Elder care as "frustrating" and "boring": understanding the persistence of negative attitudes toward older patients among physicians-in-training [0.03%]
令人沮丧和枯燥:了解医学生对老年患者负面态度的持续存在原因
Robin T Higashi,Allison A Tillack,Michael Steinman et al.
Robin T Higashi et al.
Objectives: This study explores the attitudes of physicians-in-training toward older patients. Specifically, we examine why, despite increasing exposure to geriatrics in medical school curricula, medical students and resi...
Josefin Eman
Josefin Eman
Drawing on interviews with 22 athletically active old men and women, the study explores whether and how the practice of sports can affect old adults' processes of sense-making about old age and the process of growing old in ways that challe...
Miriam S Moss,Sidney Z Moss
Miriam S Moss
Little research focuses on the ways that bereaved family members react to and make meaning of their experience of the death of an elderly father and husband. In a qualitative, ethnographic study of 34 bereaved families we examined how famil...
Kathy L Rush,Mary Ann Murphy,Jean Francois Kozak
Kathy L Rush
Risk is a multifaceted and complex concept that mediates quality of life through the balance between risk taking and risk avoidance. Society expects older adults to identify and manage their personal risks yet little is known about the mean...
Mary Breheny,Christine Stephens
Mary Breheny
Strategies to maintain independence for older people have received considerable attention as a social policy solution to the financial and social impact of the ageing population. Critical scholars in gerontology have also highlighted the ne...
Mothers, daughters and midlife (self)-discoveries: gender and aging in the Amanda Cross' Kate Fansler series [0.03%]
母女同途,寻觅天年——论安德莉亚·卡塞克斯的南希·弗伦萨系列小说中的性别与衰老主题
Emma Domínguez-Rué
Emma Domínguez-Rué
In the same way that many aspects of gender cannot be understood aside from their relationship to race, class, culture, nationality and/or sexuality, the interactions between gender and aging constitute an interesting field for academic res...
Stakeholder perspectives on transitions of nursing home residents to hospital emergency departments and back in two Canadian provinces [0.03%]
加拿大两个省的护理机构居民转至急诊科及其回转的相关方视角
C A Robinson,J L Bottorff,M B Lilly et al.
C A Robinson et al.
Major gaps exist in our understanding of transitions in care for older persons living in nursing homes. The purpose of the study was to identify key elements, from multiple stakeholder perspectives, that influence the success of transitions...
Being part of an enacted togetherness: narratives of elderly people with depression [0.03%]
被纳入在一起:老年人抑郁症患者的叙述故事
Anneli Nyman,Staffan Josephsson,Gunilla Isaksson
Anneli Nyman
In this article, we explored how five elderly persons with depression engaged in everyday activities with others, over time, and how this was related to their experience of meaning. Repeated interviews and participant observations generated...
The living arrangements of older immigrants from the former Soviet Union: a comparison of Israel and the United States [0.03%]
来自苏联的老年人移民的生活安排:以色列与美国的比较研究
Jeffrey A Burr,Ariela Lowenstein,Jane L Tavares et al.
Jeffrey A Burr et al.
With the unprecedented emigration from the former Soviet Union (FSU) during the 1990s as context, this study described the living arrangements of older FSU immigrants living in Israel and the US. Living arrangement choices represented an im...
Comparative Study
Journal of aging studies. 2012 Dec;26(4):401-9. DOI:10.1016/j.jaging.2012.05.002 2012
Grief in the initial adjustment process to the continuing care retirement community [0.03%]
继续护理退休社区初始适应过程中的悲伤情绪
Liat Ayalon,Varda Green
Liat Ayalon
This paper examined the transition to continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) within the framework of anticipatory and disenfranchised grief. Qualitative interviews with 29 residents and 19 adult children were conducted. Three major ...