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Attitudes to Ageing

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This chapter provides an overview of age-based attitudes and stereotypes, how they originate and are perpetuated in society, and the challenges and opportunities they present for individuals and the community. It examines intergenerational attitudes (younger to older, older to younger), who is most likely to be affected by age discrimination, and the available evidence on how these attitudes and stereotypes are manifested in the workplace, media, public institutions, the health care system and policy discourses and strategies. It considers the impacts on older people themselves as well as legislative and policy initiatives aimed at developing more constructive views on ageing and older people.

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    These survey items on intergenerational attitudes have been replicated in the 2015–2016 Australian Survey of Social Attitudes to provide comparative data on any change in attitudes over the period, especially in the context of policy changes related to population ageing.

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  1. Ageing, Work and Health Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Lidcombe, NSW, 2141, Australia

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  3. Centre for Research on Ageing, Health and Wellbeing, Research School of Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia

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O’Loughlin, K., Kendig, H. (2017). Attitudes to Ageing. In: O’Loughlin, K., Browning, C., Kendig, H. (eds) Ageing in Australia. International Perspectives on Aging, vol 16. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6466-6_3

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