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| South African doctors and elderly patients | | Author(s) | Ntobeko Ntusi, Monica Ferreira |
| Journal title | BOLD, vol 15, no 1, November 2004 |
| Publisher | International Institute on Ageing (United Nations - Malta), November 2004 |
| Pages | pp 3-13 |
| Source | http://www.inia.org.mt |
| Keywords | Doctors ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Patients ; Social surveys ; South Africa. |
| Annotation | A country-wide postal survey of South African medical practitioners is reported, the aim of which was to determine their attitudes toward older people, geriatric medicine and older patients. The self-administered questionnaire was completed by 196 sampled respondents (21% of those contacted). Scores on the Ageing Semantic Differential (Rosencranz and M Nevin, 1969), a 7-point Likert-type scale, indicated judgement on 32 bipolar attribute dimensions, and were subjected to factor analysis and triangulated with the results of content analysis of qualitative data. Results showed that younger doctors (aged 45 and under) with up to 20 years of medical practice who attend older patients daily or weekly and work in the private sector have less negative attitudes towards older people and older patients. 80% of the sample were disinterested in a specialty of geriatric medicine. It is concluded that South African doctors' attitudes towards older patients are ageist, and that an expanded geriatric medicine component in the medical education curricula is indicated. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050117201 A |
| Classmark | QT2: TOB: LF: 3F: 7PM |
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