Question

Due to the increasing percentage of older adult clients in the U.S., it is imperative that healthcare providers assess and confront their own attitudes and perceptions toward older adults.

In your initial post, address the following:

1. Describe ageism and its impact on societal views of older adult clients.
2. Explain how ageism can influence the healthcare provisions of older adult clients.
3. As a healthcare provider, how can one best assess and confront attitudes, perceptions, behaviors, and biases toward older adults?

Answer 1

Describe ageism and its impact on societal views of older adult clients.

Ageism is the cataloging, racism, and unfairness against people on the grounds of their age. An example is, losing a career because of age.

Our whole society says older people are worthless, undesired, and difficult. It says to more youthful that growing old is ailing, and being old is the most wasted part of life. Negative attitudes are also extensively manifested even within the society where older adults are at their most helpless and weak. Socially established ageism can grow self-fulfilling by raising in older people stereotypes of social loneliness, bodily and cognitive deterioration, a decrease of physical motion, and financial hardship.