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Older Chinese' attitudes toward aging and the relationship to mental health: an international comparison
- Author:
- LAI Daniel W. L.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Health Care, 48(3), April 2009, pp.243-259.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This study examined the predictive effects of attitude toward ageing on mental health of ageing Chinese. Data were obtained from community surveys utilising mixed sampling methods of 4,240 elderly Chinese 55 years or older in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Canada, and the United States. Hierarchical multiple regression analysis was used, with sociodemographic variables entered first, followed by the health variables, and then attitude toward ageing. The effect of attitude toward ageing on mental health was stronger than most other predictive factors. Social workers should focus on creating social/community environments that build a positive attitude towards ageing.
Care workers in long-term care for older people: challenges of quantity and quality
- Author:
- CHEN Lisa Henglien
- Journal article citation:
- European Journal of Social Work, 17(3), 2014, pp.383-401.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article, drawing on a qualitative study in England, the Netherlands and Taiwan, explores how countries with very different care systems address the challenge of securing sufficient numbers of care workers with appropriate skills in ageing care. The analysis exposes the salient features of care systems, ageing-care markets and the ageing-care workforce in the three countries. To support the analysis, examples of how the countries attempt to recruit and retain ageing-care workers are provided. Key findings are that to secure an adequate number of skilled ageing-care workers, job satisfaction, coherence between care and labour policies and equal working conditions across sectors are vital. A quality ageing-care worker requires regular professional supervision and support, resources for ongoing training and career development opportunities. Most importantly, securing a sufficient number of ageing-care workers and ensuring they have appropriate skills are not isolated challenges but are interlinked and require collaboration between a range of care actors. (Publisher abstract)
Successful ageing amongst older people needing care: international comparisons seeking solutions
- Author:
- CHEN Henglien Lisa
- Journal article citation:
- Social and Public Policy Review, 3(1), 2009, Online only
- Publisher:
- University of Plymouth
- Place of publication:
- Plymouth
Quality of life is one of the main concerns in long-term care amongst ageing populations in many countries. This paper explores the way that long-term care of older people is organised between the East and West, and considers how three countries (England, the Netherlands and Taiwan) may learn from one another in their search for solutions. The research was designed to include the views and experiences of all the actors in the three examples of welfare systems concerning the demand and supply of care resources and the impact of policy upon the provision of social inclusion in long-term care services. Most service users in the research supported the view that improvement in social well-being would increase their quality of life.
Key issues in cross-cultural psychology: selected papers from the Twelfth International Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology held in Pamplona-Iruna, Navarra, Spain
- Editors:
- GRAD Hector, BLANCO Amalio, GEAORGAS James
- Publisher:
- Swets and Zeitlinger
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 386p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Abingdon
Comparative study looking at a wide range of psychological issues worldwide. Contains papers divided into 6 sections: conceptual and methodological issues; consequences of acculturation; cognitive processes; values; social psychology; and personality, developmental psychology, and health psychology.
Intergenerational consumer influence in the US and Republic of China
- Author:
- BUSH Nancy L.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, 1(4), 2003, pp.71-88.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia
As a consequence of the changing world demographics, and an increasingly global media in the form of TV programmes, popular music and movies, marketers are seeking ways in which to exploit intergenerational and international relationships to improve the targeting of marketing related communications. It is well recognized that family members serve as influencers in consumption decisions both up and down the family structure. This paper examines the family relationships in the United States and the Republic of China (Taiwan or hereinafter ROC) as referent influences when targeting marketing messages. The members of family units in the two countries completed virtually identical surveys allowing the research to examine the consumer socialization of the family in a younger to elder structure, rather than the more common parent to child structure. Three hundred sets of surveys were distributed in each country through private high schools with student bodies of similar family income, education and occupation. All schools were in middle-class urban settings. The familial roles of teenager, parent and grandparent in the two countries are examined in light of possible alignments for formal and informal marketing message transmissions. This paper also considers the types of products or activities to be consumed, the member of the generational triad whose money is being spent, and potential differences between products or activities that are solely teenager consumed versus those consumed by the teenager as part of the family. Significant differences were found in the relationship pairing between the two countries, with the US grandparents agreeing with the teen's assessment most frequently, and the ROC parents and grandparents in closer accord. The alignments have potentially important implications for the advisability of intergeneration marketing efforts on a global scale. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).