Gerontology & Geriatric Research

Robinson BL

Publications

• Review Article
  Death by Denigration: Psychological, Physiological and Mortality Effects of Ageism
  Author(s): Robinson BLRobinson BL
  
  Most people have the luxury of growing up as members of the majority in society, thus avoiding the stereotype and prejudice inevitably attendant on being part of a minority group. Such a happy lot, however, is merely transitory, for all of us who reach old age-ironically, a vast majority-will join a people for whom that flavour of prejudice and stereotype known as ageism is a daily occurrence. Ageism was first described as "another form of bigotry" (Butler 1969), and more recently defined as creating a situation whereby "the elderly in our society find themselves viewed in a predominantly negative fashion, victims of a pervasive form of discrimination and disparagement". The negative effects of such prejudice on how the elderly are treated by society and on their own self-esteem are only too wellknown, and it is not the purpose of this discussion t.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2167-7182.1000192

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