The lobby as an arena in the confrontation between acceptance and denial of old age

Researching Ageism in Health-Care and Long Term Care

“…Most studies on ageism in long-term care involve residents in long-term institutions (Ayalon 2015;Bodner et al 2011;Dobbs et al 2008;Doyle 2014;Gamliel 2000;Lagace et al 2011Lagace et al , 2012Macdonald and Butler 2007;Roth et al 2012Roth et al , 2015Taverna et al 2014;Zimmerman et al 2014). Ayalon (2015) reported a prominent general view of old age as a sign of decline and decay.…”

“…In long-term care, however, where older individuals interact both with caregivers and other residents for longer periods of time and with a more general goal of addressing both physical and psychological wellbeing of the care recipients, issues related to self-directed ageism are more salient. The empirical research on ageism in long-term care includes studies on ageist attitudes among older individuals themselves (Ayalon 2015) and discriminatory behaviors towards other older aged groups (Roth et al 2012), as well as how these attitudes and behaviors are shaped by the specificities of the community or residential care environment (Gamliel 2000;Bodner et al 2011).…”

“…Researchers generally choose a semi-structured format for interviews, although structured, open and in-depth interviews are also common, and often complement them with other data collection methods. Focus groups and participant observation are also commonly employed methods, in conjunction with interview based data collection (Makris et al 2005;Skirbekk and Nortvedt 2014;Billings 2006;Gamliel 2000;Lagace et al 2011) but also as the principle data collection method (Iliffe et al 2005). Less prevalent in the empirical literature is the use of document analysis (Petersen and Warburton 2012).…”

Waiting is the hardest part: a model of uncertainty navigation in the context of health news

“…People who accept their circumstances can seek meaning in their suffering, reduce their dread over what lies ahead and seek social support to cope (Gamliel, 2000). Acceptance often involves cognitive responses that entail looking for reasons why the negative event occurred, i.e., sense-making and focusing on positive changes resulting from the tragedy, i.e., benefit-finding (Davis et al, 1998;Rabow & McPhee, 1999).…”

‘I take a small amount of the real product’: Elevated cholesterol and everyday medical reasoning in liminal space

“…The liminality is the in-between grey area between the two defined and known everyday categories. For instance Tova Gamliel (2000) describes the experiential tension of the lobby in nursing homes as liminal. Furniture, placement, and the environment of the lobby are metaphors for old age, frailty, and death.…”