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Hattie and Sammler: Saul Bellow's older woman and older man Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Xiaoming Cong
Hattie in Saul Bellow's “Leaving the Yellow House” and Sammler in Bellow's are both elderly characters. This article intends to compare the two characters from a gender perspective, to illustrate how these characters appear to experience and respond to old age and how other characters in these two fictions respond to the old age of their respective elderly characters. The comparison of these two characters
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“They didn't think we'd do it!”: Community gardening as an act of resistance for people with dementia Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Sarah Swift, Nicholas Jenkins, Margaret Brown, Marjorie McCrory
People living with dementia commonly report negative experiences such as disempowerment, stigma, and oppression. Community gardening has demonstrated its potential as a forum for the practice of resistance against the oppressions experienced by other marginalised groups; however, this element of the experience of community gardening has yet to be explored in the context of dementia. A collaboratively-designed
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Adapting to home care in Norway: A longitudinal case study of older Adults' experiences Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Ove Hellzén, Tove Mentsen Ness, Kari Ingstad, Mette Spliid Ludvigsen, Ann Marie Nissen, Siri Andreassen Devik
This study aimed to describe how older adults with complex health problems manage their everyday lives in their own homes and how they interact with given home care. In this multiple-case study, a total of 14 individual interviews were conducted with five older adults over the course of one year. Deductive and inductive content analyses were performed. Three descriptive categories were each identified
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Ambiguous personhood: Paradoxes of social belonging in Danish nursing home care Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Emma Jelstrup Balkin, Ingjerd Gåre Kymre, Mette Geil Kollerup, Bente Martinsen, Mette Grønkjær
In oldest old age (generally considered to be from 85 years onwards), personhood is often called into question, impacting well-being as a result. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this article examines the well-being of oldest old nursing home residents at the intersections of ageism, fraying personhood and fragile social belonging in Danish nursing home care. In Denmark personhood hinges on both independence
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Images of care: A pedagogy of rosiness about aging transitions Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Cati Coe, Sheridan Conty
How do people learn about what it is like to become frail and require assistance with activities of daily living? This significant transition in the life course is often avoided and denied by those in North America. This paper examines images from the websites of agencies providing care to older adults in their homes as one aspect of a wider social pedagogy about aging. In particular, we find that
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Care-ethical considerations of technology-care-assemblages Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Cordula Endter, Silke Migala, Anne Münch, Anna Richter
Technology plays a major role in care. Against the background of demographic ageing, the use of assistive technologies to support and relieve carers in their work is becoming more and more important. One sector that is increasingly coming into focus is home care by family caregivers. Here, the use of assistive technologies takes place under specific conditions. The article proposes a care-ethical perspective
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The timescapes of older adults living alone and receiving home care: An interview study Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Kristin S. Voie, Janine Wiles, Kjersti Sunde Mæhre, Margrethe Kristiansen, Ann Karin Helgesen, Bodil H. Blix
In this study, we drew on Barbara Adam's (1998) perspective and applied a timescape lens to our analysis of how nine older adults who live alone, receive home care and are considered by home care professionals to be frail, experience living (in) time. Over a period of eight months, we conducted three interviews with each of the nine participants. We analysed the data using reflexive thematic analysis
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Influence of materiality in professional geriatric care: Conceptual, methodological and empirical insights Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Hanna Wüller, Rosa Mazzola
Most people become more reliant on care and support as they age. The constitution of ageing people in the context of nursing support thus represents a material aspect in the daily life of these people and must be taken into account in the science of gerontology. However, theories of (geriatric) care have previously been predominantly human-centric. In light of the material turn, the goal of this paper
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‘Robbed out of mind’: Reflections on Alzheimer's and gendered subjectivity in select Indian literary narratives Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Debashrita Dey, Priyanka Tripathi
