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Brandon J. Arellano
UTEP
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The conducted research discovered possible connections with UTEP’s colleges and
discrimination against the elderly as well as practices in society. Establishing the connection will
be made first hand since my major is in business therefore it will be easy to establish a
connection since with my Intro to Global Business class, Adding to my means of research; a
monogram, articles, and studies. The sources give knowledge and support of how discrimination
of old people has impacted society, laws were passed to prevent it in the workplace. Ageism is
Society has transformed from holding elders in high regards to ridiculing and disrespecting them.
Research Questions
people?
References
The age discrimination in employment act of 1967. (1976). Harvard Law Review, 90(2), 380-
According to the law review, the study revealed that age discrimination is based on
“erroneous assumptions about the effects of age on ability” used by businesses out of
mere concern for their economic efficiency. The author noted that the passing of the Age
Fair Labor Standards Act.” This act was passed to prohibit the discrimination of persons
40 years or older in the workplace, some elders were denied health benefits and training
opportunities based on their age. At the time the ADEA only applied to businesses who
Cruikshank, M. (2013). Learning to be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging, Rowman & Littlefield
Publishers.
Cruikshank argues that we must learn to love the changes that happen to our body as we
age, it is not a “natural process” but merely “something we are initiated into.” We believe
that we are responsible for our own aging by the process of “productive aging” which
proves to be untrue. In order to learn how to age healthy it is important to maintain the
key to mindful aging: the ability to think critically and have self-reliance. Although
learning to be old may be difficult, living a healthy life has a great amount of influence
He claims that, we as a society must learn to coexist between “young and old.” Holmes
stresses that it is imperative that we see one another “as part of the wholeness of human
American society.” The results evaluated ageism leads to self-destructive and asocial
behaviors, and supposedly it is passed down from generation to generation, “through the
Nelson, T. D. (2005). Ageism: Prejudice against our feared future self. Journal of Social
Nelson emphasizes the social norm of society is “clearly saying one thing: getting old is
bad.” Recent surveys have discovered that approximately “90 million Americans
purchase or undergo procedures that hide physical signs of aging” each year. It is stated
that age prejudice is one of the “most socially-condoned and industrtiutionalized forms of
predjudice” and is overlooked, for example a statement explains the transition of the
treatment of Elder Adults being held in high regards to being useless in the industrial
revolution to their current status today. Today the negative attitudes towards the elderly
society.”
Santora, J. C., & Seaton, W. J. (2008). Age discrimination: Alive and well in the
from http://www.jstor.org/stable/27747450
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The authors insinuate that despite our high levels of mortality older people are still
eliminated from the workplace even though they are a “talented and experienced segment
of the population.” 120 cases were examined by the two and in their examination, they
discovered that both men and women experienced “approximately the same frequency in
age discrimination cases.” While reviewing the cases the authors reported an interesting
discovery “race apparently has little to do with age discrimination.” After reviewing their
findings of the study led them to the conclusion that “age discrimination is unfortunately
Stones, M. J., & Stones, L. (1997). Ageism: The quiet epidemic. Canadian Journal of Public
from http://www.jstor.org/stable/41992752
The authors insist society has had little to no success in “eradicating the ageism
epidemic.” They believe that ageism takes both positive and negative forms, obviously
negative ageism being the most encountered between the two. The journal article
provides information of surveys done by the authors as they questioned High School and
College students about “basic questions about aging and age.” The students
“overestimated the proportions of older people with cognitive and physical illness, and
magnitude of normal age changes.” The research revealed that students were hardly given
any information of aging and elderly people during their school careers. Our education
Filinson R., & Ingman S R, Elder abuse: Practice and policy (1989) .(Eds.), . 233 Spring Street
The authors argue that physical abuse is not the prevalent form of abuse as elderly people
are attacked verbally, financially, and are generally neglected. Findings from A O’Malley
research team revealed “3 distinct categories of abuse.” The first is general neglect, the
needs of an impaired elder person going untreated by their caregiver. The second usually
who are not caregivers.” Their argument is based on the most socially condoned practices
of discrimination, usually when people hear the term “elder abuse” they think an elderly
person is physically abused by their caretaker but that is never the case as studies proved
they suffer more from verbal and financial abuse, being exploited financially.