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Out with "the old", elderly and aged
— personal view | | Author(s) | Marianne Falconer, Desmond O'Neill |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 334 no 7588, 10 February 2007 |
| Pages | p 316 |
| Source | http://www.bmj.com |
| Keywords | Geriatricians ; Attitudes to the old of general public. |
| Annotation | The authors are a specialist registrar and an associate professor respectively in the Department of Medical Gerontology, in Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Dublin. In this short article, they comment on current language usage to denote older people. They concludes that as we will all grow older, we all have a stake in revising pejorative terms. We should identify more with our own future as older people, to promote a more positive use of language in gerontology and geriatric medicine. A longer version of this article with references is available on the website: (www.bmj.com) (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070213201 A |
| Classmark | QT4: TOB * |
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