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Gerontologist
December 2024
Department of Social Sciences, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, Texas, USA.
Older adults on the autism spectrum exhibit a broad array of strengths and limitations. While exceptional abilities may be masked by difficulties in presentation and communication, hidden disabilities can lead to unmet needs for accommodation and support. Critical to the recognition of disabilities is subjects' readiness to disclose potentially stigmatizing conditions or concerns-weighing the benefits of self-disclosure (e.
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November 2024
School of Business, Accra Technical University, P. O Box GP 561, Barnes Road, Accra Metro, Accra, Ghana.
Background: Workplace Age Discrimination Experienced (WADE) can be disorientating and detrimental to well-being. Hence, older employees would like to avoid it, but those who experience it may discriminate against their older peers. WADE may be associated with Age Discrimination of Peers (ADP), and this relationship can be moderated by Occupational Health Literacy (OHL).
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September 2024
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Background And Objectives: This study examined the impact of receiving foundational information about aging on continuing education (CE) interests, preferences, and behaviors of mental health providers.
Research Design And Methods: Participants were practicing licensed professional counselors (N = 120) recruited from a random sampling of a state registry. The study employed a 3-group randomized controlled design with participants assigned to 1 of 3 conditions: an aging-specific reading, an opioid use disorder-specific reading, and a CE requirement-specific reading.
Gerontologist
June 2024
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, Spain.
Fictional stories set in care homes have increased in the last decades and, with them, the perspectives from which care homes are constructed and represented have become diversified. Care home stories. Aging, disability, and long-term residential care.
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January 2024
Psychology, SUNY Brockport, Brockport, USA.
Ageism is often neglected in higher education curriculum, leaving many students unaware of its harmful effects and how to address it. The purpose of this mixed methods study was to examine the benefits of education on ageism and intergenerational contact in a 1-credit seminar course on ageism. Participants included 21 students (experimental group) in an ageism course and 35 students (control group) in reading-based seminar courses unrelated to ageism.
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