Attitudes to Ageing

O’Loughlin, Kate; Kendig, Hal

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“…Workplace age discrimination “can occur in the form of biased decision making, negative evaluations, and unfair behaviors in contexts such as recruitment, personnel selection, performance appraisal, promotion decisions, and training” (Zacher and Steinvik, 2015, p. 327; Australian Government, 2018). Age discrimination is a significant barrier to employment (O’Loughlin and Kendig, 2017; O’Loughlin et al, 2017). Perceived age discrimination at work is also associated with long-term sickness absence (Viitasalo and Nätti, 2015), lower work engagement (Bayl-Smith and Griffin, 2014) and earlier intended retirement age (Zaniboni, 2015).…”

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An Analysis of Factors Associated With Older Workers’ Employment Participation and Preferences in Australia

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Australian government and organizational age-management policies continue to target employment participation among older workers in light of an aging population. Typically, efforts to reduce early retirement among older workers have focused on well-established factors, including the promotion of worker health, reducing injury, supporting caregivers, reducing age discrimination and enhancing skill development. This research extends on the former approach by examining established factors along with important emerging factors, namely work-life conflict, work centrality and person-job fit. Additionally, the research analyses the effects of gender and financial pressure on older workers’ employment participation and preferences. Logistic regression analysis of cross-sectional survey data involving 1,504 Australians aged 45–65, revealed that two established factors, physical health and caregiving, and all three emerging factors were associated with employment participation and preferences to be employed. However, important variations on the basis of gender and financial pressure were also identified. Caregiving was more strongly associated with the preference to remain employed for men (OR = 0.2.54, p < 0.01) than women (OR = 1.03, ns) and person-job fit was more strongly associated with the preference to remain employed for women (OR = 1.64, p < 0.001) than men (OR = 0.91, ns). Work-life conflict was more strongly associated with the preference to leave employment for those reporting limited financial pressure (OR = 0.60, p < 0.001) compared to those in poorer financial circumstances (OR = 0.87, ns). These findings suggest that organizational age management policies should focus on both established and emerging factors, particularly the provision of flexible working conditions and improving the psychosocial work environment. However, such efforts should carefully consider the different needs of men and women, and those under varying levels of financial stress. With respect to government policy to promote employment participation, the findings support a stronger focus on improving physical and psychosocial work conditions rather than increasing the pension eligibility age. This may require further collaboration between government and employers.

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“…From a policy perspective, expert groups and regulatory bodies around the world have long recognised the under‐representation of older participants in clinical trials and have addressed the issue to varying degrees through a range of non‐binding and/or binding guidance and recommendations. However, while this recognition is important, questions remain around whether these measures provide much more than a form of self‐regulation, how they have been implemented and monitored and, importantly, in what way they are framed as an attempt to address forms of age discrimination evident in clinical research and the health sector generally 4,5 …”

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“…However, while this recognition is important, questions remain around whether these measures provide much more than a form of self-regulation, how they have been implemented and monitored and, importantly, in what way they are framed as an attempt to address forms of age discrimination evident in clinical research and the health sector generally. 4,5 A common narrative in health-care links vulnerability and dependence with ageing. 6 Such ageist assumptions about older people's presumed abilities reflect wider societal views of older people as a homogeneous group.…”

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International responses addressing the under‐representation of older people in clinical research

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Australas J Ageing

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Older people (aged 65 years +) are under‐represented in clinical research across many disease areas. Such exclusions limit the generalisability of trial results and can lead to a gap in critical knowledge regarding the efficacy and safety of interventions in older age groups. International bodies and regulators have addressed this issue to varying degrees. The USA's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has produced regular non‐binding guidance about the inclusion of older trial participants, while the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) binding regulations mean that those seeking research funding must include participants of all ages unless there are scientific or ethical reasons to exclude them. European regulations governing clinical trials of new medications require that participants represent the population groups that are likely to use the product being tested, while Britain highlights the need to improve trial participation of under‐served groups, which include older people. Australian clinical trial guidelines point to the potential problem of excluding some groups from research but do not specifically address older participants. While current international approaches may provide some improvements in trial representation, additional strategies are required to promote clinical research that better reflects populations seen in clinical practice. Australia could benefit from clinical trial guidance that highlights the specific issue of the under‐representation of older participants and outlines strategies to facilitate greater inclusion. This article provides an overview and critique of the current approaches to the inclusion of older people in clinical research and highlights policy gaps and limitations of current strategies.

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“…In Australia, ageing has been described as a "social problem" (Australian Treasury, 2010Treasury, , 2015. Moreover, ageing populations have always been closely associated with "illness" and "dependency" (Gong and Kendig, 2016;O'Loughlin and Kendig, 2017). Driven by a consumer culture that is quintessentially youth culture, the idea that ageing equals stagnation and deterioration circulates via mainstream cultural discourses in Australia (Bryski, 2010).…”

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The Australian Reifungsroman: Reading women’s ageing in Kate Grenville’s The Idea of Perfection and Dorothy Hewett’s Neap Tide

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2021

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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Women’s ageing processes raise important questions about the relationship between the body, the self, and society, but this topic has been widely ignored in Australian literature. The Australian Reifungsroman, through nuanced articulations of ageing women’s experiences of being doubly othered, shows itself to be a critical discourse that helps to break the cultural silence accorded to ageing women. This article aims to acknowledge the existence of the Reifungsroman in Australian literature while addressing questions around how this genre is employed in the Australian context, in order to actively engage with the topic of women’s ageing. Drawing on literary gerontology, this article examines Australian novelist Kate Grenville’s The Idea of Perfection (2000) and Dorothy Hewett’s Neap Tide (1999) from a feminist perspective, focusing on the literary representations of ageing women offered by these novels. In so doing, this article contends that the Australian Reifungsroman unsettles the dominant ideas about women’s ageing as negative and declining. Indeed, narratives such as these help to articulate ageing women’s agency by reconstructing new images of older womanhood.

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Attitudes to Ageing

Cited by 9 publications

References 46 publications

An Analysis of Factors Associated With Older Workers’ Employment Participation and Preferences in Australia

An Analysis of Factors Associated With Older Workers’ Employment Participation and Preferences in Australia

International responses addressing the under‐representation of older people in clinical research

The Australian Reifungsroman: Reading women’s ageing in Kate Grenville’s The Idea of Perfection and Dorothy Hewett’s Neap Tide

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