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| Perceptions of health-care professionals' treatment of older people | | Author(s) | Rafat Hussain, Hal Kendig, Kate O'Loughlin, Lisa Cannon |
| Journal title | Australasian Journal on Ageing, vol 36, no 2, June 2017 |
| Publisher | Wiley, June 2017 |
| Pages | pp 102-106 |
| Source | http://www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/ajag |
| Keywords | Ageism ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Paid welfare workers ; Medical workers ; Attitude ; Australia. |
| Annotation | There is a common perception that older people in health care systems often face covert and, at times, overt ageism. The present study presented preliminary findings from a large-scale nationally representative survey in Australia of people regarding trends in perceptions of ageism by health care professionals. In the survey, respondents of different age groups were asked whether they thought that older people were treated better, worse or about the same as younger people by doctors, nurses and other health professionals. Nearly two-thirds of respondents perceived no discrimination towards older people compared to younger people, but 21% considered treatment to be more favourable and 16% perceived worse treatment. Overall the findings suggest that most people do not perceive health care professionals as having ageist attitudes and, of the remainder, perceive slightly more positive than negative treatment. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170728214 A |
| Classmark | B:TOB: TOB: QP: QT: DP: 7YA |
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