
Disrupting Ageism
From Theory to Practice
- 1st Edition - June 1, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Tracey Gendron
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 3 8 2 7 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 3 8 2 8 - 1
In Disrupting Ageism: From Theory to Practice, the chapters delves deep into the pervasive issue of ageism in society. In part one, readers are guided through an eye-opening journe… Read more

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Request a sales quote- Provides evidence that is grounded in gerontological theory, the evidence-based and gerontological practice
- Addresses topics including how ageism intersects with other forms of oppression, how ageism is a form of trauma, and how ageism can be related to abuse in later life
- Presents an examination of solutions to combat ageism in various domains of society
- Focuses on the construction of elderhood, both at the societal and individual levels
1. Ageism and Physical Health
2. Ageism and Brain Health
3.Ageism, identity and trauma
4. Ageism and Other forms of discrimination (emphasis on ableism)
5. Ageism and Abuse
Part 2. Ageism in Society: Solutions
6. Ageism in Health Care
7. Ageism as an Industry
8, Ageism in Media, Entertainment and Culture
9. Aging in Policy, Politics and Law
Part 3. Ageism in the Future
10. Intergenerational Programming and Adult Education
11. Societal Construction of Elderhood
12. Individual Construction of Elderhood
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 1, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 275
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443338274
- eBook ISBN: 9780443338281
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Tracey Gendron
Tracey Gendron, PhD, is a professor and Chair of the Department of Gerontology and the Executive Director of the Virginia Center on Aging at Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Gendron has a Master of Science in Gerontology, a Master of Science in Psychology, and a doctorate in Developmental Psychology. She is also the author of the book Ageism Unmasked: Exploring Age Bias and How to End it. Her research is focused on the language, expression, and perpetuation of ageism and aging anxiety as well as on elderhood as a stage of development. Her personal and professional goal is to understand, raise awareness of, and disrupt the deeply embedded, normalized, and invisible ageism that is within us all.