" in Brazil: what is it? who does it? what to do with it?

Goldani, Ana Maria

doi:10.1590/s0102-30982010000200009

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“…Indagando sobre la vigencia de los estereotipos hacia la vejez en diferentes países en Latinoamérica, destaca el trabajo de Goldani (2010) en Brasil quien encontró que muchos jóvenes no quieren tener como vecinos a personas adultas mayores. Según el autor, este hecho se presenta en forma de discriminación, y disminuye si la persona adulta mayor entra dentro de los parámetros de conductas socialmente aceptadas como juveniles, lo que da paso a plantear que exponiendo a jóvenes a nuevas visiones de la vejez y el envejecimiento estos miedos y discriminación puede también disminuir.…”

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Información Y Exposición Indirecta Para Reducir Estereotipos Hacia El Envejecimiento

Blanco-Molina¹,

Hernandis²

2016

Revista INFAD de Psicología

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RESUMENPropósito: La imagen que la sociedad tiene de las personas mayores se ha construido sobre una base de estereotipos, en su mayoría lejanos a la realidad. Esta imagen social tendrá una influencia determinante sobre las actitudes y comportamientos de todos aquellos que de una forma u otra se relacionan con ellos, incluidos aquellos que van a trabajar en tareas de cuidado. Durante la formación universitaria, es necesario disminuir los estereotipos negativos hacia la vejez y el envejecimiento de los futuros profesionales que atenderán a las personas al final de su ciclo vital. Método: La intervención "Información más experiencia indirecta" a partir del visionado de un corto-documental "Como un Rolling" (dir: P. Castilla, 2013) que expone el concepto de envejecimiento activo y muestra diferentes ejemplos, iba dirigida a lograr un cambio en los estereotipos hacia la vejez y el envejecimiento en estudiantes universitarios. Mediante un muestreo no probabilístico se seleccionaron 187 estudiantes (Edad: M=21.88, DE=4.15) de España (N= 112) y de Costa Rica (N=75). Se aplicó el Diferencial Semántico del Envejecimiento (Villar, 1997) y el Cuestionario CENVE (Blanca, Sánchez, Tríanes, 2005) antes y después del visionado. Se realizaron pruebas t para muestras relacionadas y análisis de correlaciones sobre las variables estudiadas. Además, se analizó cualitativamente el concepto de envejecimiento activo antes y después del visionado del documental. Resultados: Se identificaron valores altos en el nivel de estereotipos negativos antes del visionado del documental. Se encontraron diferencias significativas entre las medidas pre y post de las escalas, identificando una disminución de los estereotipos negativos tras la exposición y unas visiones más https://doi.org/10. 17060/ijodaep.2016.n2.v1.707

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Información Y Exposición Indirecta Para Reducir Estereotipos Hacia El Envejecimiento

Blanco-Molina¹,

Hernandis²

2016

Revista INFAD de Psicología

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“…Aging is a complex and multifaceted process, and to learn more about it and the way of life of the elderly can interfere with the social perspective (3, 14, 17, 26).…”

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“…Society tends to venerate youth, caricaturing the process of aging as a condition involving shame and disgust (3, 14); this treatment causes elderly to experience age discrimination or ageism. Moreover, the perceived discrimination is significantly related to a change in depressive symptoms (15).…”

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Self-Perception of Gerontoism According to Social Support and Family Functionality

Filho

Koch²,

Kusma

et al. 2019

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Background: The gerontoism, a neologism adopted here, is a form of discrimination regarding age and can occur in rational, emotional, and behavioral contexts, and could be influenced by many factors. This study aimed to identify if the social support and the family functionality interfere in the self-perception of gerontoism. Methods: Participants were 376 elderly in good physical and mental condition. They participated in the Group Living organization in the Municipality of Curitiba, State of Paraná, Brazil, in 2012. Information was collected about sociodemographic profile using a structured questionnaire. The social support, the family functionality, and the self-perception of gerontoism were defined by the Medical Outcomes Study, the Family APGAR index, and Ageism Survey, respectively. The variables were analyzed by Pearson’s correlation coefficient, One Way ANOVA, Tukey’s HSD test, and the Student’s t-test. Results: Most of the participants came from small cities from the interior (48.7%), were female (94.4%), with age ranging 60-69 yr-old (45.5%), whites (76.1%), widowers (47.1%), with children (93.9%), with low schooling (55.3%), with family income from 1-2 minimum wage (31.4%), and retirees not working (44.1%). It was not observed correlation between sociodemographic variables and self-perception of gerontoism. Statistical significance was observed between self-perception of gerontoism and social support (r= -0.26, P=0.00), and between the self-perception and family functionality (r = -0.28, P=0.00). Once the scores of self-perception of gerontoism increased, the ones from social support and family functionality, decreased. Conclusion: Lower self-perception of gerontoism was observed in elderly with higher social support and family functionality.

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“…However, ‘race’ in Brazil is embodied in everyday valuations of sexual attractiveness that are gender, race, and class-oriented. Ageism in Brazil should be addressed in the context of multiple discriminations [ 22 ].…”

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Older Brazilian women’s experience of psychological domestic violence: a social phenomenological study

Souto

Merighi

Guruge

et al. 2015

Int J Equity Health

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BackgroundDomestic violence is a global public health issue, as it is in Brazil. The psychological violence is one of the most prevalent forms of domestic violence, affecting more women than men. However, many older adults do not consider it as a type of domestic violence. In addiction, psychological violence has received little attention from researchers. So, this study aims to further understand the phenomenon of psychological domestic violence perpetrated by relatives against older adult women (60 years and older).MethodsA qualitative study was conducted using a social phenomenological approach proposed by Alfred Schütz. In-depth interviews were conducted with 11 older Brazilian women from three different agencies, two in Campina Grande and one in São Bernardo do Campo. Data collection took place between November 2012 and February 2013. We performed data analysis using the key concepts (such as the world of everyday life, natural attitude, intersubjetivity, stock of knowledge, biographical situation, social action, motivation and typification) proposed by Alfred Schutz.ResultsDespite the fact that participants reported being psychologically abused, they also referred to being neglected and financially abused. They revealed being threatened, disrespected, neglected, financially abused, forced to do housework, and humiliated. Older women expressed feelings of sadness, anger, grief, and fear, which had negative effects on their health. Attempts by the participants to change their current situations were unsuccessful and resulted in feelings of helplessness. The abuser’s behaviour will change, and leaving the abusive situation were two possible outcomes pointed for participants.ConclusionsA support network is crucial to help changing the behaviour of aggressors and/or to help older adult women leave the abusive situation. Further research is needed to understand the risk factors linked to abuse behaviours, to develop educational programs for the abusers, and to design social support for the victims.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12939-015-0173-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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"Ageism" in Brazil: what is it? who does it? what to do with it?

Cited by 29 publications

References 45 publications

Información Y Exposición Indirecta Para Reducir Estereotipos Hacia El Envejecimiento

Información Y Exposición Indirecta Para Reducir Estereotipos Hacia El Envejecimiento

Self-Perception of Gerontoism According to Social Support and Family Functionality

Older Brazilian women’s experience of psychological domestic violence: a social phenomenological study

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