Week 8: Ageism

Question 1

What is the definition of old?

Answer 1

Old can be defined as when people stop trying; their mental health tells them they are old.

Question 2

At what age are workers deemed in need of protection from age discrimination?

Answer 2

Age 40: workers are old enough to be deemed in need of protection from age discrimination.

Question 3

At what age can people participate in activities at senior centers?

Answer 3

Age 60: people are eligible to participate in activities at senior centers.

Question 4

At what age can residents live in public housing for elders?

Answer 4

Age 62: residents can live in public housing for elders.

Question 5

What is the term used to describe the age range of 80-85?

Answer 5

80-85: chronicle.

Question 6

What is stereotype embodiment?

Answer 6

Internalization / stereotype embodiment: Implicit expectations becoming self-fulfilling prophecies.

Question 7

What is downward social comparison?

Answer 7

Downward social comparison: Disengage from domains that threaten self-esteem.

Question 8

What are unrealistic beauty norms?

Answer 8

Unrealistic beauty norms contribute to ageism.

Question 9

What is ageism?

Answer 9

Ageism refers to negative attitudes and stereotypes about aging and a tendency to structure society based on the assumption that everyone is young. A socially constructed way of thinking and failing to respond.

Question 10

What are the effects of ageism?

Answer 10

Ageism can cause individual acts of age discrimination and systemic discrimination in services, programs, and facilities.
- Age discrmination involves treating person in enqual due to age
- Ageism is caused for individual acts of discrmination

Question 11

What is age discrimination?

Answer 11

Age discrimination involves treating persons unequally due to age, contrary to human rights law.

Question 12

What percentage of Canada’s population is 65+?

Answer 12

In Canada, 13% of the population is 65+, and by 2036 it will be 25%.

Question 13

What structural barriers can affect aging?

Answer 13

Job discrimination, reliance on labor jobs, poverty, and malnutrition contribute to poor health in old age.

Question 14

What factors affect senior health?

Answer 14

Access to healthcare, mobility, income, transportation, and social support.

Question 15

What is the impact of low income on health?

Answer 15

Low income leads to poorer living conditions, higher disease rates, higher disability rates, and higher mortality rates.

Question 16

How does the environment impact health?

Answer 16

Access to parks, recreational facilities, fresh foods, and transportation/mobility challenges affect health outcomes.

Question 17

What is a major source of inequity in global aging?

Answer 17

A country’s income level is a major source of inequity in global aging and health outcomes.Greater growth in older adults living in poor countries have a poor life expanatcy.

Question 18

What is the Healthy Immigration Effect?

Answer 18

Healthy immigration refers to the health impacts of migration, intersecting with employment, education, and literacy. Migration impacts all of the determinants. Idea that immigrants are healthier than canadians when they first arrive however ovetime, this decreases.

Question 19

Stereotypes Impacts

Answer 19

• Stereoptype embodiement
  Implict expectations become self fulfilling
• Downward social comparsion
• Disengage from domains