Health Sciences 2711A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pat Summitt, Ageism, Old Age

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2711A/B
• Professor: Marie Savundranayagam

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Positive: senior, senior citizen, mature adult, retired person, older adult, elder (most neutral) Beliefs = ideas about what is true: based on systematic knowledge, assumed to be true (cid:894)(cid:271)e(cid:272)ause that"s (cid:449)hat (cid:449)e"(cid:448)e (cid:271)ee(cid:374) told(cid:895) Our cultural beliefs can turn out to inaccurate or misleading. Beliefs can be used to make inferences and draw conclusions that may or may not be true. Examples: adults under 65 believed that following were problems for most people over age 65:fear of crime, inadequate income, loneliness, insufficient medical care, not feeling needed, poor health problems. Composite beliefs that we attribute to categories of people. Categorize people to reflect the value hierarchies within culture. Examples: positive: patriotic, wise, generous, story tellers, negative: forgetful, poor drivers, dependent on family inflexible, old fashioned. Mass media - television (most important), feature films, print journalism ((cid:862)greed(cid:455) gra(cid:374)dpare(cid:374)ts(cid:863) not retiring, taking our jobs, etc. )