This practical report has been produced by the Elders Council of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. It provides a useful model for both planners and other local groups who want to make sure that their town or city centre is designed to make it welcoming and accessible to all generations.
This practical report has been produced by the Elders Council of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. It provides a useful model for both planners and other local groups who want to make sure that their town or city centre is designed to make it welcoming and accessible to all generations.
Subject terms:
models, older people, planning, urban areas, day centres;
A broad definition of extra care housing is ‘specially designed or adapted housing in which varying amounts of care and support can be offered and where some services and facilities are shared’. Government policy promotes ‘extra care’ housing, although currently it is only a small proportion of total provision and there are debates about its potential to completely replace residential care. This outline explores the evidence around options that involve a person with dementia (sometimes with a spouse or family member) moving from their own home into other accommodation.
A broad definition of extra care housing is ‘specially designed or adapted housing in which varying amounts of care and support can be offered and where some services and facilities are shared’. Government policy promotes ‘extra care’ housing, although currently it is only a small proportion of total provision and there are debates about its potential to completely replace residential care. This outline explores the evidence around options that involve a person with dementia (sometimes with a spouse or family member) moving from their own home into other accommodation.
Subject terms:
models, older people, supported housing, dementia, extra care housing;
Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 48(3/4), 2007, pp.311-329.
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Place of publication:
Philadelphia, USA
This paper tests Stroebe and Schut's Dual Process Model of Bereavement using data from the Changing Lives of Older Couples (CLOC), a prospective study of 1,532 married persons over the age of 65 from the United States. This analysis focused on a weighted sample of 104 widowers and 492 widows at six months, 18 months, and four years later. Bradburn's Affect Balance Scale was used as the dependent variable, and the independent variables were based on Stroebe and Schut's bereavement model. The multiple regression analyses revealed that loss and restoration-oriented activities were important throughout bereavement. Implications for bereavement counselling are discussed. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
This paper tests Stroebe and Schut's Dual Process Model of Bereavement using data from the Changing Lives of Older Couples (CLOC), a prospective study of 1,532 married persons over the age of 65 from the United States. This analysis focused on a weighted sample of 104 widowers and 492 widows at six months, 18 months, and four years later. Bradburn's Affect Balance Scale was used as the dependent variable, and the independent variables were based on Stroebe and Schut's bereavement model. The multiple regression analyses revealed that loss and restoration-oriented activities were important throughout bereavement. Implications for bereavement counselling are discussed. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 21(4), April 2006, pp.333-336.
Publisher:
Wiley
This study aimed to investigate the factor structure of a ten-item version of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CESD-10). Two hundred and thirty-one Chinese persons aged 60-92 were individually interviewed with the CESD-10. The data were subject to confirmatory factor analysis testing several competing models. The one-factor model hypothesizes that all ten items are loaded on a single factor. In the two-factor model, positive affect items are loaded on one factor, and the remaining items on the other. The three-factor model distinguishes between positive affect, depressed affect, and somatic symptoms. The three-factor model was the best fitting model, with a comparative fit index of 0.95 and a standardized root mean square residual of 0.06. Depressed affect and somatic symptoms were highly correlated, and both were moderately correlated with positive affect. Nonetheless, all three factors appeared to tap a common underlying construct of depression - when a higher-order construct of depression was allowed to explain the intercorrelations of the three factors, depressed affect loaded at 0.88, somatic symptoms loaded at 0.92, and positive affect loaded at 0.51, on the higher-order construct. It is concluded that the data provided support for the factorial validity of the CESD-10.
This study aimed to investigate the factor structure of a ten-item version of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CESD-10). Two hundred and thirty-one Chinese persons aged 60-92 were individually interviewed with the CESD-10. The data were subject to confirmatory factor analysis testing several competing models. The one-factor model hypothesizes that all ten items are loaded on a single factor. In the two-factor model, positive affect items are loaded on one factor, and the remaining items on the other. The three-factor model distinguishes between positive affect, depressed affect, and somatic symptoms. The three-factor model was the best fitting model, with a comparative fit index of 0.95 and a standardized root mean square residual of 0.06. Depressed affect and somatic symptoms were highly correlated, and both were moderately correlated with positive affect. Nonetheless, all three factors appeared to tap a common underlying construct of depression - when a higher-order construct of depression was allowed to explain the intercorrelations of the three factors, depressed affect loaded at 0.88, somatic symptoms loaded at 0.92, and positive affect loaded at 0.51, on the higher-order construct. It is concluded that the data provided support for the factorial validity of the CESD-10.
Subject terms:
models, older people, Chinese people, depression, diagnostic tests;
University of Sheffield. Department of Sociological Studies. ESRC Growing Older
Publication year:
2001
Pagination:
24p.
Place of publication:
Sheffield
Contains abstracts of papers cited. Part of the Growing Older Programme Occasional Paper series.
