Encyclopedia of Ageism

(The Haworth Pastoral Press) Duke Univ., Durham, NC. Encyclopedic resource provides more than 125 aspects of ageism, examining topics such as antiaging, stereotypes, and the popular media. Works to increase awareness on the many facets of aging. Hardcover, softcover also available.

About the Editors

ix

Contributors

xi

Foreword

xv

Robert N. Butler

Preface

xvii

Abuse in nursing homes

1

(3)

Abuse by elders in nursing homes

4

(1)

Advertising

5

(1)

African Americans

6

(2)

Age conflict

8

(1)

Age denial

9

(3)

Age inequality

12

(2)

Age norms

14

(1)

Age segregation

15

(2)

Age stratification

17

(1)

Aged as a minority group

18

(2)

Ageism in the Bible

20

(5)

Ageism survey

25

(5)

Age-specific public programs

30

(2)

Alcoholism

32

(4)

Antiaging medicine

36

(1)

Architecture

37

(1)

Art

38

(2)

Arts

40

(1)

Assisted living

41

(4)

Attribution theory

45

(2)

Benefits of aging

47

(3)

Biological definitions of aging

50

(2)

Blaming the aged

52

(2)

Books

54

(2)

Botox

56

(2)

Cards

58

(2)

Change strategies

60

(3)

Changes in attitudes

63

(3)

Children's attitudes

66

(2)

Children's literature

68

(3)

Churches

71

(1)

Cohorts

71

(2)

Consent to treatment

73

(6)

Cost-benefit analysis

79

(1)

Costs of ageism

80

(4)

Criminal victimization

84

(3)

Cross-cultural ageism

87

(5)

Cultural lag

92

(1)

Cultural sources of ageism

93

(3)

Definitions

96

(1)

Demographic trends

97

(1)

Dentistry

98

(4)

Disability

102

(10)

Discounts

112

(1)

Disengagement theory

113

(4)

Driver's license testing

117

(4)

Education

121

(1)

Employment discrimination

122

(3)

Ethical issues

125

(8)

Euphemisms

133

(3)

Face-lifts

136

(1)

Facts on Aging Quiz

136

(2)

Facts on Aging and Mental Health Quiz

138

(9)

Family

147

(4)

Financial abuse

151

(3)

Functional age

154

(1)

Future of ageism

155

(4)

Generational equity

159

(1)

Geriatrics

160

(3)

Gerontocracy

163

(1)

Gerontology

164

(2)

Health care

166

(2)

Hispanics

168

(3)

History

171

(2)

HIV/AIDS

173

(2)

Hollywood

175

(1)

Housing

176

(3)

Human rights of older persons

179

(3)

Humor

182

(1)

Hypertension

183

(4)

Individual sources of ageism

187

(3)

Intergenerational projects

190

(1)

Isolation

191

(2)

Japan

193

(1)

Journalism

194

(3)

Language

197

(2)

Legal review program

199

(1)

Legal system

199

(2)

Literature

201

(2)

Living wills

203

(4)

Mandatory retirement of judges

207

(3)

Measuring ageism in children

210

(7)

Medical students

217

(3)

Memory and cognitive function

220

(7)

Memory stereotypes

227

(3)

Mental illness

230

(1)

Modernization theory

231

(2)

Nursing

233

(3)

Nursing homes

236

(2)

Organizations opposing ageism

238

(3)

Patronizing

241

(1)

Pension bias

242

(1)

Perpetual youth

242

(6)

Physical therapy

248

(2)

Politics

250

(4)

Positive Aging Newsletter

254

(1)

Public policy

255

(4)

Reducing ageism

259

(2)

Responses to ageism

261

(3)

Retirement communities

264

(2)

Role expectations

266

(2)

Scapegoating

268

(4)

Self-fulfilling prophecy

272

(2)

Semantic differential scale

274

(1)

Senior centers

275

(1)

Sexism

276

(3)

Sexuality

279

(1)

Slogans

280

(2)

Social psychology

282

(9)

Social Security

291

(1)

Societal ageism

292

(5)

Songs

297

(3)

Stage theory

300

(1)

Stereotypes

301

(3)

Subcultures

304

(2)

Successful aging

306

(3)

Suicide

309

(5)

Tax breaks

314

(2)

Television

316

(1)

Terms preferred by older people

317

(1)

Theories of aging

318

(9)

Transportation

327

(4)

Types of ageists

331

(1)

Typologies

332

(3)

Unconscious ageism

335

(5)

Voice quality

340

(3)

Index

343

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