Exploring the influence of income and geography on access to services for older adults in British Columbia: a multivariate analysis using the Canadian Community Health Survey (Cycle 3.1) [0.03%]
收入和地理对英属哥伦比亚省老年人获得服务的影响：利用加拿大社区健康调查（第三阶段一卷）的多元分析结果探讨
Diane E Allan,Laura M Funk,R Colin Reid et al.
Diane E Allan et al.
Existing research on the health care utilization patterns of older Canadians suggests that income does not usually restrict an individual's access to care. However, the role that income plays in influencing access to health services by olde...
Mark Speechley
Mark Speechley
PubMed lists over 6,000 references (700 reviews) on unintentional falls in older adults. This article traces key methodological milestones in the application of epidemiologic methods since the earliest publications in the late 1940s. Within...
Carlos A Reyes-Ortiz,James S Goodwin,Dong D Zhang et al.
Carlos A Reyes-Ortiz et al.
The study objective was to examine the association, among older persons with cutaneous melanoma, between areal socioeconomic status (SES) and receiving chemotherapy. SEER-Medicare-linked database (1,239 white men and women aged ≥ 66, with ...
Psychosocial issues in engaging older people with physical activity interventions for the prevention of falls [0.03%]
针对老年人跌倒预防开展身体活动干预过程中遇到的心理社会问题
Samuel R Nyman
Samuel R Nyman
This article presents an overview of the psychosocial factors that influence older people's participation in physical activity interventions to prevent falls. The importance of psychosocial factors is stressed inasmuch as interventions will...
Goals and personal resources that contribute to the development and agency attachment of older adult volunteers [0.03%]
目标和个人资源对老年志愿者的发展和代理依附的贡献
Alayna A Gillespie,Benjamin H Gottlieb,Scott B Maitland
Alayna A Gillespie
We examined the volunteer service contribution of older adults (N = 100) to volunteer role development and agency attachment. Informed by a developmental regulation framework and socio-emotional selectivity theory, we tested a twofold hypot...
Social Network Data Validity: The Example of the Social Network of Caregivers of Older Persons with Alzheimer-Type Dementia [0.03%]
以老年痴呆患者的照料者社会关系网为例看社会网络数据的有效性
Normand Carpentier,Francine Ducharme
Normand Carpentier
This article offers reflection on the validity of relational data such as used in social network analysis. Ongoing research on the transformation of the support network of caregivers of persons with an Alzheimer-type disease provides the da...
Hospitalization rates of nursing home residents and community-dwelling seniors in British Columbia [0.03%]
BC养老院居民和社区老年人住院率
Lisa A Ronald,Margaret J McGregor,Kimberlyn M McGrail et al.
Lisa A Ronald et al.
The overall use of acute care services by nursing home (NH) residents in Canada has not been well documented. Our objectives were to identify the major causes of hospitalization among NH facility residents and to compare rates to those of c...
Elaine C Wiersma,Alison Pedlar
Elaine C Wiersma
The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine the experiences of older adults with dementia while they were in long-term care and while they were in a summer-camp setting. Participant observation and interviews took place in both set...
"We only own the hours": discontinuity of care in the British Columbia home support system [0.03%]
“我们只能拥有这些小时”论加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省居家支持系统中护理的间断性
Zena Sharman,Arlene Tigar McLaren,Marcy Cohen et al.
Zena Sharman et al.
This article uses the concept of continuity of care to examine the implications of health-system restructuring for workers and staff in the BC home support system. Home support primarily serves frail seniors living in poverty and has the po...
Mall walking as a physical activity option: results of a pilot project [0.03%]
mall步行作为体育活动的选择：一项试点项目的成果
S Nicole Culos-Reed,Lynette Stephenson,Patricia K Doyle-Baker et al.
S Nicole Culos-Reed et al.
The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility and benefits (fitness and quality of life) of an 8-week mall-walking program. A total of 52 participants ( n = 39 at post-testing) took part in the pilot project (mean age = 66.4; rang...