Knowledge and interest in ageing: a study of final‐year social work students

Butler's three constructs of ageism in Australasian Journal on Ageing

“…With one exception, the AJA papers in this section serve to illustrate the nature and scope of ageist beliefs amongst health‐care professionals. The eight papers appeared between 1989 and 2016 and variously describe the attitudes and behaviours of nurses, either students or practicing nursing samples across a range of settings (three papers ), gerontology researchers, practitioners and policy makers (one paper ), social work students (one paper ), practicing psychologists (one paper ) and a diverse group of health professionals (health promotion workers, nurses, psychologists, social workers, doctors and physiotherapists (one paper )). The final paper in this section, an opinion piece written in 1999 by Gething , contains recommendations regarding improving attitudes for nurses working in aged care which are still pertinent today.…”

“…Whilst the quantity and quality of contact with older people, the training received, and the age of clinicians coupled with their years of experience may have a beneficial impact, ageist attitudes continue to persist amongst nurses, social workers , psychologists and health‐care professionals in general . The opinion piece by Gething recommended preservice and in‐service, as well as postgraduate education, to combat ageist attitudes and the negativity that surrounds working in aged care.…”

Sliding doors: Did drama-based inter-professional education improve the tensions round person-centred nursing and social care delivery for people with dementia: A mixed method exploratory study

“…Social work students have also been found to express reluctance about working with older people (e.g. Hughes andHaycox, 2006 andFenton andWalker, 2011) although the literature appears consistent in the finding that experience or experiential learning with older people can increase inclination towards this service user group. In the current study, although on first reading the statistical results would appear to suggest that nurses are more intransigent in their views (thus less able to make attitudinal shifts) and less person-centred in their attitudes to working with older people, the focus groups' discussion of the findings offer a different interpretation.…”

Familiarity with biological, psychological and sociological aspects of ageing among adult population

“…Statistički značajna razlika za ovaj ajtem utvrđena je u odnosu na starosnu grupu (F = 7,482; p = 0,001), pri čemu ispitanici iz najstarije grupe (51-65 godina) imaju najniže vrednosti aritmetičke sredine (AS = 0,37), a najmlađi ispitanici (20-30 godina) ostvaruju najviše srednje vrednosti na ovom ajtemu (AS = 0,66). Dobijeni rezultati su saglasni sa ranijim nalazima da nema značajne povezanosti uzrasta i znanja o starenju (Damron-Rodriguez et al, 2004;Hughes & Heycox, 2006), već da odrasle osobe mogu imputirati anksioznost u percepciju vlastitog starenja (Allan & Johnson, 2009). Mnoga istraživanja su potvrdila da osobe u kasnom odraslom dobu imaju nedovoljno znanja o starenju, za razliku od drugih starosnih grupa (Kim et al 2002;Lim, Kim & Kim, 2002;Suh et al, 2012, prema: Ručević i sar., 2015, što je saglasno sa našim rezultatima.…”