1979
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1979.tb06445.x
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Attitudes of Health Workers Toward Old People*

Abstract: The Tuckman-Lorge Questionnaire was used to study the attitudes of three groups of health workers toward old people and to test their acceptance of geriatric stereotypes. The health workers tested were medical students, housestaff members, and members of a mobile psychogeriatric screening team. Many significant differences were found between and within the groups tested, as well as between male and female subjects. The female housestaff had extremely high and significantly different scores from all other group… Show more

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“…The stereotype of the elderly includes several factors that specifically relate to the development of learned helplessness (Solomon & Vickers, 1979;Butler, 1975;Tuckman & Lorge, 1953). For example, it includes the belief that the elderly have a slower convalescence from illness and are more dependent.…”
Section: Psychosocial Factors In the Development Of Learned Helplessnessmentioning
confidence: 98%
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“…The stereotype of the elderly includes several factors that specifically relate to the development of learned helplessness (Solomon & Vickers, 1979;Butler, 1975;Tuckman & Lorge, 1953). For example, it includes the belief that the elderly have a slower convalescence from illness and are more dependent.…”
Section: Psychosocial Factors In the Development Of Learned Helplessnessmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…These include the attitudes of health care providers, the effects of interactions between the health care provider and the elderly patient, and the status disparity that is often the result of stereotyping (Solomon & Vickers, 1979;Butler, 1975). Maintenance of sick role behavior and reinforcement of sick role behavior (Wilson, 1970;Parsons, 1951) by the healthlmental health care provider is a second factor.…”
Section: Psychosocial Factors In the Development Of Learned Helplessnessmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The professional geriatric and gerontological literature reveals that the prevailing attitude of health care trainees toward older adults (e.g., Damrosch 1984;Gunter 1971;Spence 1968), as well as those of practicing licensed professionals, is alarmingly negative (e.g., Campbell 1971;Cyrus-Lutz and Gaitz 1972;Ford and Sbordone 1980;Gatz and Pearson 1988;Gresham 1976;Kastenbaum 1972;Leiffer 1982;Ray et al 1987;Solomon and Vickers 1979;Wolk and Wolk 1971;Zimring 1977). These research findings provide indirect evidence for the contention that negative conceptual metaphors about aging and older adults are far-reaching not only in the professions but in society as a whole (Levin and Levin 1980).…”
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“…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).…”
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