Neurological degeneration is a potent signifier molding older lives, divesting them of ‘personhood’ and making them a ‘target of care’. This article delineates the depictions of Alzheimer's and its associated losses in select Indian literary narratives- Jalsobi: In the Shadow of Light (2018) and Girl in White Cotton (2019) and seeks to understand how ‘ageing into disability’ for older women has severe
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“We're still alive, much to everyone's surprise”: The experience of trans older adults living with dementia in an ageist, cisgenderist, and cogniticist society Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Alexandre Baril, Marjorie Silverman
Trans and non-binary older adults living with dementia experience forms of marginalization, pathologization, and discrimination embedded in epistemic violence that leads them to be mistreated and dismissed as knowledgeable subjects. Based on empirical findings from a Canadian study examining the experiences of trans and non-binary people living with dementia and their carers, we combat this epistemic
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More than words: Doing the work of being open and inclusive Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2024-01-13
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Cared for masculinities in nursing homes - A material perspective on the intersectionality of institutional, spacial, gendered and corporal materiality Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Rafaela Werny
This paper takes the co-construction of age and gender over the course of a life as a starting point and expands this perspective by looking at the intersectional interplay of institutional, spatial, and bodily materiality in the setting of a nursing home. Nursing homes are often perceived as a female space, both socially and physically. Moreover, they are institutional spaces that are primarily oriented
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Age differences in emotional reactions to ageist memes and changes in age of one's Best Self Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Patricia Kahlbaugh, Jacklyn Ramos-Arvelo, Madison Brenning, Loreen Huffman
Memes on social media can carry ageist messages and can elicit reactions that are both emotional and self-evaluative. The present study investigates age-related differences in nine discrete emotions and in the evaluation of when individuals have been or will be their best selves. Participants (n = 360) representing young (m = 26 years), middle-aged (m = 39 years) and older adults (m = 63 years) were
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Counter-narratives of active aging: Disability, trauma, and joy in the age-friendly city Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2024-01-06 Karine Côté-Boucher, Tamara Daly, Sally Chivers, Susan Braedley, Sean Hillier
Dominant narratives about late life promote active aging, while anti-aging ones mobilize tropes of decline and irrelevance. In contrast, counter-narratives raise questions that spark new conversations about the promising practices that could foster more age-friendly cities. In this article, we describe our feminist and ethnographic approach to interviews and digital storytelling that aim to amplify
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Material gerontology – Central thematic intersections and blurring boundaries Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Vera Gallistl, Julia Hahmann, Grit Höppner, Anna Wanka
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Moving in together in later life: Making spaces into places as a joint endeavor Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Anna Wanka, Steven M. Schmidt, Susanne Iwarsson, Frank Oswald, Karla Wazinski, Björn Slaug, Maya Kylén
Background and objectives We focus on the linkages between relocation, new forms of partner cohabitation, and retirement. What are the patterns and trajectories of moving in with a partner in retirement? How do older adults experience different transitions, place attachment, and placemaking when they move in with a partner? Research design and methods In this qualitative study, 50 persons between 60
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Healthy aging, self-care, and choice in India: Class-based engagements with globally circulating ideologies Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-11-25 Sarah Lamb, Nilanjana Goswami
Euro-American notions of successful and healthy aging are taking root globally, shaped and inflected by local cultural and political contexts. India is one place where globally inflected discourses of healthy, active, and successful aging are on the rise. However, notions about just what constitutes healthy aging and how to achieve such a goal do not play out the same way across the globe. This article
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“Sexual activity for me is something else. It's the same as always: Sex aside and our love for each other.” Changes in sexual activity in dementia from the view of spouse-carers' Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Marcela Moreira Lima Nogueira, Jose Pedro Simões Neto, Aud Johannessen, Marcia Cristina Nascimento Dourado
The study aimed to explore the impact of Alzheimer's disease (AD) on spouse-carer's lives and the ways it affects their marital relationship and sexual activity. Data were obtained from qualitative interviews conducted with 11 spouse-carers of people with AD. Using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), three themes emerged: psychological and emotional impact, social impact, and sexual impact
