Ageism and Its Impact on Older Persons’ Health

Ageism has been called a silent epidemic. The extent to which ageism impacts the health of older persons in different countries was not well understood. In this presentation we will focus on the reach of ageism including negative age beliefs, on older individuals’ health. In an exhaustive systematic...

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Autor principal: Levy, Becca
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7742454/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2330
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description Ageism has been called a silent epidemic. The extent to which ageism impacts the health of older persons in different countries was not well understood. In this presentation we will focus on the reach of ageism including negative age beliefs, on older individuals’ health. In an exhaustive systematic review, we found that ageism influenced older individuals in 45 countries and 11 health domains, with the prevalence of significant findings increasing over time (p < .001). In this presentation, we will also explore the mechanism by which this impact occurs and steps that can be taken to address this epidemic.
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spelling pubmed-77424542020-12-21 Ageism and Its Impact on Older Persons’ Health Levy, Becca Innov Aging Abstracts Ageism has been called a silent epidemic. The extent to which ageism impacts the health of older persons in different countries was not well understood. In this presentation we will focus on the reach of ageism including negative age beliefs, on older individuals’ health. In an exhaustive systematic review, we found that ageism influenced older individuals in 45 countries and 11 health domains, with the prevalence of significant findings increasing over time (p < .001). In this presentation, we will also explore the mechanism by which this impact occurs and steps that can be taken to address this epidemic. Oxford University Press 2020-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7742454/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2330 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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