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Keywords:

ageism anxiety education geriatrics

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Area of Science:

Gerontology
Healthcare Professional Studies
Social Psychology

Background:

Improving care for the aging population is a critical clinical need in the US.
Ageism and negative attitudes among healthcare professionals can adversely affect older adult care.
Understanding these attitudes is crucial for enhancing geriatric healthcare.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate healthcare professionals' views on aging.
To identify factors influencing ageism in healthcare workers.
To analyze the relationships between aging anxiety, expectations, age, knowledge, and ageism.

Main Methods:

Path analysis models were used to examine relationships between key variables.
The study included 140 healthcare professionals.
Factors analyzed included aging anxiety, expectations regarding aging, age, ageism, and knowledge.

Main Results:

Aging anxiety indirectly influenced ageism through negative expectations regarding aging (β = -0.27).
Aging knowledge (β = -0.23), age (β = -0.27), and expectations regarding aging (β = -0.48) directly and inversely influenced ageism.
Expectations regarding aging had the strongest inverse relationship with ageism.

Conclusions:

Increased knowledge about aging can reduce healthcare professionals' ageism.
Addressing negative expectations regarding aging is key to combating ageism.
Practitioner education is a valuable tool for improving care for older adults by reducing ageism.