Lifelong learning in active ageing discourse: its conserving effect on wellbeing, health and vulnerability [0.03%]
积极老龄化背景下的终身学习及其对老年人福祉、健康和脆弱性的保守作用
Miya Narushima,Jian Liu,Naomi Diestelkamp
Miya Narushima
The Active Ageing Framework has been adapted as a global strategy in ageing policies, practices and research over the last decade. Lifelong learning, however, has not been fully integrated into this discourse. Using survey data provided by ...
Social network members who engage in activities with older adults: Do they bring more social benefits than other members? [0.03%]
参与与老年人互动的社交网络成员更多吗？他们比其他成员带来更多的社会收益吗？
Sato Ashida,Daniel K Sewell,Ellen J Schafer et al.
Sato Ashida et al.
Active participation in social activities is important for the well-being of older adults. This study explored benefits of active social engagement by evaluating whether relationships that comprise active involvement (e.g., co-engagement in...
The power(s) of observation: Theoretical perspectives on surveillance technologies and older people [0.03%]
观察力：关于监控技术与老年人的理论视角
W Ben Mortenson,Andrew Sixsmith,Ryan Woolrych
W Ben Mortenson
There is a long history of surveillance of older adults in institutional settings and it is becoming an increasingly common feature of modern society. New surveillance technologies that include activity monitoring, and ubiquitous computing,...
It was all planned … now what? Claiming agency in later life in reforming China [0.03%]
计划之后呢？改革开放时代的中国老年人的能动性问题
Jiayin Liang,Baozhen Luo
Jiayin Liang
This study explores the social construction of agency and wellbeing among 20 Chinese urban retirees aged between 50 and 82 years old (averaging 67), with a special focus on the impact of earlier life experiences in shaping later-life pathwa...
Clare Holdsworth,Martin Frisher,Marina Mendonça et al.
Clare Holdsworth et al.
Older people consume less alcohol than any other adult age group. However, in recent years survey data on alcohol consumption in the United Kingdom have shown that while younger age groups have experienced a decline in alcohol consumption, ...
Active subjects of passive monitoring: responses to a passive monitoring system in low-income independent living [0.03%]
被动监视下的主动主体：对低收入独立生活者的被动监测系统的反应
Clara Berridge
Clara Berridge
Passive monitoring technology is beginning to be reimbursed by third-party payers in the United States of America. Given the low voluntary uptake of these technologies on the market, it is important to understand the concerns and perspectiv...
Family size and old-age wellbeing: effects of the fertility transition in Mexico [0.03%]
家庭规模与老年人的福利：墨西哥生育率下降的影响
Carlos Díaz-Venegas,Joseph L Sáenz,Rebeca Wong
Carlos Díaz-Venegas
The present study aims to determine how family size affects psycho-social, economic and health wellbeing in old age differently across two cohorts with declining fertility. The data are from the 2012 Mexican Health and Ageing Study (MHAS) i...
Paul Simpson,Maria Horne,Laura J E Brown et al.
Paul Simpson et al.
Sexuality and intimacy in care homes for older people are overshadowed by concern with prolonging physical and/or psychological autonomy. When sexuality and intimacy have been addressed in scholarship, this can reflect a sexological focus c...
Female disability disadvantage: a global perspective on sex differences in physical function and disability [0.03%]
女性残疾劣势：身体功能和残疾的性别差异的全球视角
Felicia V Wheaton,Eileen M Crimmins
Felicia V Wheaton
The objectives were to determine whether women always fare more poorly in terms of physical function and disability across countries that vary widely in terms of their level of development, epidemiologic context and level of gender equality...
Retirement migration, the 'other' story: caring for frail elderly British citizens in Spain [0.03%]
养老移民的“另一面”：在西班牙照料年老体弱的英国公民
Kelly Hall,Irene Hardill
Kelly Hall
Recent years have seen a growth in research on retirement/lifestyle migration to Spain, however this has tended to focus on the reasons for moving, as well as the lifestyles adopted as part of a healthy and active retirement. However, agein...