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“We never lived together either”: Couples' housing (re-) arrangements in later life Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-11-04 Julia Piel, Bernt-Peter Robra
Social gerontology mainly addresses couples' housing arrangements in later life by focusing on partner's care, related adaptations in place, and changing role expectations within the couple relationship. Thereby, the resulting image does not fully represent today's diversity of couples' housing arrangements. This article considers housing arrangement and relationship orientation of older couples as
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Personal benefits of older adults engaging in a participatory action research (PAR) project Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Shkumbin Gashi, Heidi Kaspar, Martin Grosse Holtforth
Participatory action research (PAR) is the process of conducting research with people rather than for them and is perceived as an empowering activity for older adults who participate in it. However, there is little evidence that outlines and explains the reasons why older adults engage in PAR. Thus, the aim of this study was to better understand the personal benefits for older adults participating
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“What's your accent, where are you from?”: Language and belonging among older immigrants Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Stephanie Zemba, Meeta Mehrotra
Researchers have identified immigration and marginalization as two processes that impact older immigrants' experience of aging in the U.S. Our paper draws on 42 interviews with a diverse group of older American immigrants to center issues of language, accent, and Othering. We argue that the importance of language extends beyond communication for older immigrants, as English proficiency and accent are
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Life-course transitions and exclusion from social relations in the lives of older men and women Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-10-21 Anna Urbaniak, Kieran Walsh, Lucie Galčanová Batista, Marcela Petrová Kafková, Celia Sheridan, Rodrigo Serrat, Franziska Rothe
There is increasing interest across European contexts in promoting active social lives in older age, and counteracting pathways and outcomes related to social isolation and loneliness for men and women in later life. This is evidenced within national and European level policy, including the 2021 Green Paper on Ageing and its concern with understanding how risks can accrue for European ageing populations
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Inessential objects: Cherished possessions in late life in Indian fiction Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Ira Raja
Through close readings of three Indian short stories, this essay seeks to show how cherished possessions, such as a bed, a blanket and books, are not stable repositories of past memories but a means of materializing intergenerational relations within the family in the lived present and, perhaps even more interestingly, catalysts for new and hitherto unforeseen possibilities of self-discovery and connections
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A phenomenological, intersectional understanding of coping with ageism and racism among older adults Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Andrew T. Steward, Yating Zhu, Carson M. De Fries, Annie Zean Dunbar, Miguel Trujillo, Leslie Hasche
The aim of this qualitative, phenomenological study was to understand how older adults cope with experiences of ageism and racism through an intersectional lens. Twenty adults 60+ residing in the U.S. Mountain West who identified as Black, Hispanic/Latino(a), Asian-American/Pacific Islander, Indigenous, or White participated individually in a one-hour, semi-structured interview. A team of five coders
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“Stop acting like a child – you're immature”: The reversed ageism of practicing self-injury as adult women and the reclaiming of our bodies Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Nina Veetnisha Gunnarsson
The practice of self-injury is considered deviant and pathological, and the stereotype of a self-injuring individual is a young, white, middle-class woman. By using an autoethnographic approach, I elucidate how four women and I, aged 35–51, with experiences of self-injury in adulthood, use, internalize, and speak through dominant discourses of self-injury. The practice of self-injury is an embodied
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Distributed age(ing): Features of a material gerontology Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Grit Höppner
In this paper, I develop features of a material gerontology which are summarised in the concept of “distributed age(ing);” that is, age(ing) that is distributed across and co-constituted through meanings, roles, and identities, as well as human and non-human forms of materiality, their productive dimensions and their relations to each other. The starting point is the critique of the human-centredness
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Dementia as a material for co-creative art making: Towards feminist posthumanist caring Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Dragana Lukić
