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- 2. “More training in geriatrics and gerontology is needed
for health care providers in order to improve their
attitudes toward and competencies for working with
older people and their families.”
Hooyman & Kiyak (2008)
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- 4. Community & University Partners
• Geriatric Training and Education initiative
administered by the Virginia Center on Aging
• VCU Council for Community Engagement
Funders
• VCU Department of
Gerontology
• VCU School of Pharmacy
• VCU Department of Dance
& Choreography
• VCU Department of
Physical Therapy
• VCU School of Social Work
• VCU School of Dentistry
• Senior Connections
• Age Wave
• Weinstein JCC
• Visual Arts Center of
Richmond
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- 6. Structure of PALETTE Programs
Student and senior volunteers
partner to participate in:
– 5 creative art classes
– 1 cultural outing
– 1 opening reception/final
showcase
Students and senior volunteers
separately attend:
– 1 orientation & training
seminar
– 1 reflection seminar
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- 7. AGEISM & STEREOTYPES OF AGING
If you’ve met one older adult, then you’ve met one older adult!
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- 8. BE HONEST: HOW MANY OF THE FOLLOWING
COMMENTS HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED TO
BE TRUE?
• Older adults are often confused/don’t know what’s going
on.
• Older adults are lonely and unhappy with their lives.
• Older adults are conservative and stuck in their ways.
• Older adults are unable to adapt to change or learn new
things.
• Older adults have no interest in nor capability of engaging
in sexual activity.
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- 9. Do you say “aaawww, isn’t she cute?”
when you see an older woman doing
something a younger person might do
(e.g., kissing her partner, playing a game)?
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- 10. AGEISM & INFANTILIZING
• How we treat older adults is influenced by social factors including
personal assumptions, expectations, and fears about growing older
• Infantilizing of older adults (“aww isn’t she cute?”) carries a negative
connotation and devalues the individual
• Most people believe that old age = physical disabilities, poor health, an
inability to think clearly & quickly, and having a negative outlook on life
• Research has shown that health care professionals are significantly
more negative in their attitudes toward older patients than they are
toward younger patients
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- 11. • Birthday card aisle
• Anti-aging
movement
• Lack of positive
images in ads & on
TV
• Demeaning
language
MANIFESTATION OF AGEISM IN
SOCIETY
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- 12. • Businesses
• State welfare
funds
• Human service
professionals
• Graduate
education
PERPETUATION OF AGEISM IN
INSTITUTIONS
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- 13. HOW YOU CAN AVOID
PROMOTING AGEISM
• Recognize and explore your own feelings and attitudes toward aging
Pay attention to the way you communicate with older adults
• Correct ageist stereotyping
Help others to understand the dangers of infantilizing older adults
• Avoid using ageist terms and language
They come up more often than we even realize! “little old lady”
“over the hill” “one foot in the grave”
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- 14. Since its launch in 2013…
• Over 170 older adults and interprofessional students engaged in
PALETTE programs
• Evaluation results show:
• Improved students attitudes
toward older adults and
aging
• Decreased student aging
anxieties
• PALETTE fostered an
environment for:
– building strong intergenerational relationships
– engaging older adults with their peers
– highlighting the individualities of older adults
– “giving older adults center-stage”
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- 21. SOURCES
• Chop, W. C., & Robnett, R. H. (1999). Gerontology for the health care professional (2nd ed.). Philadelphia, PA: F.A. Davis.
• Cohen, G (2006). The creativity and aging study: The impact of professionally conducted cultural programs on older adults. NEA Final Report No
4-30-06. Washington, DC: National Endowment for the Arts.
• The Gerontological Society of America (2012). Communicating with older adults: An evidence-based view of what really works.
Retrieved December 12, 2013, from http://www.agingresources.com/cms/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/GSA_Communicating-
with-Older-Adults-low-Final.pdf
• Grabinski, C. J. (2007). 101 careers in gerontology. New York: Springer Pub.
• Hooyman, N. R., & Kiyak, H. A. (1988). Social gerontology: A multidisciplinary perspective. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
• Knowles, M. (1984). The Adult Learner: A Neglected Species (3rd Ed.). Houston, TX: Gulf Publishing.
• National Alliance for Caregiving & AARP. (2004). Caregiving in the U.S. Washington, DC.
• Projections of Future Growth of the Older Population. Retrieved from Administration on Aging website: http://www.aoa.gov/
Aging_Statistics/future_growth/future_growth.aspx
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interviews. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry,18(7):567–575.
• Robinson, Barry (1994). Curriculum module on aging. School of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley.
• US Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Aging (2011). A profile of older americans: 2011. Retrieved from
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• Vincent, G. K., & Velkoff, V. A. (2010). THE NEXT FOUR DECADES: The older population in the United States: 2010 to 2050. Retrieved
from US Census Bureau website: http://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/p25-1138.pdf
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