Table of Contents

• About the Editors
  
• Contributors
  
• Foreword (Robert N. Butler)
  
• Preface
  
• List of Entries
  
• 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 of 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
  
• Reference Notes Included
  

About the Author

Erdman B. Palmore, Laurence Branch, Diane Harris