“They Do Not Know How To Use Their Health Insurance Card”: Implementation of Active Aging Policy and Aging Perceptions in Romanian General Practitioners

Crăciun, Catrinel

doi:10.1007/s12126-015-9239-x

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“…Present findings lend support to previous literature showing that medical personnel tends to have rather negative images of old age (Walter et al, 2010;Craciun & Flick, 2015;Craciun, 2016). Having a negative image of aging may reflect on how they treat older patients and contribute to the maintenance of negative stereotypes related to old age (Craciun, 2016).…”

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confidence: 89%

“…GPs represent the gate keepers within the Romanian health system, and older individuals cannot benefit from specialist consultations or medicine at reduced price without a recommendation from the general practitioner. In a previous study, it was shown that Romanian doctors have negative views of old age and older persons (Craciun, 2016). This study goes further to investigate whether representations of aging differ between female and male GPs and whether they are treating gender differently concerning aging male and female patients.…”

Section: Aging In Romaniamentioning

confidence: 78%

“…A positive view of aging means that they see the potential for development and experiencing positive emotions in old age, while negative images of aging mean associating old age with illness and dependency (Levy, 2003;Wurm, Tomasik, & Tesch-Römer, 2010). Previous studies showed that health professionals had more negative images of aging (Walter et al, 2010;Craciun & Flick, 2015;Craciun, 2016). The present study wants to go further and explore whether GPs treat men and women differently Gender may play a role in how GPs relate to aging for several reasons.…”

Section: Health Professionals and Aging Representationsmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…Medical treatment and communication imply not only providing accurate medical advice, but also transmitting ideas about positive aging (Craciun & Flick, 2015) or gender sensitive advice in old age (Reitinger & Beyer, 2010;Foster & Walker, 2014). Nevertheless, active aging policy recommendations (Lassen & Moreira, 2014) might not be easily integrated in busy medical schedules and ideas about active aging that might be accepted in Western contexts may not be popular in Eastern European contexts (Craciun, 2016). Furthermore, older patients may be the target of double stereotyping and discrimination in terms of both age (Levy, 2003) and gender (Palència, 2014).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, older patients may be the target of double stereotyping and discrimination in terms of both age (Levy, 2003) and gender (Palència, 2014). The present article seeks to add to existing literature on aging representations in medical personnel (Liu, Norman, While, 2013;Walter, Flick, Neuber, Fischer, Hussein, Schwartz, 2010) and experiences of general practitioners with older patients (Craciun & Flick, 2015;Craciun, 2016;Flick, Garms-Homolova, Rönsch, 2012) by exploring how the gender of general practitioners plays a role in their aging representations and how they perceive older women versus older men as patients.…”

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confidence: 99%

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(De)Gendering Older Patients: Exploring Views on Aging and Older Patients in Romanian General Practitioners

Crăciun

2016

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Abstract. Purpose: Demographic changes make it necessary to improve communication with older patients and design gender sensitive health promotion. The present article aimed to explore how general practitioners see old age and what role gender may play in their representations of aging. It also looked whether the gender of the older patients played a role for how general practitioners treated them. Methods: Episodic interviews were conducted with 17 women and 17 men who worked as general practitioners in Romania. Thematic coding was used to analyze data. Results: Findings showed that general practitioners saw old age as negative no matter their gender. Older patients were perceived as difficult and mostly older women were given as negative examples to illustrate treatment non-adherence and psychological or social problems related to aging. Conclusion: Negative aging views combined with a (de)gendering of aging patients may lead to maintain negative aging stereotypes and gender inequality in old age. Implications for preventing this from happening are discussed.Keywords. Aging views, active aging, general practitioners, gender, older patients.Resumen. Propósito: Los cambios demográficos hacen necesario mejorar la comunicación con pacientes mayores y diseñar promoción de la salud sensible al género. El presente artículo explora cómo médicos generales perciben la adultez mayor y qué rol puede jugar el género en sus representaciones sobre el envejecimiento. También examina si el género de los pacientes mayores jugó un rol en la forma en la que los médicos generales los trataron. Métodos: Se llevaron a cabo entrevistas episódicas con 17 mujeres y 17 hombres que trabajaron como médicos generales en Rumanía. Se usó codificación temática para analizar los datos. Resultados: Los hallazgos mostraron que los médicos generales ven la adultez mayor como negativa sin importar el género. Se percibió a los pacientes mayores como difíciles y se mencionó principalmente a mujeres como ejemplos negativos para ilustrar falta de adherencia al tratamiento y problemas psicológicos y sociales relacionados con el envejecimiento. Conclusión: Ejemplos de envejecimiento negativo combinados con una invisibilización del género de los pacientes puede guiar hacia el mantenimiento de estereotipos negativos sobre el envejecimiento y la desigualdad de género en la adultez mayor. Se discuten implicaciones para prevenir que esto pase.Palabras clave. Perspectivas de envejecimiento, envejecimiento active, médicos generales, género, pacientes mayores.

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