Question

You overhear one of the nurses in the aged care facility talking about older people during which she states "As you get older, you get more set in your ways".

3.1)   Determine the different commonly referred to stereotype statements that you may come across regarding aged people and how these may adversely impact the older person (in 50-70 words).

Answer 1

The different commonly referred to stereotype statements such as senile, dependent, and incompetent; that we may come across regarding aged people may adversely impact the older person. This was confirmed in Levy’s innovative 1996 study, which showed that older adults who were implicitly primed with negative aging stereotype words these above mentioned negative stereotypes and then made to undertake memory tasks performed worse than the positively primed group, irrespective of; age, gender, level of education, previous computer use, mood, and location of residence. Thus these negative stereotypes may adversely impact the memory, confidence level and performance of the older people.