An image of rocking chairs, front porches and old timers telling the same story over and over again to an unwilling audience. Is this an accurrate view of what it means to be an adult, an older adult? In our modern socitey ther are many challenges for those of this developmental stage, one of which is ageism. Ageism is the negative attitude towards our elderly and aging based on the idea that older individuals have less control over their mental state, that they are less attractive or even that they are less competent (Feldman, 2008). This antiquated attitude presents a miriade of challenges for our aging nation as they find themselves combating the socially accepted behavior of devalued steroetyping.
What does it mean to live a healthy lifestyle? Leading a healthy lifestyle means that you are doing everything in your power to ensure that your body stays in as good shape as possible. Your physical and mental well-being must be taken into consideration when trying to develop a healthy lifestyle action plan. Once you understand what a healthy lifestyle consist of, you can work toward achieving one.Two of the most important things to do to achieve a healthy lifestyle is to exercise and to eat healthy. * Body: * Exercising is essential to healthy living.
Negative stereotypes can have harmful consequences for the quality of life of older adults and can also result in a major loss to society. With increases in life expectancy as well as reduced infirmity, many adults are aging well, but negative stereotypes of aging may put society at risk for losing the contributions of these vital and knowledgeable people. The potential individual and social effects underscore the need to understand the content of aging stereotypes in terms of their accuracy and applications. It is especially important to understand how negative stereotypes exacerbate poor performance in areas in which decline is real. That is, beliefs that memory is bad in old age can reduce motivation when increased motivation is needed
With the many different problems and challenges that the elderly are facing today, along with the practice of excluding the elderly from the rest of society, it is no wonder that they are having alcohol and substance abuse issues. The issue of alcoholism and substance abuse is also allowing us a view of a society that has placed a lot of importance on “the quick fix”, some things take time, effort, and sacrifice and to employ any other method is to send an invitation to mayhem. The seniors of today are suffering as a result there being too many that are unwilling to make the unselfish sacrifices necessary to address this issue, our seniors are indeed at risk. Older adults also face the risk of misusing over-the-counter and prescription medications, the most frequent form of substance abuse problems among the elderly, and combined difficulties with alcohol and medication misuse may affect up to 19 percent of older Americans (Bartels, Blow, Brockmann, & Van Citters,
The Fairy Tale In his essay, “The End of Courtship,” Leon R. Kass claims that “people on both the left and right have come to regard the breakup of marriage as a leading cause of neglect, indeed, of the psychic and moral maiming, of America’s children”(224). The high divorce rates in our society are staggering and recognizable; yet we can point out the problem but can’t seem to provide a solution. There are several “deal breakers” in a marriage with many being obvious and some not so obvious; however the relationship problems people face today are no different then what couples faced in the past when divorce was rare and vows of lifetime commitments and family values were worth fighting for. The question we must ask ourselves is
Three aspects of burnout are emotional exhaustion, negative, cynical attitudes and feelings about one’s clients and the tendency to evaluate oneself negatively with regards to one’s work with clients. Consequences of burnout can have serious consequences to staff, patients and the healthcare institutions involved. The studies conducted led to the development of the Maslach Burnnout Inventory
This is the stage which is called the end of life stage. Some people at this stage may not be able to talk. Some old people give up on life at this stage because they be highly dependent on others, they be stuck in a care home, their family probably rarely comes to see them and they be in a lot of pain. Attitudes Once you turn older your attitude changes. It changes towards your life, your family and towards the society.
Ageism is a prejudice in which people are categorized and judged solely on the basis of their chronological age. Our western culture has embedded to ageism into our lives, and we may not be able to identify, ageist behavior when it occurs. Older adults are frequently given negative labels such as: senile, sad, lonely, poor, sexless, ill dependent and disabled. It is inevitable that we will experience decline in physical and mental capacities. However the timing quality and degree of the ageing process are highly variable and very different for each individual.
The social creation of dependency is about how the elderly depend on the government. This is for things such as pensions and age restricted retirement policies. The effects of these policies are that they single out older people and isolate them in some ways. Because of this elderly people are left feeling worthless and have a low self-esteem as they stand out to be helpless and vulnerable. Because the elderly have a stereotypical image that they are useless they become a focus point as they have negative attitudes towards things and become more dependent on friends, family and social care services.
Jonathan Kent Perspective on aging Jonathan Kent Perspective on aging Stereotype is defined as a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. The aging community is being stereotyped everyday whether it is positive or negative. The aging community is being stereotyped on social media, print Medias, and electronic Medias. Studies show that women are being underrepresented more than men. The aging population is being portrayed in the media in a positive way but most certainly in a negative way.