Tracey Gendron

Ageism Unmasked

Exploring Age Bias and How to End It

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Produktbeschreibung

What if everything you thought you knew about aging was wrong? This bold historical account helps explain how ageism has seeped into our lives, slowly and silently shaping our own misconceptions about aging--and about ourselves. Ageism Unmasked takes a journey through time to reveal how politics, technology, religion, media, and medicine have shaped a modern aging narrative that bears little resemblance to reality. Aging is a process, and it doesn't just happen to old people. We are all aging every moment of our lives. Ageism is reflexively forming opinions about people, and how we interact with them, based on their age. And we all do it, without thinking about it. Ageism is so deeply infused in our thinking, language and actions that it is practically invisible. Even attempts to be anti-ageist fall into perilous traps that perpetuate, rather than discourage, ageism. Ageism Unmasked will help readers let go of our desperate need to stay young, appreciate how we all age, and reset our expectations for getting old.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Steerforth Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9781586423223
• ISBN-10: 1586423223
• Artikelnr.: 62227988

Autorenporträt

With over 25 years of experience as a grant-funded researcher and a nationally recognized speaker, Dr. Tracey Gendron has spoken about ageism in forums across America and has also appeared on numerous podcasts and video productions, particularly highlighting those understudied and underrepresented groups at increased risk of adverse health outcomes based on discrimination. Dr. Gendron has a master’s degree in Gerontology, a master’s degree in Psychology, and a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology. She serves as Chair for the VCU Department of Gerontology and Executive Director of the Virginia Center on Aging. Dr. Gendron may be reached at TraceyGendron.com

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction      
Chapter 1 – Complicated from the Beginning       
Chapter 2 – The Era of Technology and Medicine              
Chapter 3 – Entitlements: Ageism and Ableism at Work  
Chapter 4 -  Retirement as a Life Stage and Successful Aging         
Chapter 5 – The Era of Manipulation: Anti-Aging Culture
Chapter 6 – The (Mis)Information Age    
Chapter 7 – The Era of a Global Pandemic             
Chapter 8 – Elderhood