Changing older adult stereotypes through children and nursing homes
“What’s considered a sexual risk for an old person? Not wearing a diaper?”
“How about old people just stop having sex?”
These comments from an Internet social media “discussion” group on older adult AIDS prevention reflect blatant eldercare bias. They are just more of many examples of negative stereotypes about them that are embedded in our society. Not only do they affect older adults who are currently victimized by them, they also …