{"id":5106,"date":"2018-11-06T09:06:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T09:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpol.qub.ac.uk\/?p=5106"},"modified":"2018-11-06T09:06:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T09:06:25","slug":"imagining-future-selves-childrens-attitudes-older-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/imagining-future-selves-childrens-attitudes-older-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagining their Future Selves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Our recent article \u2018Imagining their Future Selves: Children\u2019s Attitudes to Older People and their Expectations of Life at Age 70<\/a>\u2019 published in the journal Children & Society<\/a> provided an insight into children\u2019s thoughts about older people, and how they imagine their own lives will be when they are older.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So why is this important? Well, we know that the world\u2019s population is ageing<\/a>.  We also know that there has been scare-mongering about the \u2018crisis\u2019 this will cause, especially for the young<\/a>. Added to this, the language used to describe older people almost always has negative connotations; frail, past it, over-the-hill, to name but a few \u2013 which can contribute to a culture of ageism. But Palmore (2015) warns us that countering ageism will be challenging because it is so much a part of our culture that most people are not even aware of it. Importantly, if children take on board the ageist stereotypes they see around them, will these attitudes towards older people influence their future expectations of life as an older person?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Katrina Lloyd<\/strong> is a lecturer in Education at Queen\u2019s University Belfast. She is Director of the Kids\u2019 Life and Times survey which is a constituent part of ARK<\/a>, a joint initiative between Queen\u2019s University and Ulster University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paula Devine<\/strong> is Director of the Northern Ireland Life and Times survey, and co-Director of ARK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gemma Carney<\/strong> is a social gerontologist and lecturer in social policy at Queen\u2019s University Belfast. She is a member of the ARK research team where she works on public engagement and the ARK ageing programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The featured image<\/a><\/em> has been used courtesy Getty Images and of a <\/em>Creative Commons license. <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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