A social work perspective on how ageist language, discourses and understandings negatively frame older people and why taking a critical social work stance is …

F Duffy - British Journal of Social Work, 2017 - academic.oup.com
As populations age around the globe, social workers will have more and more contact with
older people, particularly in the practice fields of health care and social care services …

Navigating the choppy waters to Nirvana: A critical reflective account of caring for ageing parents in the fourth age

A McInnes - Ageing & Society, 2022 - cambridge.org
This article revisits a paper and from an autoethnographic/critical reflective biographical
approach re-examines seven cultural notions or myths, which may encourage ageism. It is …

'Acopia'and 'inability to cope'remain unhelpful and pejorative labels for complexity in older adults presenting to the acute hospital

AH Dyer, D Ryan, S O'Callaghan - Age and Ageing, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Sir, Older adults make up an increasing proportion of those attending acute hospital services
and present with increased complexity and acute illness severity in comparison to their …

Admissions for Presumed Social Reasons: Epidemiology, Risk Factors, and Hospital Outcomes

JC Mah, S Searle, K Koller, G Latariya… - Canadian Journal of …, 2023 - utpjournals.press
“Social admission” is a non-diagnostic label referring to an admission to a hospital for which
no medical or health condition is deemed amenable to reversibility or rehabilitation; rather …