Journal articles: 'Older adult'

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Lavela, Sherri L., and Nazneen Ather. "Psychological health in older adult spousal caregivers of older adults." Chronic Illness 6, no. 1 (March 2010): 67–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1742395309356943.

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Objectives: The need for informal caregiving has been rapidly increasing across several countries. Spouses comprise a sizeable segment of informal caregivers and typically represent an older cohort with special health concerns. The objective of this review was to examine psychological health outcomes in older adult spouses caring for older adults. Methods: Literature review/synthesis (1999—2009). Results: Compared to demographically matched married non-caregiving controls, older adult spousal caregivers experienced more cognitive functioning difficulties, strain, distress, stress, loneliness, depression, anxiety and poorer mental health. Caregivers of spouses with cognitive impairments, quite often wives, were especially affected by poor psychological health, as were caregivers who were new to the caregiving role and those who rated caregiving as stressful. Psychological health improved when the caregiving role ceased. Discussion: Several poor psychological outcomes were found in older adults caring for their spouses; the magnitude of which varied and were more pronounced under certain circumstances. To preserve caregiver health, maintain recipient health and care quality and avoid exceeding system of care capacity, efforts are needed to provide support to older adult spousal caregivers and recipients. Couples may need to be assessed as a unit, taking gender and cultural considerations into account, and additional resources may be required.

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Kabadayi, Sertan, Kejia Hu, Yuna Lee, Lydia Hanks, Matthew Walsman, and David Dobrzykowski. "Fostering older adult care experiences to maximize well-being outcomes." Journal of Service Management 31, no. 5 (March 16, 2020): 953–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/josm-11-2019-0346.

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PurposeCaring for older adults is an increasingly complex and multi-dimensional global concern. This article provides a comprehensive definition of the older adult care experience and discusses its key components to help practitioners deliver older adult-centered care to maximize well-being outcomes for older adults.Design/methodology/approachBased on prior research on service operations, service experience, person-centered care and the unique, evolving needs of older adults regarding their care, this paper develops a conceptual framework in which the older adult care experience is the central construct, and key dimensions of well-being are the outcomes.FindingsThe older adult care experience is shaped by older adults' perceptions and evaluations of the care that they receive. Older adult-centered care has autonomy, dignity, unique needs and social environment as its core dimensions and results in those older adults feel empowered, respected, engaged and connected as part of their experience. The article also discusses how such experience can be evaluated by using quality dimensions from service operations, hospitality and healthcare contexts, and challenges that service firms may face in creating older adult care experience.Research limitations/implicationsGiven the changing demographics and unique needs of older adults, it is an imperative for academics and practitioners to have an understanding of what determines older adult care experience to better serve them. Such understanding is important as by creating and fostering older adult care experience, service organizations can contribute to individual and societal well-being.Originality/valueTo the authors' best knowledge, this is the first paper to provide a comprehensive conceptualization of the older adult care experience.

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Lee, Soohyoung r. "CORESIDENCE OF OLDER PARENTS AND ADULT CHILDREN BENEFITS OLDER ADULTS’ PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING: PATH ANALYSIS." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (November 2019): S324. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.1181.

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Abstract Even though the coresidence of older parents and their adult children is no longer a rare phenomenon in current society, a little is known about the benefit of living with adult children from older adults’ perspectives compared to the risk of this living situation. Previous research suggests that older adults’ psychological well-being is low when they live with their adult children, and this become more salient among single parents, such as widowed or divorced. The current paper utilizes the National Health Measurement Study with a sample of age 55 and over, and their SF-36 Mental Health Component score, and psychological well-being self-acceptance score was measured. Path analysis reveals while mental health and psychological well-being scores are lower among single older adults at the time of the survey (e.g., divorced, widowed) than non-single, coresidence of older adults and adult children completely mediates the negative relationship between being single and both mental health psychological well-being. A complete mediation effect of living with an adult child on older adults’ mental health and psychological well-being is consistent with both white and non-white minority older adults. This suggests that living with adult child benefits older adults’ mental health and psychological well-being. The current study seeks to stimulate ideas that might generate the next answer to community-based care in our current aging society.

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Kain, Charlotte D., Nancy Reilly, and Elaine D. Schultz. "The Older Adult." Nursing Clinics of North America 25, no. 4 (December 1990): 833–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0029-6465(22)02982-6.

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Ray, Robert, and Geraldine Heppe. "Older Adult Happiness:." Physical & Occupational Therapy In Geriatrics 4, no. 4 (September 30, 1986): 31–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j148v04n04_04.

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Ray, Robert O., and Geraldine Heppe. "Older Adult Happiness:." Physical & Occupational Therapy In Geriatrics 4, no. 4 (January 1986): 31–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/j148v04n04_04.

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Moffatt, Karyn. "Older-adult HCI." Interactions 20, no. 4 (July 2013): 72–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2486227.2486242.

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Jones, Andrea L., and Diane K. Pastor. "Older Adult Suicides." Home Healthcare Now 38, no. 3 (2020): 124–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/nhh.0000000000000855.

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Smith, Brian T., and Kelly Charlton. "When Grandparents Move In." Social Psychology 51, no. 5 (September 2020): 299–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000415.

