Attitudes toward Younger Generations by the Elderly

Attitudes toward Younger Generations by the Elderly

Introduction

The growth of the older adult population globally brings new challenges to the community, especially health personnel who directly or indirectly make any kind of attention to themselves. In social psychology, attitudes are valuable elements for the prediction of behavior. The attitude refers to a sentiment in favor or against a social object, which can be a person, a social event or product humana1 activity.

The general population develops a series of attitudes towards certain group of people or to certain sector of the population, these attitudes, whether positive or negative influence especially in people, being the negative attitudes that most consequences bring adults greater. According to the last census in 2007, seniors correspond to 9.1% of our population and will increase to 13.25% for 2025. A rapid increase in population will inevitably create an increase in demand for trained professionals with experience in the care of geriatric patients (Boström et.al, 2009).

The biomedical staffs has a key role in providing care to older people and are an important influence on the quality of your care position. It is noted that certain voluntary and involuntary negative attitudes such as rejection, mistreatment, gestures, poor communication, restriction therapy, among others towards older adults, play a major role in the health welfare of these; finding that may become depressed , have low self esteem and not feel understood, insecure load monitoring indicated therapy, opting to change the assigned treatments alter the drug doses, schedules and method of ingesting and follow medical guidelines for effective treatment, evidencing distrust of the medical staff and provide greater credibility to third parties or empirical, as a result causing impaired quality of life.

Collison wrote: "Unfortunately our society still tends to hold a negative attitude toward aging and the elderly." Many health workers believe that older patients are too old to learn or understand, to make decisions about their care and to be cared for. Others see all older people as a growing burden on society because they are unproductive, increasingly fragile and vulnerable, with a decrease of their abilities to perform activities of daily living. The health system places great emphasis on curing the disease rather than the person's attention. Seymour wrote: "Cura relates to the diagnosis and treatment of disease while attention refers to assessments and interventions used to make judgments about the welfare of the person?

"Ageism" (ageism) refers to a systematic process of stereotyping and discrimination against a group of people based on chronological age. The "ageism" allows younger people to see older people as different from themselves, so subtly cease to identify older people as human beings. Negative attitudes influence the attitudes of health professionals, since they are often based on erroneous assumptions about the usefulness of chronological age as a marker of the function or the ability to contribute to society (Arvaniti et.al, 2009).

This study aims to perform the Validation of a Scale of Attitudes toward the elderly Kogan (Kogan's Attitudes towards Older People: KAOP) ...