Prevailing beliefs suggest that Eastern cultures hold older adults in higher esteem than
Western cultures do, due to stronger collectivist traditions of filial piety. However, in modern …

Ageism has been shown to have a negative impact on older people's health and wellbeing.
Though multiple scales are currently being used to measure this increasingly important …

Age is the only social category identifying subgroups that everyone may eventually join.
Despite this and despite the well-known growth of the older population, age-based prejudice …

Background/Study Context: Research largely shows no performance differences between
older and younger employees, or that older workers even outperform younger employees …

Population ageing is escalating rapidly now worldwide. This is an important time to
determine if ageism or discrimination against older people is of concern, such as it being …

While aging anxiety is associated with the threat of deterioration that leads to death, death
anxiety is related to the threat of non-existence and to fears from an unknown afterlife, and …

Abstract Purpose of the Study: Little research has examined factors that contribute to the
formation of attitudes toward one's own aging. The current study aimed to examine …

Implicit intergroup biases are automatically activated prejudices and stereotypes that may
influence judgments of others on the basis of group membership. We review evidence on …

Ageist attitudes ingrained within societies lead to negative health outcomes for older
generations. Face-to-face storytelling is one method that is effective in combating negative …

This study evaluated whether two evidence-based methods used collaboratively,
intergenerational colearning and use of films/documentaries in an educational context …