Ageism and Person-Centred Care - Rehabilitating Bias for Age-Friendly Practice

This thought-provoking book exposes the values, judgements, and hierarchies that underlie ageism in care settings. Destabilizing the assumption that biases like ageism are always bad, Buetow suggests that ageism is normatively neutral and that truly person-centred care requires situated acknowledgement of and responsiveness.

List of contents

Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
PART I
Engagement with ageism in care
2 Factors predisposing to engagement with ageism
3 Barriers to engaging with ageism
4 Terror, ageism and sexuality
PART II
Propelling ageism forward in care
5 Revisiting bias: Drawing from history to advance ageism
6 Judging bias like ageism
7 Addressing biases akin to ageism: Offend sometimes, shame rarely
8 Moral values for engaging with bias and ageism
9 Prudent ageism: A person-centred approach

About the author

Stephen Buetow is Associate Professor of General Practice and Primary Health Care at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Summary

This thought-provoking book exposes the values, judgements, and hierarchies that underlie ageism in care settings. Destabilizing the assumption that biases like ageism are always bad, Buetow suggests that ageism is normatively neutral and that truly person-centred care requires situated acknowledgement of and responsiveness.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Buetow, Stephen (University of Auckland Buetow, Buetow Stephen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.08.2024
• EAN: 9781032368351
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3236835-1
• No. of pages: 158
• Series: Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, MEDICAL / Public Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, MEDICAL / Nursing / Gerontology, Personal & public health, Geriatric nursing, Medical Sociology, Personal and public health / health education, ageism;healthcare