Valuing old age: the relationship between societal value and health outcomes in the elderly

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Attribute Name	Values
Creator	Owings, Taylor
Abstract	This project looks at the relationship between social value and health outcomes among elderly individuals. It looks at the World Values Survey for an international view on how different societies view the elderly populations and compares it to the life expectancy rates in those societies. This research also addresses the impact poverty can have on both social value and health outcomes. This research uses Symbolic Interactionism for a theoretical base. Based on the theory of Symbolic Interactionism, the way people interact with the elderly in society will help them construct their own identity as an aging human. Symbolic Interactionism would claim that there is a positive relationship between societal value and the health outcomes of the elderly and that in societies that place higher value on the aging, the elderly will be physically and mentally healthier and vice versa. This analysis found that when controlling for poverty there is a significant relationship between the societal value of the elderly and health outcomes.
Resource Type	Research Paper
Date Available	2015-04-06T13:59:34+00:00
Date Issued	2014-03
Degree Level	Bachelor's
Degree Name	Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Advisor	Jennings, Breandan
Non-Academic Affiliation	Oregon State University. Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and the Arts (URSA)
Déclaration de droits	In Copyright
Publisher	Oregon State University
Peer Reviewed	No
Language	English [eng]
Replaces	http://hdl.handle.net/1957/55541

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