1. Is Ageism a Silent Evil: Appraising the Youth Perspectives toward Elderly.
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Dhami, Manisha, Joshi, Neha, and Sharma, Seema
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AGEISM , *OLDER people , *GOOD & evil , *AGE discrimination - Abstract
The current research aimed to explore the attitude of randomly selected 220youths of Uttarakhand(110 males and 110 females), having different socio-demographic backgrounds, towards the old. This quantitative study employed a cross-sectional questionnaire. A selfstructured socio-demographic questionnaire andFarboni Scale of Ageism (FSA) developed by Fraboni, et al., (1990) were employed to measure ageism. The result revealed that the majority of youth respondents had high ageism. A significant gender difference in mean scores of ageism levels was reported with higher ageist attitudes among females. Further ageism was found to be significantly higher among respondents having no exposure to living with the elderly or having financially dependent elderly as compared to their counterparts. The study validates the results of other studies that report higher ageism among the young population globally. A programme focusing on youth education regarding ageing and related changes need to be developed by stakeholders to promote and sustain a positive ageist attitude towards the elderly population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023