Ageizm in elderly people perception and its influence on social health of advanced and senile age population
The negative influence of ageizm on social health of the advanced and senile age population locates in the article on the basis of questionnaire data. Negative gerontostereotypes as an ageizm component, on one hand, determine discriminatory practices at their carriers, reducing the elderly people access to the social capital, on the other hand, cause their self-discrimination, self-isolation, causing a social illness.