BNURS20 Nursing
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Ageism is the discrimination against people in terms of their age. Ageism poses a challenge to older people and has harmful effects on their health. It makes them overlooked in terms of employment, media stereotypes them, restriction from social services and also excluded from the community. Media can be biased and at the same time have high tendencies in promoting reliance on stereotypes(Dionigi, 2015). Their reference to older workers in terms of skills and qualities affect their employment negatively. They associate older workers with poor health and low productivity which have a greater and long-lasting impact on them as it creates opportunities for age discrimination. This evokes fear for older people as being inadequately valued (Palmore, Branch & Harris, 2016). They step aside to avoid confrontations with employers (Abrams, Swift & Drury, 2016).
When it comes to caring for residents, stereotypes based on race, socioeconomic status, weight, age and gender affect people. For example, viewing nursing homes as institutions for housing people waiting to die affects the family and their loved one making them feel guilty about their decisions which can affect their health mentally and physically. There are also notions that older people are mean and bitter, have no family and cannot take care of themselves(Dionigi, 2015). These stereotypes affect the care of the resident in such a way that they feel dissatisfied with their care, distrustful of their doctors and health issues like hypertension while some may avoid the care (Chasteen, et al, 2015) (Makris, et al, 2015).
To some extent, I have always thought that the aged people under carehave no family. And those who have are not loved by them and that is why many are taken to the healthcare facility to ease the burden to the family members. Most of them also cannot take care of themselves, need assistance and are lonely with no visitors.
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