Researching Ageism in Health-Care and Long Term Care

Buttiġieġ, Sandra C.; Ilinca, Stefania; Jose, José M. S. de Sao; Larsson, Annika Taghizadeh

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-73820-8_29

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“…Therefore, nurses working in these areas received high-quality, evidence-based training programs to work effectively with these conditions. According to Buttigieg, Ilinca, de Sao Jose, and Larsson (2018), the Contact Theory hypothesizes that the more contact an individual (e.g. nurse) has with an out-group (e.g.…”

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Association of nurses' level of knowledge and attitudes to ageism toward older adults: Cross‐sectional study

Rababa

Hammouri

Hweidi

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Nursing & Health Sciences

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This study aims to examine how the sociodemographic and professional characteristics of nurses in Jordan correlate with their levels of knowledge, attitudes, and ageism toward older adults. Ageism has not been studied in Jordan as it pertains to nurses, so a descriptive, correlational, cross‐sectional design, with a convenience sample of 317 Jordanian nurses, using the Fact on Aging Quiz 1, Fraboni Scale of Ageism, and Relating to Older People Evaluation was conducted in January to February 2019. Significant ageism was found, and differences in knowledge, attitudes, and negative ageism vary among nurses by sociodemographic/professional characteristics. Knowledge and attitudes toward older adults significantly correlate with negative ageism which is associated with poor health outcomes for older adults. Our findings reveal that even in a country with high religious observance and close family ties, ageism exists in healthcare settings because of nurses' poor knowledge and attitudes toward older adults. These findings have implications for nursing education, clinical practice, and health policy. Changes across these sectors based on the findings may contribute to reducing ageist practices and improving older adult health outcomes.

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Association of nurses' level of knowledge and attitudes to ageism toward older adults: Cross‐sectional study

Rababa

Hammouri

Hweidi

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Nursing & Health Sciences

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“…We posit that the exclusion of older adults is often affected by stereotypically viewing older adults as a homogeneous group whereby older people are often considered forgetful, more rigid in thought, less motivated, less dynamic than their younger counterparts, frail, ill, dependent and incompetent [19,54,55,56]. This exclusion can be considered as a form of ageism which covers biased knowledge, values, attitudes and behaviors towards older people [57]. Given the considerable discourse on demographic changes and the increase in the older adult population, one might think that DT researchers, designers and entrepreneurs might capitalize on the rising market size of people aged 65 years and above.…”

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Inclusion of Older Adults in the Research and Design of Digital Technology

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Schwartz

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Digital technology holds a promise to improve older adults’ well-being and promote ageing in place. However, there seems to be a discrepancy between digital technologies that are developed and what older adults actually want and need. Ageing is stereotypically framed as a problem needed to be fixed, and older adults are considered to be frail and incompetent. Not surprisingly, many of the technologies developed for the use of older adults focus on care. The exclusion of older adults from the research and design of digital technology is often based on such negative stereotypes. In this opinion article, we argue that the inclusion rather than exclusion of older adults in the design process and research of digital technology is essential if technology is to fulfill the promise of improving well-being. We emphasize why this is important while also providing guidelines, evidence from the literature, and examples on how to do so. We unequivocally state that designers and researchers should make every effort to ensure the involvement of older adults in the design process and research of digital technology. Based on this paper, we suggest that ageism in the design process of digital technology might play a role as a possible barrier of adopting technology.

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“…Healthcare and long-term care are popular contexts that have provided examples of ageism in older adults. Indeed, Buttigieg et al 19 reported a spectrum of 32 variants of ageism when mapping the main components of ageism and their intersections in these sectors. In contrast, the recognition of the mere existence of ageism in the built environment and its potential impact on the design of age-friendly cities are understudied and unexplored domains, thereby urgently raising the importance for stakeholders to address the concept.…”

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“…Explicit ageism implies conscious ageism, mainly through ageist beliefs, feelings and behaviours, which are consciously endorsed, while implicit ageism infers unconscious ageism also through ageist beliefs, feelings and behaviours, which are spontaneously manifested without cognizant mindfulness. 19 We conducted this investigation on the neighbourhood level in two cities (municipalities) in the Netherlands.…”

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Age-friendly cities in the Netherlands: An explorative study of facilitators and hindrances in the built environment and ageism in design

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Buttiġieġ

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Indoor and Built Environment

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The World Health Organization (WHO) strives to assist and inspire cities to become more ‘age-friendly’ through the Global Age-Friendly Cities Guide. An age-friendly city offers a supportive environment that enables residents to grow older actively within their families, neighbourhoods and civil society, and offers extensive opportunities for their participation in the community. In the attempts to make cities age-friendly, ageism may interact with these developments. The goal of this study was to investigate the extent to which features of age-friendly cities, both facilitators and hindrances, are visible in the city scape of the Dutch municipalities of The Hague and Zoetermeer and whether or not ageism is manifested explicitly or implicitly. A qualitative photoproduction study based on the Checklist of Essential Features of Age-Friendly Cities was conducted in five neighbourhoods. Both municipalities have a large number of visual age-friendly features, which are manifested in five domains of the WHO model, namely Communication and information; Housing; Transportation; Community support and health services; and Outdoor spaces and buildings. Age-stereotypes, both positive and negative, can be observed in the domain of Communication and information, especially in the depiction of third agers as winners. At the same time, older people and age-friendly features are very visible in the cityscapes of both municipalities, and this is a positive expression of the changing demographics.

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Researching Ageism in Health-Care and Long Term Care

Cited by 31 publications

References 87 publications

Association of nurses' level of knowledge and attitudes to ageism toward older adults: Cross‐sectional study

Association of nurses' level of knowledge and attitudes to ageism toward older adults: Cross‐sectional study

Inclusion of Older Adults in the Research and Design of Digital Technology

Age-friendly cities in the Netherlands: An explorative study of facilitators and hindrances in the built environment and ageism in design

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