HLTH352 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Ageism, Reference Group, Aarp
30 Jan 2017
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Chapter 1: attitudes and social issues that affect older people. Determine people"s outlook on their personal and professional life: convergence on outlooks can influence rules/regulations/policy to control behaviour. 2) actual expression of feeling, stereotyped attitudes are not the only influence (although stereotypes do influence the treatment of older people) 3) - term used to describe stereotyped attitudes toward older people . 4) policy present in nursing homes, essentially the overuse of medication as a substitute foe humane attention through diagnosis and careful treatment. 6) tendency to evaluate an object with favour or disfavour, predictive of general trends in behaviour rather than of behaviour in any specific situation, always contains evaluative component. On racial, religious, sexual characteristics: represents a fleeting or enduring tendency to positively or negatively evaluate an object* 6) person, category of people (ex. the elderly), or any other animate (ex. dogs) or inanimate (ex. global warming) instance, occurrence, or category subject to evaluation by attitudes (see above point!)