This article generates new understandings of dementia through feminist posthumanist and performative engagements with co-creative artmaking practices during a six-month study in a residential care home in Norway. Dementia emerges within multisensorial entanglements of more-than-human materials in three different artmaking sessions, which first materialized in the form of collective photographs and
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Social egg freezing as ambivalent materialities of aging Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Tannistha Samanta
This commentary explores how the material-nonmaterial transactions around reproduction among women raise paradoxical questions of reproductive autonomy and commercialization of reproduction. Drawing from medical anthropological studies on human reproduction, the technology around social egg freezing has been conceived to proffer ambivalent possibilities of hope, despair, and repair as mature women
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Spacetimematter of aging – The material temporalities of later life Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Vera Gallistl, Anna Wanka
Material gerontology poses the question of how aging processes are co-constituted in relation to different forms of (human and non-human) materiality. This paper makes a novel contribution by asking when aging processes are co-constituted and how these temporalities of aging are entangled with different forms of materiality. In this paper, we explore the entanglements of temporality and materiality
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The domestication of remote monitoring: The materialisation of care? Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Kate Gibson, Katie Brittain
Recent years have seen an influx of technologies aimed at enabling older people to remain at home. Remote monitoring is one such technology. By tracking the body as it moves through time and space, remote monitoring enables a care connection which transcends the physical boundaries of the home. Based on 43 interviews conducted with 21 older people trialling remote monitoring, this study critically
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“Keeping our distance”: Older adults' experiences during year one of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown in Australia Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Andrew S. Gilbert, Stephanie M. Garratt, Bianca Brijnath, Joan Ostaszkiewicz, Frances Batchelor, Christa Dang, Briony Dow, Anita M.Y. Goh
The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic had a profound impact on everyday life in Australia despite relatively low infection rates. Lockdown restrictions were among the harshest in the world, while older adults were portrayed as especially vulnerable by politicians and the media. This study examines the perceptions and experiences of the pandemic and lockdowns among 31 older Australians. We investigated
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No place to go? Older people reconsidering the meaning of social spaces in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Katariina Tuominen, Jari Pirhonen, Kirsi Lumme-Sandt, Päivi Ahosola, Ilkka Pietilä
Under COVID-19 restrictions, older people were advised to avoid social contact and to self-isolate at home. The situation forced them to reconsider their everyday social spaces such as home and leisure time places. This study approached the meaning of social spaces for older people by examining how older people positioned themselves in relation to social spaces during the pandemic. The data were drawn
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Ageing without senescence: A critical absence in social gerontology? Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Chris Gilleard, Paul Higgs
This paper addresses the absence of the term ‘senescence’ in recent social science literature on ageing. The significance of this omission is considered in light of the emerging standpoint of gero-science, which argues that the central processes defining ageing are concerned with the rising probability of functional decline, development of degenerative disease and death. From this perspective, the
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The second empty nest: The lived experience of older women whose intensive ‘grandmotherhood’ has ended Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Yarin Cohen, Gabriela Spector-Mersel, Sharon Shiovitz-Ezra
Grandmothers are the major nonparental unpaid source of childcare in Western societies. Intensive caring for grandchildren may pose challenges to some grandmothers, but also offers an opportunity to refill the ‘empty nest’ often experienced in mid-life. When grandmothers' intensive involvement in their grandchildren's care decreases significantly or ceases altogether, they may experience a recurrence
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The philosophy of collective memory in the novel “The Buried Giant” by Kazuo Ishiguro Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Liyun Bai
Memory is one of major themes running through Kazuo Ishiguro's works. One of such works is The Buried Giant. This study aims to analyze the concept of collective memory in Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Buried Giant through hermeneutic interpretation and sociological analysis. The results show that this novel links collective memory with individual experience and generational identity, whilst making aging
