1st Edition

Ageism and Person-Centred Care Rehabilitating Bias for Age-Friendly Practice

166 Pages

by Routledge

166 Pages

by Routledge

166 Pages

by Routledge

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Description

This thought-provoking book exposes the values, judgements, and hierarchies that underlie ageism in care settings. Destabilizing the assumption that biases like ageism are always bad, Buetow suggests that ageism is normatively neutral and that truly person-centred care requires situated acknowledgement of and responsiveness to its negative and positive aspects. Buetow contends that respecting... Read more

Contents

Illustrations
Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

PART I

Engagement with ageism in care

2 Factors predisposing to engagement with ageism

3 Barriers to engaging with ageism

4 Terror, ageism and sexuality

PART II

Propelling ageism forward in care

5 Revisiting bias: Drawing from history to advance ageism

6 Judging bias like ageism