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"It´s like walking in a bubble", nursing students´ perspectives on age suit simulation in a home environment - group interviews from reflection seminars.
BMC Nurs
February 2024
School of Health Sciences, University of Skövde, Box 408, SE-541 28, Skövde, Sweden.
Background: Older persons with age-related and complex health problems will increasingly depend on care provision from nurses in their own homes. However, a barrier to quality care is ageism and nursing students´ disinterest in geriatrics. In addition, nurse education often falls short in preparing students for the complexity of geriatric care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCombating ageism in medical education with narrative medicine.
Gerontol Geriatr Educ
January 2024
Section of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Ageism is common in medical trainees and difficult to overcome. The My Life, My Story program has been shown to be an effective tool for increasing empathy. We explored its use as an instrument for combating ageism by implementing it in a Geriatrics clerkship for fourth year medical students.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUsing Twitter to Understand COVID-19 Vaccine-Related Ageism During the Pandemic.
Gerontologist
February 2024
Department of Psychology, Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Background And Objectives: During the rollout of coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines, older adults in high-income countries were often prioritized for inoculation in efforts to reduce COVID-19-related mortality. However, this prioritization may have contributed to intergenerational tensions and ageism, particularly with the limited supply of COVID-19 vaccines. This study examines Twitter discourse to understand vaccine-related ageism during the COVID-19 pandemic to inform future vaccination policies and practices to reduce ageism.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF"It's the not being seen that is most tiresome": Older women, invisibility and social (in)justice.
J Women Aging
November 2023
York Law School, University of York, York, UK.
Older women experience intersectional discrimination at the nexus of ageism and sexism. This is embodied, women's aging bodies being culturally devalued within youth-privileging cultures and the hyper-sexualization of younger, able-bodied, women. Older women often face the dilemma of attempting to mask the signs of aging or aging "authentically" but encountering heightened stigma, prejudice, and discrimination.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIt's Complicated: Minority Stress, Social Support, In-Group Social Contact, and Sexual Minority Older Adults' Well-Being.
Gerontologist
February 2023
Department of Education and Human Services, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA.
Background And Objectives: We applied the Minority Stress Model to sexual minority older adults to examine how distal minority stressors of ageism and heterosexism related to psychological well-being (life satisfaction, quality of life, psychological distress, and loneliness). We investigated social support and in-group social contact as stress-ameliorating factors and tested for a potential intersection of stress due to minority identities.
Research Design And Methods: A sample of 189 sexual minority older adults (50-86 years; M = 60.
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