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Abstract. This paper explores the impact of growing up with an older adult in the home on one’s attitudes toward older adults. We surveyed 309 participants for their opinions on older adults, whether they grew up living with an older adult, and whether the older adult they lived with was ill. Those who grew up with an older adult had significantly lower opinions of the elderly but had less anxiety around their own aging process. This negative impact of contact seemed especially pronounced if the older adult was ill. Results indicate that although contact in and of itself can have a positive benefit on opinions toward the elderly, the nature of the relationship impacts the effectiveness of the contact.

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Kneale, Laura, and George Demiris. "Lack of Diversity in Personal Health Record Evaluations with Older Adult Participants: A Systematic Review of Literature." Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics 23, no. 4 (January 15, 2017): 789. http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/jhi.v23i4.881.

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Background: Older adults are not adopting personal health records (PHRs) at the same rates as other adult populations. Disparities in adoption rates are also reported in older adult subgroups. The variability in adoption may be because PHRs are not designed to meet older adult users.Objective: We analyzed PHR evaluation studies to examine the characteristics and perspectives of older adult study participants to identify their self-reported needs.Method: We searched Medline, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and Embase for PHR evaluation studies that involved older adult participants.Results: 1017 abstracts were identified, and 179 publications went through full text review. 10 publications met inclusion criteria. These publications described studies conducted in 3 countries, and evaluated 7 PHRs. Homogeneity was found in the study populations and participant opinions of the systems.Discussion: Many PHR evaluations do not include diverse older adult participants. This may lead to consistency in outcomes, but it also may create gaps in identifying user needs. Additional studies, specifically targeting diverse older adult participants, are needed to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the opinions of older adults on PHRs and how these systems could benefit older adult healthcare consumers.Conclusion: The body of research shows that older adults are highly satisfied using PHRs. These outcomes may be generalizable because most PHR evaluation studies do not include diverse older adult participants. This lack of participant diversity may be contributing to the disparities observed in PHR adoption rates.

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Brodie, Charlotte. "Trainee clinical psychologists’ attitude towards adults over the age of 65 and their interest to work with older adults – pre-teaching, post-teaching and post-placement." FPOP Bulletin: Psychology of Older People 1, no. 87 (August 2004): 20–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpsfpop.2004.1.87.20.

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AbstractCare of the elderly will represent a significant proportion of the future practices of current trainee clinical psychologists and yet a reluctance to work with older people has been reported within the profession. Previous research has found that the two most powerful predictors of motivation to work with older adults were attitude toward psychotherapy for older adults and past professional experience in the field (Shmotkin, Nitza & Lomranz, 1992). Clinical psychology trainees’ attitudes towards older adults and intention to work in the area were measured prior to and after their main teaching block on older adults and then six months later, either after an older adult placement or non-older adult placement. For those trainees who had at least a ‘neutral’ experience on an older adult placement, attitudes were significantly more positive post-placement compared to baseline and to the end of the teaching block. In addition, these trainees were more interested, or possibly interested, in working with older adults at the end of placement than at baseline. The stability of attitudes in the non-older adult placement group supported the hypothesis that favourable experience on an older adult placement is important in positively influencing trainees’ attitudes towards this age group. The findings of this study were discussed in relation to previous research.

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Caskie, Grace, Abigail R. Voelkner, and Hannah M. Bashian. "COGNITIVE HEALTH STATUS AND GENDER DIFFERENCES IN ATTITUDES AND EMOTIONS TOWARD OLDER ADULTS." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (November 2019): S456. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.1708.

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Abstract The health and gender of older adults can elicit differing attitudes and emotions within young and middle-aged adults (Bergman & Bodner, 2015); one’s own gender may also influence these differences (Bergman & Cohen-Fridel, 2012). In this study, 287 participants (173 males, 114 females), aged 19-55 years (M=32.8), were randomly assigned to read one description of an older adult that varied cognitive health status (healthy/Alzheimer’s) and gender (male/female). Factorial MANOVAs examined differences by gender, health, and participant gender for participants’ (a) emotions about the older adult (compassion and emotional distance) and (b) negative perceptions about aging (ageist attitudes and aging anxiety). The first MANOVA found a significant main effect for health status; participants expressed more compassion (p=.013) and less emotional distance (p<.001) for the older adult with Alzheimer’s than for the healthy older adult. Also, the Target Gender X Participant Gender interaction was significant for emotional distance (p=.032), but not for compassion (p=.616); men reported more emotional distance than women for the female older adult, regardless of target health status, but men and women’s emotional distance were very similar for the male older adult. The second MANOVA showed only a significant health status main effect; ageist attitudes (p=.021), but not aging anxiety (p=.062), differed by health status of the older adult, with more ageist attitudes expressed for the healthy older adult than the older adult with Alzheimer’s. Overall, these results show that individual factors can influence young and middle-aged adults’ negative attitudes and emotions towards older adults. Implications will be discussed.

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Ayalon, Liat. "Transition and Adaptation to the Continuing Care Retirement Community From a Life Course Perspective: Something Old, Something New, and Something Borrowed." Journal of Applied Gerontology 37, no. 3 (March 16, 2016): 267–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0733464816637851.

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The study examined the accounts of older adults and their adult children concerning the transition to the continuing care retirement community (CCRC) and the adjustment to it, using a life course perspective. Up to three waves of interviews, consisting of a total of 187 interviews with older adults and their adult children, were conducted between 6 months and 6 years from the transition to the CCRC. Thematic analysis was employed using comparisons across groups of interviewees (older adults and adult children) and waves of interviews (up to three waves) to identify core categories of meaning. Time perception was an organizing principle across interviews. Both older adults and their adult children perceived themselves as moving forward and backward in time following the transition to the CCRC and future expectations for deterioration. The study emphasizes the linked-lives of older adults and their adult children.

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Lin, I.-Fen, Emily Wiemers, Janecca Chin, and Anna Wiersma Strauss. "TIME HELP FROM ADULT CHILDREN DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: VARIATION BY PARENTS’ COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING." Innovation in Aging 7, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2023): 106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igad104.0345.

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Abstract Many older adults in the U.S. do not live with adult children but have at least one adult child living nearby. Help from adult children is vital for supporting the health and well-being of older adults. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the need to maintain physical distancing and the fear of infection may cause disruptions in older adults’ activities of daily living but the extent to which nonresident adult children provide help with household tasks is largely unknown. This paper uses data from the 2018 and 2020 Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to assess whether adult children responded to their parents’ pandemic-specific needs by helping them with shopping for groceries, errands, rides, or chores (i.e., time help). Preliminary analysis shows that parents who had trouble buying food (even with the money) were more likely to receive time help from their nonresident adult children. Not only was time help much more common among older adults with children living nearby than older adults without any child living nearby but adult children living nearby also were more responsive to parents’ pandemic-specific needs than children who lived farther away. Additional analysis indicates an overall increase in time help from adult children in response to functional limitations between 2018 and 2020, suggesting that the pandemic may have increased family care more broadly. Because older adults with cognitive limitations may be particularly vulnerable during the pandemic, we will further examine whether pandemic-specific needs and time help from nonresident adult children differed depending on older adults’ cognitive functioning.

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Jiang, Nan, Bei Wu, and Wei Zhang. "Oral Health, Immigrant Status, and Adult Children’s Support Among Chinese American Older Adults." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2020): 800. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2902.

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Abstract Adult children play an important role in older immigrants’ health outcomes. Research has indicated that older adults may benefit from adult children caregivers’ support for oral health. However, little is known about children’s support for improving oral health for older immigrants. Using the 2018 survey of 430 Chinese older adults age 55 and older in Honolulu, Hawai’i, we examine the associations among immigrant status, adult children’s support and perceived oral health for Chinese American older adults. Emotional support from adult children protects the self-rated oral health for the immigrant group, while financial support is linked to fewer oral health problems among the US-born group. Therefore, the current study underlines the importance of investigating different pathways among foreign-born and native-born Chinese older adults with regard to children’s support on their oral health outcomes. Part of a symposium sponsored by the Oral Health Interest Group.

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Humboldt, Sofia von, and Isabel Leal. "INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS AMONG OLDER ADULTS AND ADULT CHILDREN: AMBIVALENT FEELINGS." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (November 2019): S179. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.638.

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Abstract Objectives: The relationship of older adults with their adult children involves great emotional complexity and the quality of these relationships is associated with older adults’ well-being. This qualitative study aims to examine how older adults conceptualize intergenerational relationships with adult children. Methods: The present study on qualitative data collected from in-depth interviews was conducted with English and Portuguese older adults living in the community, designed to address their perspectives on intergenerational relations with adult children. 316 older adults participated in our study. The mean age of this group was 71.2 years. 65.3% were women, and a majority (54.7%) had a partner. Results: Content analysis generated four themes: affection and integration; satisfaction in the relationship; privacy and boundaries; financial support. Conclusions: Intergenerational relationships are experienced by older adults with ambivalence and and stress the contradictory expectations of older adults with grandchildren.

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Harwood, Jake, and Angie Williams. "Expectations for Communication with Positive and Negative Subtypes of Older Adults." International Journal of Aging and Human Development 47, no. 1 (January 1, 1998): 11–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/gw3c-5cnm-8dpd-n81e.

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The study uses a recently-developed scale for eliciting perceptions, expectations, and evaluations of intergenerational communication. As predicted, it is found that younger adults expect to experience more anxiety, receive more complaining, and receive lower levels of attunement from an older adult who is portrayed as “despondent” than one who is portrayed as a “perfect grandparent.” In addition, younger adults with more negative attitudes toward older adults expect to experience more negative affect, anxiety, and communication apprehension, to feel more compassion for the older adult, and to receive lower levels of attunement and more complaining from the older adult than those with more positive attitudes. Surprisingly, younger adults with higher levels of young age identification expect to experience lower levels of apprehension, more attunement from the older adult, and to feel more compassion for the older adult than those with lower levels of age identity. These findings are discussed in terms of theoretical models of intergenerational communication, in particular the communication predicament model. In addition, younger people's feelings of having “helped” an older person are discussed in the context of intergroup theory.

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Lee, Soohyoung Rain, and Laurie S. Kim. "Coresidence of Older Parents and Adult Children Increases Older Adults’ Self-Reported Psychological Well-Being." International Journal of Alzheimer's Disease 2022 (January 27, 2022): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/5406196.

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A multigenerational household is no longer a rare phenomenon in contemporary society. However, relevant literature has focused on elderly parents receiving support from their adult child, thereby coresiding. This is potentially problematic, as both generations could benefit from living together, and little is known about the benefit of living with adult children from older adults’ perspectives compared to the risk of this living situation. Previous research suggests a significant negative effect of living alone, e.g., low psychological well-being, and it becomes more salient among single parents, such as widowed or divorced. The current paper utilizes the National Health Measurement Study with a sample of age 55 and over. Their SF-36 Mental Health and Physical Health Component and self-acceptance scores were measured. Path analysis reveals that both physical and mental health and self-acceptance scores are lower among single older adults at the time of the survey (e.g., divorced and widowed) than among those who are nonsingle and living with their adult child. A complete mediation effect of living with an adult child on older adults’ mental health and self-acceptance was observed in both White and non-White minority older adults. This suggests that living with an adult child possibly serves as a protective factor for the negative relationship between living alone and their well-being. The current study seeks to stimulate ideas that might generate the following answer to community-based care in our contemporary aging society.