Contains abstracts of papers cited. Part of the Growing Older Programme Occasional Paper series.
Extended abstract:
Author
MARTIMO Kristiina;
Title
Quality of life: an annotated bibliography. Publisher
University of Sheffield. Department of Sociological Studies. ESRC Growing Older Programme, 2001. Series
Summary
This bibliography contains key references on quality of life and quality of life in old age.
Context
The rising numbers of older people, the ‘baby boomers’, are and ideal generation on which to base research aimed at gaining a comprehensive understanding of the views of older people about the conditions which can achieve a good quality of life in later years. If social science researchers were able to agree on theoretical principles which could be used to build a multi-dimensional measure including all major components of quality of life, such an instrument would make comparative and longitudinal studies possible and the data from all these studies would be compatible, which would give us large amounts of interesting information on what constitutes good quality of life for older people and help to guide social policy decisions towards improving the quality of everyone’s old age.
Method
Contents
The bibliography does not pretend to be exhaustive but tries to provide an introduction to some of the literature most relevant to the Growing Older Programme. The articles result from searches on quality of life, life satisfaction, well-being and quality of life of older people. They are organised according to themes, beginning with a look back at the origins of the concept of quality of life, through economic and social indicators and the problems of implementing these in social policy. Next there are comparative approaches, examining the definition of basic need difficulties in finding common ground in what counts as universal well-being, wider issues concerning human development and differences in individualist and collectivist societies. Then comes a look at the varied ways of measuring quality of life with subjective and objective indicators, defining the levels of domains under which quality of life would be impossible and the difficulties facing policy makers in trying to influence the quality of people’s lives. The next section turns to health status evaluation and the many interpretations of quality of life as a measurable concept. Then comes how quality of life of older people has influenced social gerontology and the need to develop a measure which would make it possible to compare older people’s quality of life in similar and different settings., followed by a look at Hughes’ quality of life model and the multi-domain continuum through social indicators of well-being and enhancing the quality of extended life years. The next section looks at the critique of quality of life scales for older people by Gubrium and Lynott, who argue that the image of the life satisfaction of older people influences its measurement, compared with the real satisfactions and experiences of their everyday lives. The final section looks at age and happiness, starting with definitions of successful ageing, looking at intimacy as a critical variable, activity theory of ageing, happiness and social participation, chronological age and its effect on well-being and the positive and negative affect by age. All entries have abstracts.
Subject terms:
literature reviews, models, older people, quality of life, health needs;
Housing Care and Support, 4(3), August 2001, pp.22-25.
Publisher:
Emerald
This year's Reith lectures focused on older people and questioned the inevitability of the ageing process. One lecture was to an audience of older people living in an 'extra care' scheme focused on activity and health - 'adding life to years'. In a specially commissioned series of articles, the author explains how extra care models and new 'retirement communities' are becoming an alternative to residential care and traditional sheltered housing. The first offers a typology for extra care. The second will be about modelling the care services, and the third on land and building development issues.
This year's Reith lectures focused on older people and questioned the inevitability of the ageing process. One lecture was to an audience of older people living in an 'extra care' scheme focused on activity and health - 'adding life to years'. In a specially commissioned series of articles, the author explains how extra care models and new 'retirement communities' are becoming an alternative to residential care and traditional sheltered housing. The first offers a typology for extra care. The second will be about modelling the care services, and the third on land and building development issues.
The gerontological social sciences have a bad record in distinguishing between need and demand in the context of chronic care services of older people. This article reviews and proposes distinctions among the overlapping concepts of need, demand and use of gerontological chronic care services. Also offers a suggested measurement protocol.
The gerontological social sciences have a bad record in distinguishing between need and demand in the context of chronic care services of older people. This article reviews and proposes distinctions among the overlapping concepts of need, demand and use of gerontological chronic care services. Also offers a suggested measurement protocol.
Subject terms:
models, needs, older people, social care provision, assessment;
Journal of Social Work Education, 36(3), 2000, pp.521-538.
Publisher:
Council on Social Work Education
Longevity is one of the great achievements of the 20th century and its implications for the new century will be profound. The unprecedented demographic shift to an increasingly older society will have a dramatic impact on individual choices over the life course, the structure of the family, and multiple social institutions. Social work can make unique professional contributions to older persons and the late-life family. This article asserts, however, that social work is not adequately prepared to practice in the aging society. The authors document the challenges to social work and recommend addressing these challenges through educational innovations.
Longevity is one of the great achievements of the 20th century and its implications for the new century will be profound. The unprecedented demographic shift to an increasingly older society will have a dramatic impact on individual choices over the life course, the structure of the family, and multiple social institutions. Social work can make unique professional contributions to older persons and the late-life family. This article asserts, however, that social work is not adequately prepared to practice in the aging society. The authors document the challenges to social work and recommend addressing these challenges through educational innovations.
Subject terms:
models, older people, policy, social work education, social work methods;