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Looking forward: A systematic review of children and young people’s perceptions of old age

Looking forward: A systematic review of children and young people’s perceptions of old age. Findings from the review:. Adverts and media often portray and reinforce ageist attitudes Ageing and older people are often associated with disability, dementia, inactivity, and dependency

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Looking forward: A systematic review of children and young people’s perceptions of old age

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  1. Looking forward: A systematic review of children and young people’s perceptions of old age

  2. Findings from the review: • Adverts and media often portray and reinforce ageist attitudes • Ageing and older people are often associated with disability, dementia, inactivity, and dependency • Couper and Pratt have called for the education on ageing to be a high priority for all who play a role in education and socialising young children.

  3. Findings: • “Aging education should be integrated across the lifespan in our homes, schools and communities”. • “It is a national imperative for people to be educated about aging” • Address the barriers for ageing education: • New and unfamiliar topic • Teaching materials are not available • Lack of training on the topic

  4. Findings: • Few studies have focused on the benefits of intergenerational programs to the elderly • Researchers have not given children the opportunity to express, in their own words, how IG programs have affected their attitudes • A call to use more than one method of measurement-triangulate • Most intergenerational programs are not integrated into school-based curriculum

  5. Way forward: • Identify gaps in knowledge • Identify priorities for research • UK lagging far behind United States in ageing education research and implementation (Bernard & Phillips 2000) • Research needed to “help the intergenerational field reach its potential for contributing to the transformation of societal institutions” (Kuehne 1999) • Systematic research has not “kept pace with the explosive growth of intergenerational programs” (Kaplan 2001)

  6. Way forward • Launch of report “Looking forward: A systematic review of children and young people’s perceptions of old age” April 2008 • Fellowship (commencing September 2008) • Development of proposal for submission to potential funders (2008)

  7. Way forward: • Over to you… • Feedback from Session 2 • Discussion of priorities for research

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