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von Humboldt, Sofia, Andrea Costa, Sara Silva, and Isabel Leal. "Ambivalence Among Intergenerational Relationships In Old Age." Innovation in Aging 5, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2021): 787. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.2904.

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Abstract Objective: This study aims to analyze the perspectives of intergenerational relationships between older adults and adult children. For this purpose, a qualitative research was carried out, which analyzes these relations at a cross-national level. Methods: Four hundred and twenty four older participants aged 65-97 years, were interviewed. Participants were of three different nationalities and lived in the community. All the interviews went through the process of verbatim transcription and subsequent content analysis. Results: Two dimensions of generational ambivalence were revealed from the study; support and the conflict dimensions. Findings of content analysis produced six themes, which represent intergenerational relations between older adults and adult children: older adults-adult children interaction quality; family integration; care and support; definition of limits; distance and alienation; and communication difficulties. Conclusions: This study highlighted the diversity of experiences in old age, in relation to intergenerational relationships and underlined the conflicting expectations from older adults in relation to their adult children. Keywords: Adult children, ambivalence; conflict; intergenerational relationships; older adults; support.

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Ayalon, Liat. "Perceptions of old age and aging in the continuing care retirement community." International Psychogeriatrics 27, no. 4 (November 13, 2014): 611–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1041610214002415.

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ABSTRACTBackground:The continuing care retirement community (CCRC) is a long term care alternative available to older adults who are independent upon entrance. The present study evaluated perceptions of old age and aging among new CCRC residents and their adult children.Methods:A qualitative study with 34 dyads of older adults and their adult children (34 adult children and 36 older adults) was conducted. Interviews were analyzed using constant comparisons within and across interviews. Dyadic analysis of older adults-adult children interviews was followed.Results:Three major themes concerning the perception of old age and aging emerged: (a) expectations for multiple losses that occur in old age; (b) different views and definitions of old age as being composed of various dimensions including chronological age, mental age, physical age and appearance and (c) diverse perceptions of the CCRC as a luxurious hotel vs. the “last stop.”Conclusions:A more balanced portrayal of old age and the CCRC might result in an easier acceptance of these concepts among older adults and their adult children.

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Mbao, Mbita, Caroline Collins-Pisano, and Karen Fortuna. "Older Adult Peer Support Specialists’ Age-Related Contributions to an Integrated Medical and Psychiatric Self-Management Intervention: Qualitative Study of Text Message Exchanges." JMIR Formative Research 5, no. 3 (March 2, 2021): e22950. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/22950.

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Background Middle-aged and older adults with mental health conditions have a high likelihood of experiencing comorbid physical health conditions, premature nursing home admissions, and early death compared with the general population of adults aged 50 years or above. An emerging workforce of peer support specialists aged 50 years or above or “older adult peer support specialists” is increasingly using technology to deliver peer support services to address both the mental health and physical health needs of middle-aged and older adults with a diagnosis of a serious mental illness. Objective This exploratory qualitative study examined older adult peer support specialists’ text message exchanges with middle-aged and older adults with a diagnosis of a serious mental illness and their nonmanualized age-related contributions to a standardized integrated medical and psychiatric self-management intervention. Methods Older adult peer support specialists exchanged text messages with middle-aged and older adults with a diagnosis of a serious mental illness as part of a 12-week standardized integrated medical and psychiatric self-management smartphone intervention. Text message exchanges between older adult peer support specialists (n=3) and people with serious mental illnesses (n=8) were examined (mean age 68.8 years, SD 4.9 years). A total of 356 text messages were sent between older adult peer support specialists and service users with a diagnosis of a serious mental illness. Older adult peer support specialists sent text messages to older participants’ smartphones between 8 AM and 10 PM on weekdays and weekends. Results Five themes emerged from text message exchanges related to older adult peer support specialists’ age-related contributions to integrated self-management, including (1) using technology to simultaneously manage mental health and physical health issues; (2) realizing new coping skills in late life; (3) sharing roles as parents and grandparents; (4) wisdom; and (5) sharing lived experience of difficulties with normal age-related changes (emerging). Conclusions Older adult peer support specialists’ lived experience of aging successfully with a mental health challenge may offer an age-related form of peer support that may have implications for promoting successful aging in older adults with a serious mental illness.

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Pope, Natalie, Katy (Qiuchang) Cao, and Emily Greenfield. "OLDER ADULT ENGAGEMENT IN AGE-FRIENDLY COMMUNITY WORK." Innovation in Aging 6, Supplement_1 (November 1, 2022): 419–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.1647.

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Abstract Drawing on 22 interviews with older adults across four states, this qualitative study explores how older adults perceive their age-friendly community work and the personal meaning they derive from participation. Based on iterative coding, findings indicate ways in which geographic differences in the structure and framing of local age-friendly community initiatives set the boundaries, scope, and potential customization of older adult engagement. Across geographies, motivations for starting and sustaining engagement included: perceived personal growth; social connectivity; outlets for advancing skills and passions; and satisfaction from making a difference in the lives of older adults and their broader community. These findings highlight the importance of conceptualizing older adult engagement in age-friendly community work as a dynamic process embedded within intrapersonal, interpersonal, organizational, and community contexts. Demonstrating multiple ways older adults contribute to placemaking, the findings have implications for older adult engagement at various levels and stages of age-friendly community initiatives.

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Lee, Jung-Ah, Dana Rose Garfin, Stephanie Vaughn, and Young-Shin Lee. "Factors associated with gerontological career choice: The role of curriculum type and students’ attitudes." Journal of Nursing Education and Practice 8, no. 4 (November 26, 2017): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/jnep.v8n4p1.

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Background and objective: Caring for a growing aging population presents a challenge in contemporary health care. This study aims to identify factors associated with nursing student’s career choice in older adult care and predictors of attitudes toward older adults. Such information is critical to inform effective gerontological nursing education.Methods: Undergraduate nursing students (N = 411) from three nursing schools in California participated in a cross-sectional, web-based survey.Results: In covariate-adjusted analyses, students who had prior experiences taking gerontology-related courses, working with older adults, living with older adults, being confident in providing older adults care, and having lower negative attitudes toward older adults were more likely to consider a future career in gerontological nursing. Students’ confidence in older adult care was negatively correlated with negative attitudes towards older adults.Conclusions: To increase students’ career choice in gerontology, nursing schools should provide more gerontology content in nursing curricula and explore avenues to increase student confidence in older adult care.

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Mohamed, Asmaa T., Mona A. B. Abd Elltef, and Shimaa F. Miky. "Prevention Program Regarding Falls among Older Adults at Geriatrics Homes." Evidence-Based Nursing Research 2, no. 2 (April 16, 2020): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.47104/ebnrojs3.v2i2.118.

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Context: Older adults are vulnerable to falls that result in injury and disability, making fall prevention a national priority. Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of a fall prevention program on older adults' knowledge, practices, and elder wellbeing regarding falls. Methods: A quasi-experimental (single group pre/post-test design) was utilized to achieve the aim of this study. Four geriatric homes at the North district, Cairo governorate were included in the study. The systematic random sample composed of 50 older adults were included in this study. The pre-designed interviewing questionnaire was utilized to collect data regarding socio-demographic characteristics to assess age, sex, marital status of the older adult, and to assess the presence of chronic illness, medication, frequency of falling, and hospitalization. This questionnaire also assesses the knowledge of older adults regarding meaning, causes, protective measures, complications, and a safe environment. Besides, it assesses the reported practices of older adults regarding their health maintenance measures, nutrition, physical activity, and safe home environment. Older adult wellbeing scales developed to assess older adult physical, social, and psychological wellbeing. An environmental safety checklist used to assess the safety of the geriatric home environment. Results: Revealed that more than two-thirds of older adults aged ≥ 75 years more than half of them experienced falling two times during the past two years, there was a highly statistically significant difference in older adults' total knowledge pre and post prevention program implementation P<0.001. Moreover, there was a highly statistically significant difference between total older adult reported practices pre and post prevention program implementation P<0.001. There was statistically significant improvement related to the physical, social, and psychological wellbeing of older adult pre and post-program implementation. There was a statistically significant correlation between the older adult educational level and their knowledge and practices (p<0.05). Conclusion Application of the prevention program has a positive effect on the studied older adults' knowledge, reported practices, and their wellbeing regarding fall prevention at geriatric homes. The current study recommended that prevention programs should be applied in all geriatric homes to prevent and control falls among older adults.

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Nearing, Kathryn, and Jodi Waterhouse. "OLDER ADULT RESEARCH SPECIALISTS SEEK ENCORE CAREERS PROMOTING THE INCLUSION OF OLDER ADULT PEERS IN CLINICAL TRIALS." Innovation in Aging 7, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2023): 170. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igad104.0555.

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Abstract The University of Colorado Multi-disciplinary Center on Aging trains and promotes the hiring of older adults from diverse backgrounds to pursue encore careers as Older Adult Research Specialists (OARS). Health navigation training is the foundation of these research navigators’ unique preparation for paid positions that focus on recruiting and retaining older adult peers in clinical trials. Specifically, OARS’ roles include: 1) developing effective communication and outreach strategies to engage older adult peers in research; 2) recruiting and consenting participants for clinical trials; 3) supporting retention by identifying barriers to study participation and connecting research participants with needed community-based resources/support; 4) educating research teams on key considerations for including older adults in research; and, 5) catalyzing research innovations to increase representation in, and the relevance and translational potential of, research for improved clinical and community-based practice. OARS, whose average age is 69 (range: 58-80), diversify our research workforce and enhance our capacity to include older adults -- an underrepresented population -- in clinical research. This initiative is advancing our Age-Friendly University work to promote encore careers, foster intergenerational learning, and catalyze research innovation. Ultimately, we aspire to increase the generalizability of research findings to improve healthcare and health outcomes for older adults by promoting the inclusion of older adults in our research workforce and in research studies to enhance the benefits to older adults of new drugs, devices and behavioral health interventions. During this session, we will share our training curriculum, how we created pathways to employment and our program outcomes.

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Ford, Amanda L., and Wendy J. Dahl. "Protein and the Older Adult." EDIS 2017, no. 2 (May 9, 2017): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/edis-fs290-2017.

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Protein is a nutrient that provides energy for our bodies and is involved in many vital functions, such as repair, maintenance, and immune function. This 3-page document discusses the protein requirements for older adults. Written by Amanda L. Ford and Wendy J. Dahl, and published by the Food Science and Human Nutrition Department, March 2017. FSHN17-2/FS290: Protein and the Older Adult (ufl.edu)

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Tuttle, Lauren, Qingyu Meng, Jacqueline Moya, and Douglas O. Johns. "Consideration of Age-Related Changes in Behavior Trends in Older Adults in Assessing Risks of Environmental Exposures." Journal of Aging and Health 25, no. 2 (December 6, 2012): 243–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0898264312468032.

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Objectives: To explore age-related behavior differences between older and younger adults, and to review how older adult activity patterns are considered in evaluating the potential risk of exposure to environmental pollutants. Methods: Activity pattern data and their use in risk assessments were analyzed using the U.S. EPA Exposure Factors Handbook (EFH), U.S. EPA Consolidated Human Activity Pattern Database (CHAD), and peer-reviewed literature describing human health risk assessments. Results: The characterization by age of some factors likely to impact older adults’ exposures remains limited. We demonstrate that age-related behavior trends vary between younger and older adults, and these differences are rarely explicitly considered in environmental health risk assessment for older adults. Discussion: Incorporating older adult exposure factors into risk assessments may be challenging because of data gaps and difficulty in defining and appropriately binning older adults. Additional data related to older adult exposure factors are warranted for evaluating risk among this susceptible population.

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Parrott, Rod. "Spiritual Need Two: Continued Learning for Older Adults and Older Adult Organizations." Journal of Religion, Spirituality & Aging 17, no. 3-4 (October 5, 2005): 73–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j496v17n03_07.

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Zhai, Guangju, Leigh Blizzard, Velandai Srikanth, Changhai Ding, Helen Cooley, Flavia Cicuttini, and Graeme Jones. "Correlates of knee pain in older adults: Tasmanian older adult cohort study." Arthritis & Rheumatism 55, no. 2 (2006): 264–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/art.21835.

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Crawford, Nicole, Amber Gum, and Lawrence Schonfeld. "COMMUNITY COLLABORATOR AND OLDER ADULT EXPERIENCES WITH INTERVENTIONS DELIVERED BY OLDER ADULTS." Innovation in Aging 7, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2023): 406. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igad104.1341.

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Abstract This symposium will include researchers, collaborators from healthcare and social service organizations, and older adults serving as volunteer coaches or peer educators; speakers will describe their experiences conducting two randomized controlled trials involving behavioral interventions for older adults delivered by older adults. The first trial is a NIMH-funded three-site RCT for community-dwelling older adults with symptoms of depression, in which participants receive behavioral activation delivered by a masters-level clinician or a streamlined version (“Do More, Feel Better”) delivered by an older adult volunteer. This trial involves close collaboration with senior centers and an Area Agency on Aging (AAA). The second trial is a PCORI-funded RCT to reduce health disparities for Black/African-American and Hispanic/Latino older adults after medical hospitalization, in which participants receive the evidence-based Care Transitions Intervention (CTI), CTI plus a peer educator intervention, or usual care. This trial involves close collaboration with three regional hospital systems and an AAA. First, research investigators will describe the background, rationale, and methodology of each trial. Second, two representatives from the collaborating organizations (one from each trial) will present about their experiences collaborating on these trials – benefits of collaborating, challenges and strategies for overcoming challenges, and recommendations for other researchers engaged in similar community-based research. Third, two representatives from the older adult volunteers and peer educators (one from each trial) will present about their experiences collaborating on these trials – benefits of collaborating, challenges and strategies for overcoming challenges, and recommendations for other researchers engaged in similar community-based research.

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Hong, Seo-Youn, and Jae-Hyun Kim. "The Role of Contact Care by Adult Children in Relieving Depression in Older Adult Individuals." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 13 (June 29, 2022): 7981. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19137981.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate how contact care by adult children influences the effect of caring for grandchildren on depression in older adult individuals. Studies have shown that caring for grandchildren either increases or decreases the symptoms of depression in older adult individuals, while other studies have shown no effect. The reason for these inconsistent results is that the key control variable, contact care by adult children, has been omitted from these previous studies. An analysis of panel data consisting of observations from 162 older adult respondents in the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging over the 2008–2016 period confirms that the positive effect of caring for grandchildren on depression in older adults increased as the number of adult children who visited their older adult parents after entrusting their children to them increased. As more of their adult children visited the older adult individuals, the latter were more likely to feel that caring for their grandchildren was healing rather than stressful.

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Sawyer, Jennifer, Jessica H. Helphrey, Leah N. Smith, Ben K. Mokhtari, Allie M. Sandlin, Christopher Reed, Daniel Rodriguez, and Michael D. Barnett. "WHEN GRANDPA SAYS SOMETHING RACIST: THE ROLE OF AGEISM IN YOUNG ADULT RESPONSES." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (November 2019): S82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.318.

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Abstract Previous research has found that older adults endorse higher levels of racist attitudes than younger adults. However, little extant research has explored how young adults may respond to an older adult expressing racist views. One factor that may drive young adults’ responses is ageism, particularly stereotypes that older adults cannot handle disagreement or are incapable of changing their views. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between ageism and young adults’ likely responses to an older adult relative making a racist statement. College students (N = 110; 75.8% female) completed an online survey in which they were given a scenario in which an older adult relative makes a racist statement and rated how likely they would be to respond in different ways. Factor analysis of the likely response items found four facets: confront, agree, avoid, and leave. Bivariate correlations found that ageism was associated with higher likelihood of agreeing or avoiding, and lower likelihood of confronting the older adult relative. There was no association between ageism and likelihood of leaving the situation. Young adults higher in ageism may be more likely to agree or avoid because of ageist stereotypes that older adults cannot handle disagreement or are incapable of change, and they may be more likely to agree with the racist statement because they may have higher levels of intolerance toward both older adults and other ethnic groups. Ageism may play a role in how young adults respond to older adults expressing intolerant views.

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Fortuna, Karen. "Certified Older Adult Peer Support Specialists' Use of Technology to Support Older Adults in the Community." Innovation in Aging 5, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2021): 128. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.493.

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Abstract Middle-aged and older adults with mental health conditions have a high likelihood of experiencing comorbid physical health conditions, premature nursing home admissions, and early death compared with the general population of middle-aged and older adults. An emerging workforce of certified older adult peer support specialists aged 50 years or above is one of the fastest growing mental health workforces and may be a suitable community-based workforce to simultaneously support the mental health, physical health, and aging needs of middle-aged and older adults with a serious mental illness. Older adult peer support specialists are people with a lived experience of aging into middle age and older adulthood with a mental health condition. This presentation will present three single-arm pilot studies examining how certified older adult peer support specialists’ incorporate technology, including text messaging, ecological momentary assessments, and smartphone applications into practice and clinical outcomes among older adults with serious mental illness.

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Xie, Fen, Jinxiu Li, Wenkai Song, Quanlong Liu, Siping Jiang, Zheng-ying Chen, and Qingxia Shu. "Long-term Care Facility and its Elderly Chronic Diseases in Jishou: Insights into Underdeveloped Area of China." INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing 59 (January 2022): 004695802211287. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00469580221128735.

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Insight into the current status of long-term care facilities (LTCFs) and chronic diseases in underdeveloped areas in China is scant. Using a census method to survey older adults ≥60 years old (154 older adult residents) in all LTCFs in Jishou area. The International Resident Assessment Instrument for Long-Term Care Facilities (interRAI-LTCF) was used to collect information and analyze the current status of chronic diseases among older adult residents. There were 62 187 residents ≥60 years old in Jishou area. According to the survey, there were only 154 older adult residents living in the LTCFs of Jishou, with a ratio was 0.3% of all older adult residents, which was much lower than China’s 3.0%. Of respondents (109 older adult residents), the prevalence of chronic diseases was 70.6%. The prevalence increases with age, as well as in the female is higher than in the male. The top 3 chronic diseases were hypertension (41.3%), bone and joint disease (12.8%) and cerebrovascular disease (12.8%). It was found that different age groups and genders lead to differences in the prevalence and the order of chronic diseases. The prevalence of older adults with impaired balance ability, sleep disturbance and swallowing disturbance was higher than that of normal older adults. The results of the one-way analysis of variance showed that the age and balance ability of the older adults with chronic diseases were statistically significant ( P < .05). In addition, the prevalence of chronic diseases in the LTCFs older adult was higher than the home care (HC) older adults in Jishou. The age and the prevalence of chronic diseases of LTCFs in older adults with professional nursing staff were higher than in those without. This study provides a theoretical basis for the healthcare distribution, prevention and treatment of chronic diseases in underdeveloped areas. The undeveloped area has lower LTCFs staying rate and chronic disease prevalence of older adults than relatively developed areas. More public health attention and capital investment are needed to increase the LTCFs number and strengthen disease testing and screening. As well as, the proportion of professional nursing staff and specialist doctors in LTCFs and improve the quality of care and medical treatment for older adults.

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Prouty, Joy. "The Older Adult Market." ACSM'S Health & Fitness Journal 3, no. 4 (July 1999): 36–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1249/00135124-199907000-00015.

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Hales-Mabry, Celia. "Serving the Older Adult." Reference Librarian 14, no. 31 (December 1990): 69–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j120v14n31_07.

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Reynolds, Sharon, and Adrienne D. Mims. "TEACHING THE OLDER ADULT." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 53, no. 3 (March 2005): 554–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-5415.2005.53178_11.x.

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Walsh, Kathleen C. "Teaching the Older Adult." Plastic Surgical Nursing 11, no. 4 (1991): 170–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00006527-199101140-00008.

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Hurford, David P. "OLDER ADULT VISUAL PROCESSING." Educational Gerontology 11, no. 4-5 (January 1985): 191–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0380127850110402.

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Edelstein, Barry A., Erin L. Woodhead, Daniel L. Segal, Marnin J. Heisel, Emily H. Bower, Angela J. Lowery, and Sarah A. Stoner. "Older Adult Psychological Assessment." Clinical Gerontologist 31, no. 3 (March 3, 2007): 1–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07317110802072108.

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Nevins, A. "Understanding the Older Adult." Gerontologist 28, no. 6 (December 1, 1988): 846. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geront/28.6.846.

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Gray-Vickrey, Peg. "Protecting the Older Adult." Nursing Management (Springhouse) 32, no. 10 (October 2001): 36–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00006247-200110000-00016.

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&NA;. "3. OLDER ADULT PATIENTS." Journal of Infusion Nursing 29, Supplement (January 2006): S13—S14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00129804-200601001-00008.

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Puentes, William J., Christine K. Bradway, and Melissa Aselage. "Older Adult Mental Health." Journal of Gerontological Nursing 36, no. 7 (July 1, 2010): 44–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.3928/00989134-20100528-99.

