How do your values & attitudes influence how we see & treat older people?

Answer 1

Older folk deserve our care and respect. I reckon that is how I was raised. They have experienced so much, and made sacrifices that I wonder how many young folks now would have had the guts to make.
They look at us....and shake their heads and they just can not understand why we do the things we do to screw up our lives. They lived..for the most part...lives anchored by the basic values of respect for home and family.
There is much we can learn from them....if we would just listen awhile.

Answer 2

This sounds like a question from your instructor...

But in treating all patients, we can not help but carry our values, attitutes and prejudices with us. It is natural for those beliefs that we have been raised with and around to affect the way we treat others.

There is a basic value in the way I was raised and educated to respect and care for the elderly. In many ways it seems this is less true in todays culture. I feel that it has a great deal to do with the "Graying of America" As our population lives longer and as the "Baby Boomer" generation creeps into seniority, there is an ever enlarging senior citizenry. For prior generations people usually died around their late 60s and early 70s, now men are living into their mid to late 70s and women into their 80s, and many are now living into the 90s and even 100s. As these older generations become more common it will be natural for them to be ignored as just part of the populace by the younger people. This will reflect in their treatment of the elders.

Answer 3

treat elders like they are your very own grandmother or grandfather. They deserve the very best out of you.

Answer 4

"It is not who you really are but what you do that defines you"

Besides John Maxwell once said: "Image is what others believe we are. Integrity is what we really are".

Are you writing an essay or sth?