Gerontology & Geriatric Research

Robinson BL

Publications

• Review Article
  Death by Denigration: Psychological, Physiological and Mortality Effects of Ageism
  Author(s): Robinson BL Robinson 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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