Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging, Brown School of Social Work, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Silver School of Social Work and Center for Health and Aging Innovation, New York University, New York City, New York, USA.
Gerontologist. 2024 Jul 1;64(7). doi: 10.1093/geront/gnad156.
This essay argues for a fuller integration of ageism and age discrimination into the productive aging framework. We briefly review the productive aging scholarship and the extent to which ageism has been considered in regard to working, volunteering, education, and caregiving. We suggest that ageism has not been adequately considered, and we identify how it permeates productive engagement in later life. We introduce modifications to the productive aging framework to more directly capture the roles of ageism and age discrimination in activity engagement and the outcomes achieved. We argue for the integration of key concepts from minority stress theory and critical race theory that may yield important insights for an increasingly diverse older population. We conclude with research directions that will guide intervention development to reduce ageism at the societal, organizational, and individual level.
这篇文章主张将年龄歧视和年龄偏见更全面地纳入到积极老龄化框架中。我们简要回顾了积极老龄化的研究成果，以及在工作、志愿服务、教育和护理方面考虑年龄歧视的程度。我们认为，年龄歧视没有得到充分的考虑，我们确定了它如何渗透到晚年的生产性参与中。我们对积极老龄化框架进行了修改，以更直接地捕捉年龄歧视和年龄偏见在活动参与和所取得的成果中的作用。我们主张将少数群体压力理论和批判种族理论的关键概念纳入其中，这可能为日益多样化的老年人口提供重要的见解。最后，我们提出了研究方向，以指导在社会、组织和个人层面减少年龄歧视的干预措施的发展。