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Koepke, Donald R. "Why Older Adult Ministry?" Journal of Religion, Spirituality & Aging 17, no. 3-4 (October 5, 2005): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j496v17n03_01.

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Chen, Zhirui, and Zhen Cong. "Barriers to Disaster Preparation When Older Adults Are Taking Care of Older Adults." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2020): 437–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1414.

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Abstract This study examined the association between age and barriers for disaster preparation in the U.S., including the moderating effect of caring for an elderly person. Using a sample of 1147 individuals from the 2017 FEMA National Household Survey, we tested age as the key predictor, which had four groups: 18-44 (young age), 45-64 (middle age), 65-74 (young-old), and 75+ (old-old). Binomial logistic regression was conducted to investigate how age and the responsibility to take care of an older adult affected the likelihood of having preparation barriers, controlling for respondents’ gender, education, race, home ownership, disability, and responsibility to take care of an older adult. The results showed that compared with other age groups, young-old were significantly less likely to have barriers for disaster preparation. In addition, taking care of an older adult increased the likelihood of having preparation barriers. Interestingly, relative to the young-old, caring for an older adult presented additional challenges for other age groups to have barriers for preparation. Our findings directed attention to age patterns in barriers for disaster preparation and heterogeneity among older adults, and also highlighted that caring for older adults could exacerbate barriers for disaster preparation. The life course perspective informed the discussion of results, which emphasized on life-span development and linked lives.

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Werth, James L., Karen Kopera-Frye, Dean Blevins, and Brian Bossick. "Older Adult Representation in the Counseling Psychology Literature." Counseling Psychologist 31, no. 6 (November 2003): 789–814. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011000003258391.

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The increasing older adult population has implications for the training and practice of counseling psychologists because of the field's avowed dedication to lifespan development. The present study examined the degree to which older adults were represented in articles in the Journal of Counseling Psychology and The Counseling Psychologist from 1991 to 2000. Several issues were examined: age-based characteristics of samples reported, changes in these characteristics over time, whether articles including multiple studies involved older participants, and degree of attention to older adults in theoretical articles. Results are discussed in context of the traditional definition of counseling psychology, what counseling psychologists have to offer older adults, and the implications for the training of counseling psychologists with expertise in older adult issues.

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Wu, Haorui. "OLDER-ADULT PERSONAL SUPPORT WORKERS’ CONTRIBUTIONS DURING THE COVID-19 EMERGENCY RESPONSE." Innovation in Aging 7, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2023): 570. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igad104.1867.

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Abstract When COVID-19 devastated long-term care facilities across Canada, most public attention was turned to older adult residents/clients, rather than their service providers, especially the personal support workers (PSWs). Some PSWs are over 55 age and above; they featured dual roles in the COVID-19 settings: (1) they were a vulnerable group disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 and (2) they were essential workers providing support in the older-adult care facilities. Since current older-adult-driven research, practice, and policy have primarily focused on generalized assumptions of older adults as a vulnerable, passive, and dependent group rather than recognizing their diversity, expertise, assets, and experiences, this project aims to identify these older-adult PSWs’ contributions. This qualitative study invited 13 PSWs from older-adult care organizations in the Greater Toronto area of Canada to participate in in-depth interviews. This study uncovered three major contributions of older-adult PSWs within the individual-work-family triangulation. At the individual level, they bear the potentially high health risks of COVID-19, while supporting people around them. At the workplace level, they took on extra responsibilities to reduce the spread of the virus, dealing with the client’s/residents’ unfavourable behaviours and stress, and supporting their co-workers to maintain their organizations’ operations. At the family level, they worked overtime to compensate for their family members’ income loss and kept their family members at home to avoid infections. These outcomes inform the older adult research, practice, and policy by enhancing the appreciation of older adults’ diverse strengths and promoting older adults’ contributions in disaster settings.

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Humboldt, S. Von, A. Costa, and S. Silva. "Ambivalence among intergenerational relationships in old age." European Psychiatry 64, S1 (April 2021): S743—S744. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2021.1970.

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IntroductionThis study focuses on ambivalence among intergenerational relationships in old age.ObjectivesThis study aims to analyze the perspectives of intergenerational relationships between older adults and adult children. For this purpose, a qualitative research was carried out, which analyzes these relations at a cross-national level.MethodsFour hundred and twenty four older participants aged 65-97 years, were interviewed. Participants were of three different nationalities and lived in the community. All the interviews went through the process of verbatim transcription and subsequent content analysis.ResultsTwo dimensions of generational ambivalence were revealed from the study; support and the conflict dimensions. Findings of content analysis produced six themes, which represent intergenerational relations between older adults and adult children: older adults-adult children interaction quality; family integration; care and support; definition of limits; distance and alienation; and communication difficulties.ConclusionsThis study highlighted the diversity of experiences in old age, in relation to intergenerational relationships and underlined the conflicting expectations from older adults in relation to their adult children.DisclosureNo significant relationships.

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Liu, Jianghong, Christopher M. Lee, Yuanyuan An, Qiuzi Sun, Hua Mei, Shupeng Shi, Masha Ivanova, and Hengyi Rao. "Application of the Older Adult Self-Report and Older Adult Behavior Checklist to Chinese Older Adults: Syndrome Structure and Inter-Informant Agreement." Journal of Gerontological Nursing 48, no. 8 (August 2022): 26–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3928/00989134-20220630-01.

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