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Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Physiotherapy, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
Background: Physical activity and exercise are promoted worldwide as effective interventions for healthy ageing. Various exercise initiatives have been developed and evaluated for their efficacy and effectiveness among older populations. However, a deeper understanding of participants' experiences with these initiatives is crucial to foster long-term activity and exercise among older persons.
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Sealy Center on Aging, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, United States.
Self-perceptions of aging (SPA) are defined as an evaluation of one's own aging. SPA can be positive (e.g.
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J Aging Stud
December 2024
Department of Social & Health Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel; Music Department, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
This study corresponds with a dispute in gerontology literature about whether a younger subjective age acts as a psychological defense for older adults by perceiving themselves as younger in order to dissociate from their age-group or as a marker of good physical health. This cross-sectional study presents a preliminary step to clarify this dispute. We examined the role of emotional empathy (measured by the Multifaceted Empathy Test) as a moderator in the ageism (measured implicitly by the Brief Implicit Association Test) and subjective age (measured on Likert scale) association on a convenience sample of 203 community-dwelling older adults (aged 65-90, M = 74.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOn the limits of communication: The liminal positioning of older adults and processes of self-ageism and ageism.
J Aging Stud
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Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, Postbus 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, Netherlands; Leyden Academy on Vitality and Ageing, Rijnsburgerweg 10, 2333 AA Leiden, Netherlands. Electronic address:
Our qualitative study, consisting of in-depth semi-structured interviews with recent retirees in the Dutch city of Leiden, set out to investigate how communication, through processes of self-identification and the negotiation of social identities, relates to (self-)ageism. A letter from the city administration was used to make age identification salient in our research and prompted stories of various liminal spaces and phases that our participants experienced. Whilst liminal phases are usually considered uncertain and ambiguous, in our study we found that for older people liminality can offer a desired ambiguity that allowed them to adopt a more positive identity than 'being old', which was rejected as undesirable.
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Louis and Gabi Weisfeld School of Social Work, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
The aim of the study was to assess the effectiveness of a short educational intervention to reduce ageism and enhance social activism among adolescents. The study involved a 90-min workshop for 318 Israeli adolescents (aged 11 to 15, 73.9% females).
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