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Staying connected: Alzheimer's hashtags and opportunities for engagement and overcoming stigma Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Kelly E. Tenzek, Emily Lapan, Yotam Ophir, Tahleen A. Lattimer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a terminal, neurodegenerative disease, and consequently is difficult to communicate about as it is stigmatized, and discussions are rife with misconceptions. By situating AD conversations in the sociocultural space of the opportunity model of presence during the end-of-life process, a framework developed illustrating the potential trajectory from living with illness through
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From ethical approval to an ethics of care: Considerations for the inclusion of older adults in ethnographic research from the perspective of a ‘humanisation of care framework’ Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-07-30 Jayme Tauzer, Fiona Cowdell, Kristina Nässén
A deeper understanding of care demands the methodological finesse of qualitative research: we must observe, listen, and witness to expose what matters to care recipients. In this paper, we – a team of three: one early-career researcher and two supervisors – reflect on our experiences of designing and then seeking ethics approval for ethnographic research on care for older adults, many of whom demonstrate
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Exclusion within exclusion: The experiences of internally displaced older adults in Lugbe camp, Abuja Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-07-29 Prince Chiagozie Ekoh, Chukwuemeka Ejimkaraonye, Patricia Uju Agbawodikeizu, Ngozi E. Chukwu, Tochukwu Jonathan Okolie, Emmanuel Onyemechi Ugwu, Chisom Gladys Otti, Perpetua Lum Tanyi
As the Boko Haram insurgency-induced conflict in Northeast Nigeria lingers and more people are made homeless, Displaced older persons who have lost their social networks, support systems, status, and roles as a result may experience new challenges at the internally displaced persons (IDPs) camps. Our study explored older adults' experiences of exclusion in the Lugbe IDP camp in Abuja. Data was collected
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Intersectional epistemic tensions associated with building knowledge with LGBTQ+ older adults of color Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-07-29 Austin G. Oswald, Lujira Cooper, Aundaray Guess
In gerontological research, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning (LGBTQ+) older adults of color are a hard-to-reach and underrepresented population. In this paper, we reflected upon the process of designing and implementing a Participatory Action Research (PAR) study by and for LGBTQ+ older adults of color committed to intersectionality. Data generted from fieldnotes and focus
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Perspectives on creative well-being of older adults Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-07-19
The growing aging population has become a significant global issue in recent years, increasing the need for research that examines aging-related phenomena such as personal growth and development in later life. A major challenge in achieving this aim is the prevailing deficit perspective on aging, which is so pervasive that it often overshadows older adults' contributions to society and diminishes the
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Representations of older people in Turkish prime-time TV series and Netflix original Turkish series: A comparative content analysis Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-07-13
In this study, older characters that appeared in all the episodes of the first seasons of eight most popular Turkish TV series on prime-time televisions in Turkey and those appeared in all the episodes of the first seasons of eight "original" Turkish series on Netflix were submitted to a comparative quantitative and qualitative content analysis. In this sense, the aim of this study was to reveal what
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Who believes in cross-age friendship? Predictors of the belief in intergenerational friendship scale in young adults Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-07-08 Varshaa Kashyap, Zoë Francis
Intergenerational contact is beneficial for both younger and older adults, but friendships that span across generations are uncommon. While this is partially due to situational factors, people's beliefs about the possibility of intergenerational friendship may also affect how they approach potential intergenerational interactions. In a sample of 209 students from a Canadian university, we validate
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In search of epistemic justice. Dialogical reflection of researchers on situated ethics in studies with people living with language and/or cognitive impairment Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Barbara Groot, Annette Hendrikx, Elena Bendien, Susan Woelders, Lieke de Kock, Tineke Abma
Background Academics aim to understand the experiences of people living with cognitive and/or language impairment in their search for epistemic justice. Methods that do not rely solely on verbal information (e.g., interviews, focus groups) but also employ an attunement to the non-verbal - such as participant observation and creative methods, are seen as a suitable way to do justice to people's non-verbal
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The shadow of dementia: Listening to undecidability in ethnographic interviews with persons suspecting possible dementia Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Shvat Eilat
