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The Complexity of Ageism. A Proposed Typology
Comparing data from a contemporary (2002) study and a study from 1984, it was found that, now as then, people display seemingly contradictory constellations of attitudes toward old people. Large proportions of respondents, now as then, advocate more influence and space for the 65+ group, at the same time as many feel that no one in the parliament should be a
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International Journal of Ageing and Later Life20y agoStereotypes of Old People Persist. A Swedish “Facts on Aging Quiz” in a 23-year Comparative Perspective
In 2005, as well as in 1982, almost 90 percent of Swedes subscribed to the stereotype that retirement pensioners suffer from loneliness and more than half of Swedes also believed that pensioners suffer from boredom and dissatisfaction with life. Little seems to have changed for the better, or even impaired with regard to the images of the psychological condi
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International Journal of Ageing and Later Life19y ago