Community-level age bias and older adult mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

As the older adult population increases, understanding the health effects of bias against older adults is increasingly important. Whether structural forms of age bias predict worse health has received limited attention.

Objective

We hypothesized that communities with greater age bias would have higher mortality among residents aged 65 and older. We expected the association to be unique to age bias, rather than general bias (i.e., sexual minority and racial bias), and that the age bias-mortality association would be strongest in predominantly White and younger communities.

Methods

Explicit and implicit attitudes toward older adults (N = 1,001,735), sexual minorities (N = 791,966), and Black Americans (N = 2,255,808) were drawn from Project Implicit. Post-stra

SUBMITTER: Kellogg AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11293901 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature