“…J.BACHELDER ferin, 1968;Williams, 1984), health care professionals have been found to be resistant to working with older people (Butler, 1975;Coe, 1967;Futrell & Jones, 1977;Geiger, 1978;Wolk & Wolk, 1971) or may feel that they are not as susceptible to or are less worthy of treatment (Auerbach & Levenson, 1977;Barta-Kvitek, Shaver, Blood, & Shepard, 1986;Etzioni, 1961;Kosberg & Gorman, 1975;Solomon & Vickers, 1979) and thus promote programs that ignore patients' capacity for self-determination and that foster dependency (Aiken, 1978;American Association of Retired Persons, 1984).…”