Virtual Aging and Langerian Psychology of Possibility (Revisiting the Medical Disempowering Models of Aging)

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The schema produces derogatory implications in its practical domain in that working with the elderly is considered as something inferior as “Working with older people is seen as focusing on custodial activities that lack the “excitement” and status of other fields of social work practice” [3]. The schema and its associative labels have also given rise to a loss of voice for the elderly in that they consider themselves as disempowered, helpless, unable and incompetent.

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تاریخ انتشار 2014