"Small" things matter: residents' involvement in practice improvements in long-term care facilities [0.03%]
“小事”重要吗？长期护理机构中居民参与改善实务的影响研究
Femke Boelsma,Vivianne E Baur,Susan Woelders et al.
Femke Boelsma et al.
Purpose of the study: The process of involving older clients with regard to their care arrangements has been the subject of previous studies. However, a more general overview of the issues addressed by older people living...
Hanne Laceulle,Jan Baars
Hanne Laceulle
In late modern circumstances, aging individuals are confronted with the task of creating a meaningful individual life trajectory. However, these personal narratives are situated in the context of broader cultural narratives. It is argued th...
Laura Hurd Clarke,Erica V Bennett,Chris Liu
Laura Hurd Clarke
Textual and visual representations of age are instructive as they suggest ideals towards which individuals should strive and influence how we perceive age. The purpose of our study was to investigate textual and visual representations of la...
Challenging stereotypes? The older woman in the TV series Brothers & Sisters [0.03%]
打破成见吗？电视连续剧《兄弟姐妹》中的成熟女性形象分析
Maricel Oró-Piqueras
Maricel Oró-Piqueras
The TV series, Brothers & Sisters, broadcast from 2006 to 2011 by ABC (USA) and a year later by Channel 4 (UK) with quite high audience rates, starts when the patriarchal figure, William Walker, dies of a heart attack and two female figures...
Wellbeing in retirement villages: eudaimonic challenges and opportunities [0.03%]
退休村的幸福感：通向目的幸福的挑战与机遇
Rebecca C Chandler,Oliver C Robinson
Rebecca C Chandler
A retirement village consists of a collection of privately owned or leased flats or maisonettes for elderly adults that are supported by a central hub that provides catering, medical care and social activities. There have been studies of th...
Tam E Perry
Tam E Perry
While discussions of accessibility, mobility and activities of daily living frame relocation studies, in older adulthood, the paper explores the emotional motivation of gift giving as a rationale for moving. This ethnographic study investig...
THE CULTURAL ADVERSITY OF PHYSICAL DISABILITY: Erosion of Full Adult Personhood [0.03%]
文化层面的身心障碍问题：完整成人身份的丧失
Mark R Luborsky
Mark R Luborsky
Adversities facing people with disabilities include barriers to meeting daily needs and to social life. Yet, too, fundamental social devaluation erodes an individual's capacity to retain title to the cultural category of a full person. Thes...
Women narrate later life remarriage: Negotiating the cultural to create the personal [0.03%]
女性再婚叙事：在文化与个人之间寻求平衡
Wendy K Watson,Nancy J Bell,Charlie Stelle
Wendy K Watson
Narrative provides a window to experience in a way that is different from traditional research methods. In this study, narrative affords both a holistic vantage point on later life relationships, and at the same time, a "view from the insid...
Minimizing confusion and disorientation: cognitive support work in informal dementia caregiving [0.03%]
化解困惑与方向迷失：痴呆非正式照护中的认知支持工作
Brandon Berry
Brandon Berry
Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews, I explain how informal dementia caregivers attempt to reduce the affected individual's moments of confusion and disorientation through cognitive support work. I identify three sta...
Tornstam's notion of gerotranscendence: re-examining and questioning the theory [0.03%]
汤斯坦的“老龄超越”理论再思考
Albert J Jewell
Albert J Jewell
Lars Tornstam's attractive theory that there is an ultimate developmental stage that is the perquisite of the very old has caused controversy and generated a large volume of literature. In this article, Tornstam's threefold categorisation o...