ET Ageism Reading List
Books, Articles and Reviews About Ageism
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This uplifting book emphasizes that middle and old age are merely stages of growth and development, not just seasons of loss and decline as the end approaches. A wealth of topics are covered.... |
Age Discrimination An Epidemic In America is not just another book on ageism. All forms of discriminiation are having devastating affects on millions of people in this country young and old alike...More>> |
Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) is one of the primary methods of guiding many medical decision-makers in the allocation of limited medical resources. This is the problem of medicine and economics. It seems that... More>> |
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| Drawing upon interviews with gay men in five different age groups, journalist Bergling explores the gay community's attitudes towards age and the rites of passage associated with certain age groups. Some of the topics addressed include...More>> | Betty Friedan launches a new revolution with this powerful, bestselling book breaking through the mystique of aging as decline. Through hundreds of interviews, Friedan confronts our denial and demolishes society's compassionate contempt to offer …More>> | Here is a unique text that examines the lives of middle-aged and old women. Women, Aging and Ageism, in response to the lack of literature that focuses on aging women, presents timely and definitive research that illustrates the implications of ageism and sexism. This landmark volume challenges...More>> |
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| Along with race and gender, people commonly use age to categorize—and form stereotypes about—others. Of the three categories, age is the only one in which the members of the in-group (the young) will eventually join the out-group (the old). Although ageism is found cross-culturally, it is especially prevalent in the United States, where most people regard growing older with depression, fear, and anxiety. More>> | Age discrimination is alive and well in America. Despite increased knowledge about aging and improved longevity, myths and stereotypes abound. This book's title refers to the need to dispel those myths and to see old age as characterized by new opportunities and the development of new talents and strengths...More>> | A comprehensive review of many different forms of ageism-including the interesting notion of positive ageism, which projects onto the elderly as a group traditional virtues like wisdom and thrift. He discusses both the individual and social influences on attitudes toward the aged; analyzes institutional patterns of ageism; and explores ways to used to reduce the impact of ageism on the elderly...More>> |
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| Palmor, his co-editors, and 63 contributors review more than 125 aspects of ageism—the ways old people, particularly women, are dehumanized in medicine and the larger culture—and how to counter it. Topics are arranged alphabetically, from abuse in nursing homes to voice...More>> | Humans categorize others socially. Some categorizations - race, gender, and age — are so automatic that they are termed "primitive categories." As we do this, we develop stereotypes. Researchers know much about racism and sexism, but comparatively little about prejudice based on age. The papers in this issue...More>> | ....De Beauvoir reports movingly on the predicament of the aged in the modern world, whether as the result of poverty, illness or enforced idleness, within the family, at work, in institutions and in society at large. -- The New York Times Books of the Century...More>> |
