UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF AGEISM AMONG HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS AND STUDENTS
Laura Finn, Kavitha Sukumar, Serena Fasola, Dennis Phan, Kirsten Bautista, Michelle Hon, Catherine Oswald · 2023
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Laura Finn and co-authors survey health professionals and students about ageism in a 2023 paper. As populations age, more care workers need training in serving older adults, and bias against age can harm care. Yet little was known about how well these groups even understand the concept. The team surveyed close to five hundred people across two universities.
Respondents spanned dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, and therapy fields, both students and faculty. A third of all respondents could not define ageism. The gap was sharp in pharmacy, where more than a third of both students and teachers missed the definition. Contact with older adults was common, mostly at work, but few had taken a geriatrics course. Training rates for such courses differed widely by field. The authors press for education that tackles age bias head-on.
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| CREATOR | Laura Finn, Kavitha Sukumar, Serena Fasola, Dennis Phan, Kirsten Bautista, Michelle Hon, Catherine Oswald |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |