Ageing and Society
SSCI-ISI SCOPUS (1981-2025)
0144-686X
1469-1779
Anh Quốc
Cơ quản chủ quản: Cambridge University Press , CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
Lĩnh vực:
Social PsychologyPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthGeriatrics and GerontologyHealth (social science)Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
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A critical review of the literature on social and leisure activity and wellbeing in later life
Tập 31 Số 4 - Trang 683-712 - 2011
ABSTRACTAn engaged lifestyle is seen as an important component of successful
ageing. Many older adults with high participation in social and leisure
activities report positive wellbeing, a fact that fuelled the original activity
theory and that continues to influence researchers, theorists and practitioners.
This study's purpose is to review the conceptualisation and measurement of
activity among ...
Older adults' use of information and communications technology in everyday life
Tập 23 Số 5 - Trang 561-582 - 2003
Social commentators in countries such as the United Kingdom and the United
States are beginning to recognise that encouraging older adults' use of
information and communication technologies (ICTs) is essential for the creation
of bona fide information societies. To date, however, few studies have examined
in detail older adults' access to and use of ICTs. This important aspect of the
interaction b...
The Structured Dependency of the Elderly: A Creation of Social Policy in the Twentieth Century
Tập 1 Số 1 - Trang 5-28 - 1981
ABSTRACTIf we are to develop better methods of integrating elderly people into
society then above all we need a better sociology of the ageing and the aged. In
this paper I wish to put forward the thesis that the dependency of the elderly
in the twentieth century is being manufactured socially and that its severity is
unnecessary. The process can therefore be revised or at least modified. Certain
...
‘Payback time’: community volunteering among older adults as a transformative mechanism
Tập 25 Số 4 - Trang 567-584 - 2005
This qualitative study explores the conditions and experiences of older adults'
‘formal’ volunteering through non-profit organisations (NPOs) in Toronto from
both organisational and individual perspectives. In spite of the ageing
population and the need for NPOs to expand their services, the participation of
Canadian seniors in community volunteering has been stagnant for 15 years. What
organisati...
The construction of the risk of falling among and by older people
Tập 22 Số 3 - Trang 305-324 - 2002
Risk is frequently invoked in contemporary accounts of ill health, but its
construction is often constrained by a rationalist perspective that focuses on
physical causes and functional outcomes, and that presents risk as external to
the self and predictable. This paper describes an empirical study of the ways in
which risk was realised and managed in a day hospital for older people. An
ethnographi...
The Meaning of Informal Care: Gender and the Contribution of Elderly People
Tập 10 Số 4 - Trang 429-454 - 1990
ABSTRACT‘Caring’ and ‘carers’ are words in frequent use in social policy, but
their meaning is often vague and undefined, encompassing a wide range of
activities and relationships. This paper discusses the meaning of caring and
focuses particular attention on older carers. Secondary analysis of the 1985
Office of Population, Censuses and Surveys (OPCS) Informal Carers Survey data
shows that of the...
Factors Affecting the Use of Social and Health Services Among the Elderly
Tập 1 Số 1 - Trang 95-115 - 1981
ABSTRACTThis study has systematically examined the use of health and social
services among non-institutionalized elderly people according to the Andersen
model which groups factors influencing use into predisposing, enabling and need
variables. Need for service as evidenced by physical and psychological
functioning was the most important predictor of use of physician services and
hospitalization. ...
Exploring the health and wellbeing benefits of gardening for older adults
Tập 35 Số 10 - Trang 2176-2200 - 2015
ABSTRACTResearch shows that contact with nature plays a vital role in our
psychological wellbeing. Domestic gardening is common among older adults who
spend more leisure hours gardening than any other age group. Despite this, few
studies have systematically explored the significance of domestic gardens in
relation to older adults' health and wellbeing. This study examined the
perceived therapeutic...
Attributes of age-identity
Tập 25 Số 4 - Trang 479-500 - 2005
Chronological age can be an unsatisfactory method of discriminating between
older people. The lay concept of how old people actually feel may be more
useful. The aim of the analyses reported in this paper was to investigate
indicators of age-identity (or subjective age) among a national random sample of
people aged 65 or more years living at home in Britain. Information was
initially collected by ...
Financial transfers between generations in Sweden
Tập 25 Số 6 - Trang 397-414 - 2005
This study has examined the flow of financial transfers between generations in
Sweden, measured as financial support in the form of relatively large money
transactions or gifts over 12 months. Two questions are considered: is there a
net downward flow in the Swedish welfare state and, if so, are there differences
according to gender and social class? The questions were tested using data from
two l...