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Recruitment and retention strategies among older African American women enrolled in an exercise study at a PACE program
- Authors:
- SULLIVAN-MARX Eileen M., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 51(S1), June 2011, pp.S73-S81.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
PACE (Program for All-Inclusive Care of Elders) is a US model of care for older people. The aim of this study was to examine the use of specific recruitment and retention strategies in a study evaluating outcomes of an exercise programme for older African American women with functional impairments who were members of a PACE, through which they were eligible for nursing home level of care while living at home in the community with family or other support. The strategies focused on partnership between researchers and participants, partnership between researchers and clinicians, overcoming administrative issues, and reducing burden on clinicians and participants. The exercise protocol consisted of strength and endurance activity 2 to 3 times a week for 16 weeks. The article reports on recruitment and retention methods used and the results of the study, including characteristics of completers and non-completers of the exercise programme and satisfaction outcomes. The project enrolled 52 women and 37 (71.2%) of them completed the exercise programme. The authors discuss the challenges of engaging frail older adult adults in exercise as a life habit and the need for a systematic team approach that includes rigorous processes and evaluation.
An intersectional theoretical framework for exploring racialized older immigrant women’s subjectivities
- Author:
- SYED Manaal
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work, 22(2), 2022, pp.440-459.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Summary: Today, racialized older women’s international migration is increasingly accelerated, cyclical and transnational, illustrating the transcendence of lives across time and space. At the same time, immigration regimes regulate and restrict these seemingly unfettered mobilities using neoliberal, gendered and ageist policies that favor (younger) skilled immigration. This article addresses the question of how social work can use intersectionality perspectives to theorize racialized older immigrant women’s lives which are stretched across multiple time(s) and space(s) yet confined within highly regulated multi-tiered immigration systems. Findings: This article outlines a theoretical framework grounded specifically within intersectional feminist, post-structural, and transnational aging perspectives. The framework embraces the temporality, spatiality, and transnationality of gendered, aging and migrant lives and reconsiders their agency as a performed subjectivity bound by multiple forces of institutionalized regimes. Applications: This theoretical framework moves social work inquiry to a richer understanding of the migratory realities of diverse aging lives that are simultaneously in-motion and regulated within structural constraints. (Edited publisher abstract)
Women and alcohol: social perspectives
- Editor:
- STADDON Patsy
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 224
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Issues relating to alcohol 'misuse' can only properly be understood within their social and environmental contexts. This research and practice based book explores social models of alcohol misuse to offer a sociological approach to its treatment. Through considering the social meaning of women's alcohol use, the book challenges current policy and practice in the field. It raises concerns about the political role of 'treatment' in making women behave, or to be 'well', and aims to develop a new approach to women's drinking and new ways of aiding recovery, at national and local levels. With contributions from service users, academics and practitioners, the book is aimed at those studying addiction, gender and the social background to alcohol problems. (Edited publisher abstract)
Meeting the challenges of urban aging: narratives of poor elderly women of Detroit, Michigan
- Author:
- ONOLEMHEMHEN Durrenda Nash
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 52(7), October 2009, pp.729-743.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Among the elderly, there is a larger percentage of poor women than men. Many ageing minority women in poverty reside in the urban areas of America. This phenomenological study investigates poor urban women living in the inner city of Detroit, Michigan from a strengths perspective. In-depth interviews found that poor urban women exhibited both personal and environmental strengths. These strengths can be successfully used by social workers in their practice with this client population.
POW (Protect Our Women): results of a breast cancer prevention project targeted on older African-American women
- Author:
- KIDDER Beverly
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Health Care, 47(1), 2008, pp.60-72.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Breast cancer deaths for older African American women are higher than for their Caucasian counterparts, and this study evaluates an outreach education programme about mammography and breast examination. Given the ineffectiveness of traditional outreach strategies with this group, the project worked with a panel of African American women who were recognised as community leaders. A total of 112 women were identified as participants and received a package of written information and details of an awareness workshop, which was attended by 62. Of these, 72% had a mammogram within a month of attendance, 9% had one scheduled, 16% were unsure about having a mammogram and 3% did not respond. Of those who did not attend the workshop, 58% did not respond to follow-up. Of those who did, 22% had had a mammogram, while 20% had no plans to have one. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Suicidal thoughts among elderly Taiwanese aboriginal women
- Authors:
- CHEN Cheng-Sheng, et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 23(10), October 2008, pp.1001-1006.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The aims of this study were to investigate prevalence of suicidal thoughts among a population of elderly aboriginal women in Taiwan over a 1-month period and to examine the risk factors for suicidal thinking in terms of individual (self-perceived health, disability and financial difficulty), family (marital discord) and social (medical accessibility) aspects. The mediating effects of depression on the above risk factors were also investigated. Furthermore, the buffer effect on suicidal ideation of emotional social support for dealing with marital discord was examined. One thousand three hundred and forty-seven elderly Taiwanese aboriginal women were enrolled. Suicide thoughts within the past month, demographic data, adverse life events, emotional social support and depressive state were assessed. The 1-month prevalence of suicide thoughts was calculated. The risks of suicide thought based on individual, family and community aspects were estimated. The 1-month prevalence of suicidal thoughts among the community-dwelling aboriginal elderly women was 17.8%. Those subjects with poorer self-perceived health, difficulty in accessing medical resources, or experiencing marital discord were at higher risk of having suicidal thoughts. After controlling for depression, the odds ratio of self-perceived health and marital discord remained statistically significant. The odds ratio of interaction of marital discord and emotional social support was 0.41. Suicidal thoughts are common among the community-dwelling aboriginal elderly women in Taiwan. Risk factors for suicidal thoughts comprise individual (depression and physical condition), family (marital discord) and community (medical resources) aspects. Better emotional social support can effectively buffer the effect of marital discord.
Filipinas as residential long-term care providers: influence of cultural values, structural inequity, and immigrant status on choosing this work
- Authors:
- BROWNE Colette V, BRAUN Kathryn L, ARNSBERGER Pam
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 48(3/4), 2007, pp.439-455.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This exploratory study investigated reasons why Filipinas in Hawaii have become the primary caregivers of elders in residential care homes and if they thought their children would follow them in this profession. A random sample of 173 Filipina care home operators (CHO), of which 95% were first-generation immigrants, was interviewed using telephone survey methods. Data were collected: to profile caregivers; to identify motivations for becoming a care home operator; and to gauge if they or their children would continue in this line of work. The sample was composed of middle-aged Filipina CHO with training and experience in elder care who concurred that the job fit their cultural values. About a third also felt that this job was open to immigrants and helped them buy a house. Twenty percent or less felt discriminated against because of this work. Although half the sample felt that women were better caregivers than men, only 38% felt that caregiving was primarily the responsibility of women. Almost 90% planned to continue with this work, but only 12% said it was likely that their children or grandchildren would become CHO, supporting the notion that choosing this profession had less to do with cultural values and gender expectations than with economic opportunities available to the current cohort of CHO. Given these findings, Hawaii's capacity to meet future residential longterm care needs is discussed. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Reducing poverty among older women: social security reform and gender equity
- Authors:
- GONYEA Judith G., HOOYMAN Nancy R.
- Journal article citation:
- Families in Society, 86(3), July 2005, pp.338-346.
- Publisher:
- The Alliance for Children and Families
The authors document the higher poverty rate of older women, especially women from minority ethnic groups, compared with older men. They then review how the U.S. Social Security program generally benefits older women and reduces their late-life economic vulnerability. A persistent gender inequity, however, is that women are more likely to disrupt their paid employment to meet family care responsibilities, which may increase the number of zero-earnings years and reduce the amount paid into Social Security. Current proposals to privatize the Social Security system are critiqued in terms of their gender inequities. Three relatively revenue-neutral proposals that could increase Social Security’s protection against poverty and differentially affect low income women are briefly discussed.
Significance of family involvement for older Mexican American women: implications for practice
- Authors:
- HATCHETT Bonnie F., GARCIA Lydia, MARTIN Christina
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Family Social Work, 6(2), 2001, pp.55-68.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Due to increasing longevity of older adults it is essential that issues affecting life satisfaction are explored and well-being to gather information pertinent to quality of life issues. Reports findings from a pilot study utilising a non-random convenience sample design to determine attitudes about perceptions of well-being in a sample consisting of older Mexican American women residing along the Texas-Mexico border. Implications for social workers as well as other providers of service to ethnic minority older adults are included.
Empowerment, disempowerment and quality of life for older people
- Authors:
- AFSHAR Haleh, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 11(4), December 2001, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
Reports on a research project which is part of the ESRC Growing Older initiative. Looks particularly at how Black and Asian women understand and evaluate their quality of life and how this quality might be extended. Looks at the findings to date.