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Digital Literacy in the Informal Economy of Ghana: Life-long Learning and Extending Working Lives of Older Persons in Post-Covid-19 Era. 加纳非正规经济中的数字扫盲:后科维德-19 时代老年人的终身学习和延长工作寿命》。
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Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2024-08-19 DOI: 10.1007/s10823-024-09514-9
Samuel Ampadu Oteng, Esmeranda Manful, Jacob Oppong Nkansah
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Joint Leisure Activities of Older Vietnamese Married Couples. 越南已婚老年夫妇的共同休闲活动。
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Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1007/s10823-024-09516-7
Minh Huu Nguyen, Huong Thi Mai Phan
{"title":"Joint Leisure Activities of Older Vietnamese Married Couples.","authors":"Minh Huu Nguyen, Huong Thi Mai Phan","doi":"10.1007/s10823-024-09516-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10823-024-09516-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Leisure activities enjoyed by older married couples play an important part in creating more meaningful married lives. The study focuses on the prevalence of joint leisure activities by older couples, the factors influencing older adults' engagement in leisure activities together, and the relationship between joint participation in leisure activities and marital satisfaction of older couples. The quantitative sample included 414 married respondents aged 55 years and above from different parts of Vietnam. The leisure activities analyzed in the paper include vacation/travel, watching movies, music, karaoke singing outside the house, walking around the house, attending cultural events and festivals, watching TV, drinking tea, and doing exercise. The study results showed that the level of joint engagement in leisure activities in places near home with less cost was higher than those engaged in elsewhere. Couples with better living standards, higher education, better health, and who lived in urban areas more actively participated in leisure activities far from home. Vietnamese couples who engage in more leisure activities together had a higher level of overall satisfaction with their marriage, and greater satisfaction in several dimensions of their marital relationship than those who did not participate in leisure activities with their partners.</p>","PeriodicalId":46921,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology","volume":" ","pages":"335-354"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142523304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Community Building Through Place-Making Activities: Older Landscapers in a Singaporean Residential Town. 通过场所营造活动建设社区:新加坡住宅区的老年园艺师。
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Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-29 DOI: 10.1007/s10823-024-09499-5
Benny Tong
{"title":"Community Building Through Place-Making Activities: Older Landscapers in a Singaporean Residential Town.","authors":"Benny Tong","doi":"10.1007/s10823-024-09499-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10823-024-09499-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper explores how some older residents in B Town, a residential estate in northern Singapore, engage in community building through their 'serious leisure' and 'devotee work' participation in a resident landscaper program. Using data from ethnographic fieldwork conducted from February to November 2020 with participants aged from 60 to 81, I analyze how they built connections with each other, and the wider B Town community, through their participation. Particularly, I examine how the shared identity marker of being former farmers in now-evicted kampungs (villages) before the 1980s drew them together, and informed their continued involvement as resident landscapers. The 'kampung spirit' that they built up through the program enabled the construction of not only social connections, but also exclusionary mechanisms that prevented more older adults from engaging in the activities. These findings highlight participants' agency, and complicate static and/or monolithic conceptualizations of 'aging in place/the community' and 'active aging'.</p>","PeriodicalId":46921,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology","volume":" ","pages":"231-254"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139991489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Beyond 'Productive Aging': An Argument for 'Happy Aging'. 超越 "富有成效的老龄化":快乐老龄化 "论证。
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Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Epub Date: 2023-03-06 DOI: 10.1007/s10823-023-09475-5
Gordon Mathews
{"title":"Beyond 'Productive Aging': An Argument for 'Happy Aging'.","authors":"Gordon Mathews","doi":"10.1007/s10823-023-09475-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10823-023-09475-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper critically considers the concept of 'productive aging,' maintaining that although the term emerged as an effort to aid older people, it may be normative and potentially coercive. The paper illustrates this premise through an examination of Japan, through analysis of interviews conducted over decades, and, more fully, an analysis of advice books for Japanese seniors over the past twenty years. These advice books show how seniors in Japan are now increasingly urged to find contentment in old age as they themselves see fit, without concern over 'contributing to society.' In crucial respects, Japan has been moving from 'productive aging' to 'happy aging' as a guide for how to age. The paper then considers the judgment inherent in the term 'productive aging'-are some forms of aging better than other forms of aging?-by examining competing conceptions of happiness, advocating on the basis of this examination that the term 'productive aging' be replaced by 'happy aging.'</p>","PeriodicalId":46921,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology","volume":" ","pages":"213-229"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9986657/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10866592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Gender, Work, and Leisure in Old Age in China and India. 中国和印度老年人的性别、工作和休闲。
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Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-12 DOI: 10.1007/s10823-024-09497-7
Shu Hu, Dhiman Das
{"title":"Gender, Work, and Leisure in Old Age in China and India.","authors":"Shu Hu, Dhiman Das","doi":"10.1007/s10823-024-09497-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10823-024-09497-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper examines how paid and unpaid work affects leisure differently for older women and men in China and India. We use data from the World Health Organization's Study on Global Aging and Health. We find that urban China, with higher levels of public welfare and gender equality, represents the best scenario for older adults' leisure life in developing countries. Although urban Chinese women are disadvantaged relative to urban Chinese men, they still enjoy longer hours of leisure and relaxing leisure than both men and women in rural China, urban India and rural India. Furthermore, the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition results show gender disparities in unpaid housework to be the primary driver of gender inequalities in leisure in all societies, albeit to varying degrees. These findings highlight the role of public welfare, gender equality, and the gendered consequences of the family support model in shaping older adults' leisure life.</p>","PeriodicalId":46921,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology","volume":" ","pages":"271-297"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139724429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Introduction to Special Issue of Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology on Leisure and Older Adults in Asia. 跨文化老年学杂志》特刊 "亚洲休闲与老年人 "导言。
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Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-09-11 DOI: 10.1007/s10823-024-09515-8
Benny Tong, Leng Leng Thang, Jeofrey Abalos
{"title":"Introduction to Special Issue of Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology on Leisure and Older Adults in Asia.","authors":"Benny Tong, Leng Leng Thang, Jeofrey Abalos","doi":"10.1007/s10823-024-09515-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10823-024-09515-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article introduces the special issue \"Leisure and older adults in Asia.\" Although the study of older adults' participation in leisure has gained traction over the last decade, there is need to consider in greater depth the central role that leisure activities may play in the construction of identities and lifestyles in later life. The collection of articles in this special issue contributes to the emerging literature on the intersection of leisure and aging by presenting diverse contexts and methodologies to build a comprehensive understanding of leisure participation among older adults in China, India, Sri Lanka, Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Singapore. They reveal a common thread highlighting the close relationship between leisure participation and various quantitative and qualitative markers of well-being and quality of life in old age, such as health, social participation, and sense of self. The papers also highlight the importance of leisure as a socio-cultural resource through which older adults can negotiate their experiences in later life. Through the different case studies and discussion, the special issue contributes to critical Asian perspective regarding the place of leisure within discourses of 'productive'/'successful'/'active' aging.</p>","PeriodicalId":46921,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology","volume":" ","pages":"207-211"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142298495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Journey in the Impure Land: Buddhist Pilgrimage and Perceptions of Life and Old Age in Vietnam. 不净之地的旅行:越南的佛教朝圣和对生命与老年的感悟。
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Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-06-05 DOI: 10.1007/s10823-024-09509-6
Le Hoang Anh Thu
{"title":"Journey in the Impure Land: Buddhist Pilgrimage and Perceptions of Life and Old Age in Vietnam.","authors":"Le Hoang Anh Thu","doi":"10.1007/s10823-024-09509-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10823-024-09509-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Religiously inspired travel has burgeoned in Vietnam in recent years, amidst rapid economic development and a booming tourist industry. Buddhist pilgrimages particularly attract older women, who compose the majority of temple goers in Vietnam. Having lived through volatile historical periods of war, economic hardship, and political transformations, travelling on pilgrimage is the first opportunity for many older Vietnamese women to enjoy new places and experiences. Drawing on data collected during my field research among Buddhist women pilgrims in their sixties and seventies from Ho Chi Minh City, I show how pilgrimage is seen as a journey of a lifetime and how it reflects the perception of life and self-transformation along the life course. Drawing on Victor and Edith Turner's (1978 [2011]) discussion of pilgrimage as the antistructure of everyday social life, this paper explains why pilgrimage is markedly different from other life experiences of Vietnamese women, and how religious travel positions old age not as the culmination of self-development, but rather as an ongoing process of gaining wisdom.</p>","PeriodicalId":46921,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology","volume":" ","pages":"255-270"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141248928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Free Time in Old Age: Does Health Status Determine the Choice of Leisure Activities in Indonesia? 老年人的空闲时间:在印度尼西亚,健康状况是否决定休闲活动的选择?