Even before a diagnosis of dementia, people may negotiate in their everyday lives the fears and suspicions about the possibility of a future with dementia. My field of research involves JewishIsraeli older adult individuals who suspect that they are beginning to lose their memory, but before seeking out a formal diagnosis—and when not seeking a diagnosis at all is an equal possibility. By distinguishing
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Cognitivism ageing: The Alzheimer conundrum as switched ontology & the potential for a new materialist dementia Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 James Rupert Fletcher
Following recent regulatory approvals for anti-Alzheimer's monoclonal antibodies, this paper considers the contemporary role of cognitivism in defining the ontological commitments of dementia research, as well as movements away from cognitivism under the umbrella of 4E cognitive science. 4E cognitive theories, extending cognition into bodies, their environs, and active relations between the two, share
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Of duty and diaspora: (Re)negotiating the intergenerational contract in South Asian Muslim families Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Mushira Mohsin Khan
In recent years, there has been exponential growth in the South Asian Muslim population in the United States. This demographic trend, along with a rapidly aging North American population, implies that very soon, a significant proportion of U.S. adults 65 years and older will identify as South Asian Muslim. Moreover, more than one-half of Muslims (57%) live in a multi-person/multi-generation household
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The beautification of men within skincare advertisements: A multimodal critical discourse analysis Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Lame Maatla Kenalemang-Palm
This study draws on the theory of Social Semiotics and the methodology of Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA) to examine the textual and visual design of skincare advertisements targeted towards men. The current proliferation of the market for male-oriented facial products represents an important shift towards the increased attention to the beautification of male bodies in Western societies
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Corrigendum to “Contradictions of hegemonic masculinity and the (hopeful) potential of old age and caring masculinity in Estonian society and in films A Friend of Mine (2011) and Tangerines (2013)” [Journal of Aging Studies volume 63 (2022) 1–7/101034] Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Teet Teinemaa, Marge Unt
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Community arts engagement supports perceptions of personal growth in older adults Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Niyati Dhokai, Holly Matto, Emily S. Ihara, Catherine J. Tompkins, Shane V. Caswell, Nelson Cortes, Rick Davis, Sarah M. Coogan, Victoria N. Fauntroy, Elizabeth Glass, Judy (Moon) Lee, Gwen Baraniecki-Zwil, Jatin P. Ambegaonkar
Purpose The effects of arts engagement on older adults have been well-documented. However, the ways older adults overcome common situational and dispositional barriers to enhance personal growth and well-being are less known. Methods Fifty-six community dwelling older adults (71.3 ± 4.6 years) took part in dance, music, or a control workshop two times/week for ten weeks. Participants' personal growth
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The qualitative embedded case study method: Exploring and refining gerontological concepts via qualitative research with older people Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Amanda Grenier
This article argues that a tailored version of the qualitative embedded case study method can be used to build strong conceptual and inclusive insights from qualitative research with older people, and, in doing so, advance theoretical scholarship in social and critical gerontology. Gerontology has often been described as “data-rich and theory-poor” (Birren & Bengtson, 1988). It is a field which draws
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Applying person-centered research ethics in the design of dementia-specific measures Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-05-20 Sheila L. Molony, Sam Fazio, Ricci Sanchez, Joe Montminy, Maureen Rulison, Rev. Dennis McGuire, Richard Feinn, Sangchoon Jeon, Rachel Montesano, Lorna Prophater, Kimberly VanHaitsma, Sheryl Zimmerman
There is an emerging call for new strengths-based measures to guide research, care, and support for persons living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Person-centered interventions have demonstrated a positive impact in global quality of life, but many promising approaches lack strengths-based measures with sufficient sensitivity to document relevant outcomes. Human centered design is an
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Social exclusion and critical transitions in later life: Trajectories, forms and mechanisms Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Kieran Walsh, Anna Urbaniak
Unequal ageing patterns are increasingly prevalent within the life courses of heterogeneous older populations. Critical transitions in later life may contribute to these patterns and to more multifaceted deep-rooted forms of social exclusion. Yet despite significant research in this area, knowledge gaps remain regarding the subjective experiences of these transitions, the trajectories and constituent
