Published in Journal of aging and physical activity
This study used a randomized online survey design to examine the potential influence of ageism on physical activity (PA) prescription for hypothetical patients with prediabetes of different chronological ages. Participants included 356 kinesiology students who were randomly assigned to one of four conditions. Each condition presented a clinical cas...
Published in Journal of aging & social policy
A policy imperative in light of population aging in the United States is to increase employment among older workers. However, age discrimination, especially in hiring, can impede efforts to encourage older people to work longer. This commentary reviews evidence on age discrimination and laws prohibiting age discrimination, and discusses recent cour...
Due to the aging workforce, older workers, especially in the healthcare industry, must remain employable. However, older healthcare workers may face age discrimination that can limit their employability chances. In this study, we examined (a) the causal direction of the relationship between age discrimination and internal employability and (b) diff...
Published in Gerontology & geriatric medicine
Ageism may have harmful effects on the psychological well-being of older adults, leading to mental health issues, such as depression and anxiety. However, there are insufficient data to establish this hypothesis, and most work on the subject has appeared only in the form of conceptual or theoretical papers. This study reviewed quantitative studies ...
In spite of the increased attention to the intersection of people’s various social, cultural, economic and political locations, the discriminations that come with old age are often neglected in gender studies. Some have even pointed to the inadvertent ageism in the field (e.g. Calasanti et al., 2006). While in social gerontology there is considerab...
The age of forced retirement of the group of air traffic controllers at 65 years, provided for by disp. add. 4th Law 9/2010, which regulates the provision of air traffic services, is not discriminatory, being justified by the purpose of avoiding negative consequences that may arise from the impact that factors such as the high level of stress, shif...
The purpose of this study was to explore the buffering role of opportunities for professional development within the frame of the indirect relationship between workplace age discrimination (as a job demand) and job performance on a sample ofN= 325 Italian teachers. Results of moderated mediation analysis indicated that emotional exhaustion mediates...
Forced retirement is a complex, contradictory and conflictive figure, which allows the establishment of a limit to the right to work as a mechanism to create employment. This figure has been the object of numerous modifications throughout the democratic period and intense jurisprudence that has come to define its legitimacy and scope. It is of spec...
Much of what has been written about decreased work ability is based on quantitative studies and has been written from the perspective of professionals, service providers or authorities. In our qualitative study, we sought to understand how affected individuals themselves perceive and experience the multifaceted factors that are related to their dec...
This paper employs an intersectional lens to explore menopausal experiences of women working in the higher education and healthcare sectors in Australia. Open-text responses from surveys across three universities and three healthcare settings were subject to a multistage qualitative data analysis. The findings explore three aspects of menopause exp...
