Stereotypes of Old People Persist. A Swedish “Facts on Aging Quiz” in a 23-year Comparative Perspective

In 2005, as well as in 1982, almost 90 percent of Swedes subscribed to the stereotype that retirement pensioners suffer from loneliness and more than half of Swedes also believed that pensioners suffer from boredom and dissatisfaction with life. Little seems to have changed for the better, or even...

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Main Author: Lars Tornstam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linköping University Electronic Press 2007-07-01
Series:International Journal of Ageing and Later Life
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Online Access:https://journal.ep.liu.se/IJAL/article/view/1162

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