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The ethnographer, the research participants, and the meaningful others: Gray zones of relationality and the ethics of dementia care research Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Barbara Pieta, Francesco Diodati
The debate on the ethics of dementia research has tended to treat individuals with dementia, primary caregivers other family members and local communities as preestablished and distinct categories of research participants. What has been overlooked are the meaningful social relationships that run through these categories and how these relationships affect the ethnographer's positionality during and
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Expanding the ethnographic toolkit: Using medical documents to include kinless older adults living with dementia in qualitative research Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Lily N. Shapiro, Marlaine Figueroa Gray, Callie Freitag, Priyanka Taneja, Hitomi Kariya, Paul K. Crane, Ann M. O'Hare, Elizabeth K. Vig, Janelle S. Taylor
Ethnographic research with cognitively impaired older adults can be challenging, in part because cognitive impairment raises questions about the ability to provide informed consent. Relying on proxy consent is a commonly used strategy, but often excludes people with dementia who lack close kin (de Medeiros, Girling, & Berlinger, 2022). In this paper, we describe how we have analyzed existing research
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Turning age into agency: A qualitative longitudinal investigation into older jobseekers' agentic responses to ageism Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-05-06 Katri Keskinen, Kirsi Lumme-Sandt, Pirjo Nikander
Despite existing laws prohibiting age discrimination in employment and hiring practices, ageism creates inequalities between jobseekers because of their age. Deeply manifested ageist practices take place in everyday interactions within the labor market, complicating changes in career trajectories during late working life. Bringing the time dimension into studies on ageism and individual agency, we
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Making a “home” into a home: How design of aged-care homes impacts residents Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-04-23 Alethea Blackler, Claire Craig, Claire Brophy, Fatima Kamali
The move into residential aged care is a difficult transition for many people. The place may be called an aged-care or nursing “home”, but for many residents it does not feel like a home at all. This paper explores issues experienced by older people who are trying to make themselves at home in aged care. The authors present two studies examining residents' perceptions of the aged-care environment.
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“Courage to cobble something new”: Women's queer and creative narratives of bisexuality and ageing Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Rebecca L. Jones, Sarah Jen, Bea Reiter
Critical gerontologists have called for more diverse and inclusive visions of a good old age, and especially for imaginings that do not depend on health, wealth and heterosexuality. They have suggested that LGBTQ people, alongside other marginalized groups, may have particular contributions to make to the project of reimagining ageing. In this paper, we bring together this work with Jose Muñoz's concept
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Health care professionals' experiences of possibilities and constraints in caring for older adults living with long-term pain in community home care Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Kristina Nässén, Catharina Gillsjö, Mia Berglund
Caring for a growing population of older adults with complex health problems in their homes is part of every-day work for many health care professionals in the world. This qualitative interview study explores the way health care professionals perceive possibilities and constraints when caring for older adults living with long-term pain in community home care in Sweden. The study aims to understand
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Vulnerability in context; hard numbers, tricky words and grey areas for gerontology Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Linda Naughton, Miguel Padeiro, Beatriz Bueno-Larraz
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Portuguese government identified those aged 70 or more as a risk group, placing a special duty of protection on them to shelter-at-home. This paper asks how Portuguese municipalities, using Facebook posts, communicated the risk to older adults and to what extent ageist stereotypes were found in the language and frames employed. Over 3800 Facebook posts made
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“Seeing the day-to-day situation”: A grounded theory of how persons living with dementia and their family caregivers experience the hospital to home transition and beyond Journal of Aging Studies (IF 2.707) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Marianne Saragosa, Kerry Kuluski, Karen Okrainec, Lianne Jeffs
Most older adults with dementia live at home, they primarily receive care provided by family members and friends. Given the decline in memory and other cognitive functions, there to be higher rates of touch points with the health system for those living with dementia. Evidence has shown that these care transitions mark critical changes in the lives of older people, including significant and far-reaching