Care dependence in old age: preferences, practices and implications in two Indonesian communities [0.03%]
印尼两个社区中老年人的护老依赖:偏好、惯例及其影响
Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill,Tengku Syawila Fithry
Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill
The provision of physical care is a sensitive matter in all cultures and is circumscribed by moral injunctions and personal preferences. Research on Western cultures has shown care networks to be narrow subsets of people's wider networks an...
More than A to B: the role of free bus travel for the mobility and wellbeing of older citizens in London [0.03%]
超越A到B:伦敦老年人免费公交旅行在出行和福祉方面的角色
Judith Green,Alasdair Jones,Helen Roberts
Judith Green
This study contributes to the literature on mobility and wellbeing at older ages through an empirical exploration of the meanings of free bus travel for older citizens, addressing the meanings this holds for older people in urban settings, ...
Peter Orpin,Christine Stirling,Sharon Hetherington et al.
Peter Orpin et al.
Primary carers provide much of the day-to-day care for community-dwelling people living with dementia (PWD). Maintaining that contribution will require a more in-depth understanding of the primary carer role and the support needs that flow ...
Do Adults Adjust their Socioeconomic Status Identity in Later Life?* [0.03%]
老年人口会根据自身社会经济状况调整身份认知吗?
Jennifer C Cornman,Noreen Goldman,Amy Love Collins et al.
Jennifer C Cornman et al.
Previous research shows that socioeconomic status (SES) identity, also referred to as perceived or subjective social status, is shaped by objective measures of status, socio-cultural influences and psychological attributes and predicts curr...
Kim Boudiny
Kim Boudiny
'Active ageing' is a topic of increasing attention in scientific and policy discussions on ageing, yet there is no consensus on its actual meaning. The current paper proposes a detailed classification of various definitions that have been u...
A longitudinal analysis of the impact of family support on the morale of older parents in Japan: does the parent's normative belief in filial responsibilities make a difference? [0.03%]
日本老年人精神状态的家庭支持影响因素的追踪分析:父母有关子女责任的规范信念起到什么作用?
Emiko Takagi,Yasuhiko Saito
Emiko Takagi
Japan presents a unique social laboratory in which to examine how family support impacts on older adults' psychological wellbeing. This is because of its cultural climate where distinctively different expectations of old-age independence an...
Sharon Koehn
Sharon Koehn
The 'Barriers to Access to Care for Ethnic Minority Seniors ' (BACEMS) study in Vancouver, British Columbia, found that immigrant families torn between changing values and the economic realities that accompany immigration cannot always prov...
David J Ekerdt,Mark Luborsky,Catherine Lysack
David J Ekerdt
Techniques of possession research among older people tend to accentuate their prizing of things and their use of special dispositions to achieve the protection or 'safe passage' of things as they transfer to a new owner. Such efforts on beh...
Migration, social structure and old-age support networks: a comparison of three Indonesian communities [0.03%]
迁移、社会结构与养老支持网络:印度尼西亚三个社区的比较研究
Philip Kreager
Philip Kreager
Contemporary trends in population ageing and urbanisation in the developing world imply that the extensive out-migration of young people from rural areas coincides with, and is likely to exacerbate, a rise in the older share of the rural po...
Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill,Ruly Marianti
Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill
Identifying vulnerable older people and understanding the causes and consequences of their vulnerability is of human concern and an essential task of social policy. To date, vulnerability in old age has mainly been approached by identifying...