Palmore, Erdman B. <br/><br/>
Encyclopedia of Ageism. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (366 pages) 
<br/><br/>Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Abuse in nursing homes -- Abuse by elders in nursing homes -- Advertising -- African Americans -- Age conflict -- Age denial -- Age inequality -- Age norms -- Age segregation -- Age stratification -- Aged as a minority group -- Ageism in the Bible -- Ageism survey -- Age-specific public programs -- Alcoholism -- Antiaging medicine -- Architecture -- Art -- Arts -- Assisted living -- Attribution theory -- Benefits of aging -- Biological definitions of aging -- Blaming the aged -- Books -- Botox -- Cards -- Change strategies -- Changes in attitudes -- Children's attitudes -- Children's literature -- Churches -- Cohorts -- Consent to treatment -- Cost-benefit analysis -- Costs of ageism -- Criminal victimization -- Cross-cultural ageism -- Cultural lag -- Cultural sources or ageism -- Definitions -- Demographic trends -- Dentistry -- Disability -- Discounts -- Disengagement theory -- Driver's license testing -- Education -- Employment discrimination -- Ethical issues -- Euphemisms -- Face-lifts -- Facts on Aging Quiz -- Facts on Aging and Mental Health Quiz -- Family -- Financial abuse -- Functional age -- Future of ageism -- Generational equity -- Geriatrics -- Gerontocracy -- Gerontology -- Health care -- Hispanics -- History -- HIV/AIDS -- Hollywood -- Housing -- Human rights of older persons -- Humor -- Hypertension -- Individual sources of ageism -- Intergenerational projects -- Isolation -- Japan -- Journalism -- Language -- Legal review program -- Legal system -- Literature -- Living wills -- Mandatory retirement of judges -- Measuring ageism in children -- Medical students -- Memory and cognitive function -- Memory stereotypes -- Mental illness -- Modernization theory -- Nursing -- Nursing homes. Organizations opposing ageism -- Patronizing -- Pension bias -- Perpetual youth -- Physical therapy -- Politics -- Positive Aging Newsletter -- Public policy -- Reducing ageism -- Responses to ageism -- Retirement communities -- Role expectations -- Scapegoating -- Self-fulfilling prophecy -- Semantic differential scale -- Senior centers -- Sexism -- Sexuality -- Slogans -- Social psychology -- Social Security -- Societal ageism -- Songs -- Stage theory -- Stereotypes -- Subcultures -- Successful aging -- Suicide -- Tax breaks -- Television -- Terms preferred by older people -- Theories of aging -- Transportation -- Types of ageists -- Typologies -- Unconscious ageism -- Voice quality -- Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781135422943 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ageism.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ1061.E63 2004 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.26/03