Strengths And Weaknesses Of Ageism

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Ageism is a prejudice against someone because of their age, labelling the elderly as Senile, useless, incompetent. Ageism causes people to forget they were once young, ageism assumes that the elderly have nothing to offer in the world .It creates an ignorance towards what the elderly want to accomplish in life and it also hurts the elderly. This report is going to investigate and analyse the policies or legislative put in place for Ageism against the elderly .Furthermore the author is going to critically evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of ageism and age discrimination policy for the current wellbeing of the elderly people living in residential homes. The author will also emphasize more on the impact of the policy has on the elderly people and its contribution towards the way service users are conceptualised in the UK. The report will also look at other contributing aspect such a the activity theory, conflict theory and Disengagement theory.

According to NHS most doctors and nurses have admitted that most of the elderly patients have been denied treatment because of their age , for example patients with cancer they are being dismissed when they should not be dismissed and this is ageism but people do not even realize it .Sometimes this discrimination is because older people do not ask they just keep quiet and if do not ask you not receive anything and no one cares , because they belong to the older generation where they were never used to ask but just give and this is happens i most Care Home across the UK , hospitals and clinics .The worst case scenario is for the elderly patients with cancer because these care providers are right because the medications are very strong and they are very risky for elderly people to t...

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