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Ageism revised and the provision of psychological services.
Margaret Gatz,Cynthia Pearson +1 more
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This article is published in American Psychologist.The article was published on 1988-03-01. It has received 146 citations till now.read more
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This Old Stereotype: The Pervasiveness and Persistence of the Elderly Stereotype
TL;DR: The authors investigate the persistence of the evaluatively-mixed nature of the elderly stereotype and investigate the type of discrimination that elderly people often endure, concluding that the mixed elderly stereotype is unique to American culture.
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Ageism: Prejudice Against Our Feared Future Self
TL;DR: This article highlighted the current empirical and theoretical work by researchers in gerontology, psychology, communication, and related fields on understanding the origins and consequences of stereotyping and prejudicing against older adults.
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An introduction to occupational science : A foundation for occupational therapy in the 21st century
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the roots in the rich traditions of occupational therapy and its current configuration and specifications which the science needs to meet as it is further developed and refined are presented.
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Occupational science: A new source of power for participants in occupational therapy
TL;DR: The core courses constituting the new doctor of philosophy degree in occupational science are described and assumptions supporting occupational science such as the importance of skill, holism, and an optimistic view of human nature are made explicit.
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Cognitive Behaviour Therapy with Older People
TL;DR: Beck et al. as mentioned in this paper presented a Gerontology for Cognitive Therapists to work effectively with older people: knowledge and skills, and CBT for late-life depression.
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Six-Month Prevalence of Psychiatric Disorders in Three Communities: 1980 to 1982
Jerome K. Myers,Myrna M. Weissman,Gary L. Tischler,Charles E. Holzer,Philip J. Leaf,Helen Orvaschel,James C. Anthony,Jeff Boyd,Jack D. Burke,Morton Kramer,Roger K. Stoltzman +10 more
TL;DR: Six-month prevalence rates for selected DSM-III psychiatric disorders are reported based on community surveys in New Haven, Conn, Baltimore, and St Louis based on data gathered on more than 9,000 adults using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule.
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Annual review of gerontology and geriatrics
Carl Eisdorfer,K. Warner Schaie,George L. Maddox,M. Powell Lawton,John E. Morley,Douglas K. Miller +5 more
TL;DR: This volume provides an overview of each component of the acute and long-term care service continuum, including managed health care, subacute care, nursing homes, community care case management, and private case management.
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Senile dementia of the Alzheimer type.
Robert D. Terry,Robert Katzman +1 more
TL;DR: Physiological aspects of Alzheimer's disease include a diffusely slow electroencephalogram, reduced cerebral blood flow, and particular patterns noted on positron emission tomographic scanning, thus excluding ischemia from possible pathogenetic factors.
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Perceptions of the Elderly: Stereotypes as Prototypes
TL;DR: This paper explored the structure of young persons' perceptions of the elderly within the framework of Eleanor Rosch's theory of natural categories and found that behavioral and personality associations were stronger for "prototypic" instances of the different subcategories than for less prototypic instances.