Background: Ageism persists in many different societies as it is innate and subconscious nature. Negative effects such loneliness, mistreatment, occupational discrimination are frequently present due to ageism. The dental students our study were wary of the possible benefits expensive care because ageism rife their field. There no validated reliable sc...

Introduction In Lucino Visconti’s 1971 film, Death in Venice, a middle-aged composer falls for a beautiful adolescent boy. The movie’s opening scene limns a powerful contrast between the ill-fated impresario and a muscular longshoreman in his seventies, who loads the agonized tourist’s massive luggage and advises him about a deceptive gondolier. Visconti’s magical sequence captures the proudly ...

This cross-sectional study examined the associations among perceived vulnerability to disease, aging knowledge, and ageism (positive and negative) in a sample of undergraduate students enrolled in a human development course (N = 649; M age = 19.94 years, SD = 2.84 years). Perceived vulnerability to disease and aging knowledge were associated with self-reported ageist behaviors. Undergraduates w...

Although the nearly one in seven Americans who have disabilities share many characteristics, the attitudes toward and the programs, care models, expenditures, and goals for people with disabilities differ substantially across age groups in ways that suggest ageism. Expenditures per recipient are substantially higher for younger individuals with disabilities, largely as a result of more effectiv...

Issues around egregious abuse, such as violence and financial abuse have been commanding the attention of most social science researchers studying the maltreatment of older persons since the late 1970s. The more subtle, everyday experiences of disrespect, which arguably is a precursor to more notorious forms of abusive and violent behaviour; or respect which, arguably, can prevent such abuse fr...