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Male and female care: a different experience?
- Author:
- FEAR Tina
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 8(4), July 2000, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Presents the results of two small qualitative studies on whether male and female carers have different approaches to the caring role.
The probability of nursing home use over a lifetime in Australia
- Author:
- LIU Zhibin
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Welfare, 9(3), July 2000, pp.169-180.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article further develops the life table models used in the USA by taking advantage of the superior data available in Australia. The probabilities of nursing home use over a lifetime are estimated for various ages for men and women. The results show that over one-third of the members of a female birth cohort will eventually enter nursing homes for long-term care at least once. The corresponding probability for males is one in five. A woman at age 65 faces a probability as high as 39% of using a nursing home for permanent care before her death compared with 25% for a man at age 65.
Carework as a form of bodywork
- Author:
- TWIGG Julia
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 20(4), July 2000, pp.389-411.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This article argues for the importance of recognising carework as form of bodywork. It discusses why this central dimension has been neglected in accounts of carework, pointing to the ways in which community care has traditionally been analysed, the resistance of social gerontology to an overly bodily emphasis, and the conceptual dominance of the debate on care. Drawing on a study of the provision of help with bathing and washing for older people at home, it explores the body dimension of the activity, looking at how careworkers negotiate nakedness and touch, mange dirt and disgust, balance intimacy and distance. Finally, the paper draws together some of the key themes of this bodywork: its designation as 'dirty work', its hidden, silenced characters, the low occupational esteem in which it is held and its gendered nature.
Gender differences in survival of 234 patients referred to a psychogeriatric service
- Authors:
- DAVIS Philip S., et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 15(11), November 2000, pp.1061-1069.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This study aimed to explore the survival characteristics of psychogeriatric patients in Western Australia. Linked health service data were analysed using relative survival analysis and actuarial methods. Gender-specific factors appear to affect survival in psychogeriatric patients. Male patients are younger on average, but experience higher mortality than female patients.
Effects of age and gender on elderly suicide rates in catholic and orthodox countries: an inadvertent neglect
- Authors:
- PRITCHARD Colin, BALDWIN David
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 15(10), October 2000, pp.904-910.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
When compared to suicide rates in the general population, it may be expected that elderly suicide rates would be lower in Catholic and Orthodox societies than in non-Catholic or non-Orthodox countries because of religious affiliations and extended family traditions. National suicide rates in the general population were compared with rates in the sub-population of those aged over 75 years. Proportionately, there are significantly higher suicide rates in elderly men in Catholic and Orthodox countries, compared to rates in other countries, with a trend for similar findings among women. There may be important implications on health and social policy and clinical practice in the efforts to reduce suicide rates among elderly people.
Marital attachment and adjustment in older couples coping with cancer
- Authors:
- SHIELDS C.G., TRAVIS L.A., ROUSSEAU S.L.
- Journal article citation:
- Aging and Mental Health, 4(3), August 2000, pp.223-233.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The authors examine the role of marital attachment in how older couples adjust to the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Results found that secure attachment in wives was associated with higher marital satisfaction for husbands and wives and greater perceived health for wives with no significant interaction effect. The association of husbands' attachment style was moderated by the presence of cancer. The secure attachment of husbands in cancer couples was associated with poorer adjustment of wives: higher depressive symptoms and lower perceived health for wives. Discusses the theoretical and clinical implication of the findings.
Suicide in older people: mode of death, demographic factors, and medical contact before death
- Authors:
- HARWOOD Daniel Michael James, et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 15(8), August 2000, pp.736-743.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This study analyses the characteristics of 195 suicides in older people in four counties and one large urban area in England. Main results found that older men were at higher risk of suicide than women. The commonest methods of suicide were hanging in men and drug overdose in women. Although approximately half of the sample had consulted their GP shortly before death, over half these consultations were for physical complaints. Concludes that many GPs may have difficulty identifying those at risk because of the high proportion of physical complaints.
Adults only: disability, social policy and the life course
- Author:
- PRIESTLEY Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 29(3), July 2000, pp.421-439.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
This article examines the relationship between disability, generation and social policy. The moral and legislative framework for the post-war welfare settlement was grounded in a long-standing cultural construction of 'normal' life course progression. Disability and age (along with gender) were the key components in this construction, defining broad categories of welfare dependency and labour force exemption. The article suggests that, as policy-makers pursue their millennial settlement with mothers, children and older people, they also may be forced to reconstruct the relationship between disabled people and the welfare state.
Young and middle-aged adults' perceptions of elder abuse
- Authors:
- CHILDS Helen W., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 40(1), February 2000, pp.75-85.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Middle-aged and young adults completed in adaptation of the Severity of Violence Against Women Scale and the Elder Abuse Attitudes and Behavioural Intentions Scale - Revised to examine the impact of (a) respondent age, (b) age and gender or perpetrator and victim, and (c) history of experienced violence on perceptions of elder abuse. Results suggested that middle-aged respondents viewed psychological behaviours more harshly than did younger respondents and that both middle-aged women and young men were less tolerant of middle-aged perpetrators. These data support a view of elder abuse that emphasises its relativistic nature, wherein perceptions of elder abuse depend on both the characteristics of the perceiver and the victim and perpetrator variables.
Nutritional self-management of elderly widows in rural communities
- Authors:
- QUANDT Sara A., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 40(1), February 2000, pp.86-96.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Studies of the nutritional status of older adults (by marital status) and of older women recently widowed suggest that widows are nutritionally vulnerable. Yet few studies have examined nutrition-related behaviours among widows to see why this is true. The authors conceptualise these behaviours as nutritional self-management strategies, encompassing behaviours related to obtaining food, consuming it, and maintaining food security. Themes identified in recent windows' interviews and corroborated in those widowed longer indicate that there are varied responses to widowhood. Some may have a positive impact on nutritional strategies (e.g., following own dietary needs), but most are likely to be negative (e.g., meal skipping, reduced home food production, less dietary variety). Rural communities need to develop ways to identify such widows and assist them in finding acceptable ways to need nutritional needs.