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Introduction: reducing ageism is one of the most important factors to increase life satisfaction among the elderly. Ageism in the society can be observed and search able in various institutions. One of the sources for search ageism is the media and specially cinema. Therefore, the purpose of this study is representing  the elderly role’s charactericties in the Iranian movies Durnig the last 30 years(1989-2018).
Method: This is a descriptive-analytical study of quantitative content analysis.  The sample of this study includes 65 elderly roles from 41 films focusing on the elderly, which were selected by purposive sampling of Iranian movies in the last 30 years. The data collection tool in this study was Magoffin checklist for Older Characters in Movies. Descriptive statistics of frequency and percentage were used to describe the characteristics of the role of the elderly and Chi-square test was used in SPSS software version 23 to analyze the relationships.
Results: The results showed that in the examined films, the majority of the elderly who were shown were young old (52.3%) male (72.3%) and of Persian ethnicity (89.2%) .The genre of most films (44%) was drama and mostly played a minor role (49.2%). But the elderly were active and independent (55.4%); but in general, most of the stereotypes were related to the elderly (58.5%) and only 32.3% of the stereotypes were positively represented. Negative stereotypes were more common in older men (59.6%) than older women, and older women were more represented with positive stereotypes (38.9%); But this difference was not statistically significant (p <0.05).  The most common age stereotypes in the last 30 years have been John Wayne conservative (positive) and Despondent (negative) age stereotypes. , although The trend of changes in stereotypes in the last 30 years is positive, has not been statistically significant (p <0.05).
 Conclusion: The results showed that the representation of the role of the elderly in Iranian films During the last 30 years portrayed ageism and negative stereotypes more than positive and neutral stereotypes and in recent years there has been no significant change. Therefore, it is necessary to pay more attention to media interventions related to the elderly and the production of films focusing on the elderly; To promote active aging and increase the respect and social inclusion of the elderly in society.

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Introduction: Ageism develops from childhood, and examining children’s attitudes towards old age can help in understanding the situation and planning for successful aging. Therefore, the aim of this study was to analyze the content of primary school students' paintings in Izeh city to determine their attitudes towards older adults.
Method: The method of this study was quantitative content analysis. First, 145 students were selected by simple random sampling method in the ages of 6–12-year-old in Izeh city in 2019. Then, 284 elderly male and female characters drawn by these students were included in the study as the analysis unit. The Danowski checklist, the Tree diagram and descriptive statistics such as frequency and percentage, as well as inferential statistics such as Chi-square and multivariable logistic regression were used to analyze the data.
Results: The mean age of students was 9.28 (±1.85). Analysis of students' drawings showed that although more than half of the drawings (69.4%) portrayed positive stereotypes the grandparents, 88.8% of students did not like getting old and only 23.4% of students had a positive view toward old age. Logistic regression findings showed that being a boy increased the probability of portraying elderly with negative stereotypes by 5 times (OR=5.620; CI=1.34-23.63) and with increasing age more negative stereotypes were observed in students' drawings (OR=1.50; CI=1.03-2.20).
Conclusion: Considering the increase of negative stereotypes among students with increasing age and also more negative stereotypes among boys, it is necessary to pay more attention to this issue in educational programming and intergenerational interventions at schools. Early intervention in childhood, can help prevent ageism in the future aging society of Iran.


 

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Introduction: The covid-19 pandemic has caused many injuries and increased mortality in older adults. Timely diagnosis and treatment is related to the reduction of mortality. The present study was designed and implemented by examining the clinical and laboratory findings before hospitalization of older adults with coronavirus disease, in order to find the relationship between these findings and the mortality risk of these patients.
Method: During a retrospective descriptive-analytical study, the file information of 534 older adults patients admitted to Dr. Gharazi Hospital in Isfahan in the spring of 1400 with the diagnosis of covid-19 was randomly selected. The diagnosis of the disease was based on the findings of lung CT scan and PCR. Statistical analysis was performed by SPSS version 24 software using chi-square statistical tests, t-test and multinomial logistic regression.
Results: Average age was 72.49 ± 8.76 years in the study. At the end of hospitalization, 124 patients (23.2%) died. The average age of deceased patients was significantly higher than other patients. In the analysis of the data, it was found that history of diabetes (Exp (B): 1.84, 95%CI: 1.032-3.284, P=0.039), decreased oxygen saturation (O2sat<90%) (Exp (B): 5.80, 95%CI: 5=15.37-2.19, P<0.001), increased absolute number of neutrophils (>8000/mcL) (Exp (B): 2.41, 95%CI: 1.36-4.29, P=0.003), increased C-Reactive Protein (CRP) ) (>150mg/dl) (Exp (B): 1.94, 95%CI: 1.10-3.41, P=0.021) were significantly predictive of death in older adults with coronavirus infection.
Conclusion: The present study showed that increasing age, diabetes, decrease in oxygen saturation, increase in neutrophils and increase in CRP are independent prognostic factors predicting death in older adults with Coronavirus infection. Which can reduce the mortality of older adult’s people with corona by identifying it in time.