December 4, 2020

Negative Age Stereotypes Associated with Older Persons’ Rejection of COVID‐19 Hospitalization

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Public Health Policy and Practice

Keywords (Tags): health care setting

• Negative stereotypes about older age significantly predicted a rejection of hospitalization among older individuals who were sick with COVID-19, but not among younger people holding negative age stereotypes in a survey of individuals (n = 1590) from April to May 2020. The authors highlight the need for future research examining the extent to which the negative age stereotypes of older persons are contributing to pandemic deaths and how they might be mitigated.

Levy et al. (Dec 3, 2020). Negative Age Stereotypes Associated with Older Persons’ Rejection of COVID‐19 Hospitalization. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16980