{"id":993,"date":"2016-10-19T12:33:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T11:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=993"},"modified":"2016-11-03T12:35:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T12:35:07","slug":"psychologists-contribute-to-bma-report-on-ageing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2016\/10\/19\/psychologists-contribute-to-bma-report-on-ageing\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychologists contribute to BMA report on ageing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kent Psychologists have found that perceptions of ageing can mean older people being subjected to prejudice.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Their findings were contained in a new report that warns that the UK\u2019s fragmented health and social care system is failing older patients.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bma.org.uk\/about-us\">British Medical Association <i class=\"fa fa-external-link\"><\/i><\/a> (BMA) and entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bma.org.uk\/collective-voice\/policy-and-research\/public-and-population-health\/healthy-ageing\"><em>Growing older in the UK<\/em> <i class=\"fa fa-external-link\"><\/i><\/a>, the report highlights the increasing demand and inadequate resources facing the UK\u2019s health and social care system.<\/p>\n<p>Kent Psychologists\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/swifth\/\">Dr Hannah Swift<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/abramsd\/\">Professor Dominic Abrams <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/druryl\/\">Lisbeth Drury<\/a>\u00a0found that perceptions of ageing can mean that older people are subjected to \u2018patronising forms of prejudice\u2019, which can be expressed in the language and tone used to communicate with them.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more, please see\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/society\/11218\/psychologists-contribute-to-bma-report-on-ageing\" target=\"_blank\">Kent News Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Psychologists have found that perceptions of ageing can mean older people being subjected to prejudice. Their findings were contained in a new report that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2016\/10\/19\/psychologists-contribute-to-bma-report-on-ageing\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14803,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140626,3684,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}