Examined the effect of empathy training on empathy, self-exploration, and key attitudes in older people. Older people (N=28) were assigned to empathy training, discussion, or control groups. The training group improved significantly on three measures of empathy. The training group also showed significant gains in self-exploration but not in…

Using data from the 1992 and 1994 waves of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), this study described reasons reported by pre- and early-retirement populations for perceived changes in global health status over a 2-year period. It then analyzed the association between self-perceptions of change and the actual changes in objective health…

Studied the responses of children aged four to seven to photographs of older adults. Results indicated age discrimination was highly accurate by age six. Most expressed positive views of activities shared with grandparents but identified older adults in general as sad, lonely, and not busy. (Author/JAC)