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Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Epub Date: 2023-09-15 DOI: 10.1007/s10823-023-09489-z
Evi Nurvidya Arifin
{"title":"Free Time in Old Age: Does Health Status Determine the Choice of Leisure Activities in Indonesia?","authors":"Evi Nurvidya Arifin","doi":"10.1007/s10823-023-09489-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10823-023-09489-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper examines which leisure activities appear more attractive to older people, considering health status, disability and demographic-socio-economic and environmental variables. It employed data from Survei Penduduk Antar Sensus (SUPAS), the nationwide survey, conducted in 2015 by Indonesia's national statistical office. The sample selected 228,718 individuals aged 60 years old and above. Leisure activities were differentiated between active, sedentary, and no leisure activities. Health is measured with both health status and disability. Disability measures were adopted from Washington Group Short Set on Functioning-Enhanced (WG-SS Enhanced). Our multinomial regression models confirmed that health status was correlated with the choice of leisure activities in old age. Compared to older persons in good health, those reported in poor health without disruption to daily life were more likely to participate in sedentary or active leisure, but those with disruption to daily life were less likely to do so. Older persons with disability were disadvantaged in participating in either passive or active leisure. However, among all selected variables, employment and source of finance had the highest odds ratios and confounded the relationship between health and leisure activity.</p>","PeriodicalId":46921,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology","volume":" ","pages":"355-374"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10298706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Impact of Leisure Activities on the Well-being of Elders: Evidence from Sri Lanka. 休闲活动对老年人福祉的影响:斯里兰卡的证据
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Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Epub Date: 2023-03-21 DOI: 10.1007/s10823-023-09474-6
W S M Goonatilaka, W Indralal De Silva
{"title":"Impact of Leisure Activities on the Well-being of Elders: Evidence from Sri Lanka.","authors":"W S M Goonatilaka, W Indralal De Silva","doi":"10.1007/s10823-023-09474-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10823-023-09474-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sri Lanka demonstrates the most rapid aging process among countries in South Asia. The high prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the meanwhile results in more than 70% of deaths in the population, a factor that would curtail leisure activities of elders significantly. The objective of this study was to investigate the engagement of elders in leisure activities in Sri Lanka, and to examine the relationship between leisure activities and their well-being. The study was conducted in 2018 in a rural district of Sri Lanka adopting a mixed methods approach. Simple random sampling technique was used to select the respondents aged between 55 and 74 years, and face-to-face interviews were conducted with 300 respondents. Qualitative data was also collected from ten key informants while a few observations were also made on selected activities of elders in the study area. The research found that a two-thirds of the surveyed respondents were suffering from NCDs, showing a clear impact on their leisure activities. The presence of leisure activities was much lower among NCD affected elders (48%) compared to NCD free elders (80%). The majority of respondents possess sufficient and accurate knowledge on how to prevent NCDs, but they rarely practiced it. Leisure activities were significantly higher among males (75%) compared to females (43%). Males participated in leisure activities such as, gardening/agriculture etc. (99%), while females were engaged in religious activities such as visiting such places and meditation (98%). Leisure engagement demonstrated a positive impact on their life satisfaction. Although a sizable proportion of elders was engaged in leisure activities, analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data supported the view that the intensity of activities may not be helpful to maintain good health. Life satisfaction and well-being of elders are crucial for rapidly aging Sri Lankan society. Motivating elders and others, including school children, via strengthening of related policies and programs would reduce the NCD burden and enable present and future elders to enjoy a more fulfilling life in old age.</p>","PeriodicalId":46921,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology","volume":" ","pages":"315-334"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9566743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Urban/Rural Disparity in Quality of Life among the Older Adults in China: Mediation Effect of Leisure Activity. 中国老年人生活质量的城乡差异:休闲活动的中介效应
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Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-08-20 DOI: 10.1007/s10823-024-09512-x
Yingling Liu
{"title":"Urban/Rural Disparity in Quality of Life among the Older Adults in China: Mediation Effect of Leisure Activity.","authors":"Yingling Liu","doi":"10.1007/s10823-024-09512-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10823-024-09512-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The current study revisits the urban/rural quality of life (QOL) disparity among the older adults in China. It aims to test the potential leisure activity mechanism. Data for this study come from the 2011 and 2014 wave of Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS). Sample is restricted to the respondents who are 65 years old and older who are alive for both waves. Ordered logistic regression model is used to test the relationship between QOL and urban/rural residency. Mediation test is used to investigate the mediation effect of leisure activities. Findings from the analysis show that urban older adults have higher QOL, as well as higher frequency of participating leisure activities compare to their rural counterparts. Results also show that leisure activities, especially the cognitive stimulation activities mediate the relationship between urban/rural residency and QOL. The current study adds the role of leisure activities as an intervening variable between urban/rural residency and QOL among older adults in China. Policy application to reduce the QOL disparity through leisure activities is also discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":46921,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology","volume":" ","pages":"299-313"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142005525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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