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Seize the Data: An Analysis of Guardianship Annual Reports. 抓住数据：监护年度报告分析》。

IF 2 3区社会学

Journal of Aging & Social Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-05 DOI: 10.1080/08959420.2024.2349494

Joanne Tompkins, Heather Connors, Diane Robinson

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Sexual Assault in Older-Age Adults: Criminal Justice Response in New Zealand. 老年人的性侵犯:新西兰的刑事司法回应。

IF 2 3区社会学

Journal of Aging & Social Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2023-11-26 DOI: 10.1080/08959420.2023.2284575

Tess Patterson, Linda Hobbs, Elliott Brown, Yoram Barak

{"title":"Sexual Assault in Older-Age Adults: Criminal Justice Response in New Zealand.","authors":"Tess Patterson, Linda Hobbs, Elliott Brown, Yoram Barak","doi":"10.1080/08959420.2023.2284575","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08959420.2023.2284575","url":null,"abstract":"There is growing recognition that older persons, both male and female, may experience sexual assault. One clearly identified gap in the body of scientific literature is examination of the criminal justice response for older adults who have been sexually assaulted. This retrospective age-group comparative data analysis examines publicly available population and police statistics for 2018 to describe rates (per 100,000) of reported sexual assault across adult age categories (young adult, n = 748; adult, n = 1,478; middle age, n = 290; older adult, n = 58) and compare (using Chi-square bivariate analysis) the criminal justice response to sexual assault for these adult age categories in New Zealand (NZ). Sexual assault was perpetrated against victims across all age and sex groups examined. The rate of reported sexual assault against older adults was significantly lower after the age of 65 years (7.90 per 100,000) compared to younger adults aged 20-64 years (87.57 per 100,000). Across age categories no difference was found in the proportion of cases proceeded to court action. This study raises awareness of the topic of sexual assault perpetrated against older persons and shows that a substantial number of older adults experience sexual assault in cases that do not result in court action. It points to the need for policy-makers to consider the reporting of sexual assaults against older persons to justice services.","PeriodicalId":47121,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging & Social Policy","volume":" ","pages":"496-511"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138441456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Aging and the Law in Singapore and Japan: Adult Guardianship and Other Alternatives. 新加坡和日本的老龄化与法律：成人监护和其他选择。

IF 2 3区社会学

Journal of Aging & Social Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2023-09-13 DOI: 10.1080/08959420.2023.2255484

Hang Wu Tang, Yukio Sakurai, Yue-En Chong

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The Impact of Social Welfare on Hypertension Among Community-Dwelling Older Adult in India. 社会福利对印度社区居住老年人高血压的影响

IF 2 3区社会学

Journal of Aging & Social Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-11 DOI: 10.1080/08959420.2025.2461946

Sayani Das

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Mismatch Between Older Persons' Generative Concern and Internalized Generative Capacities: Leveraging on Generative Ambivalence to Enhance Intergenerational Cohesion. 老年人的代际关注与内化的代际能力之间的不匹配：利用代际矛盾增强代际凝聚力。

IF 2 3区社会学

Journal of Aging & Social Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2023-12-27 DOI: 10.1080/08959420.2023.2297606

Ad Maulod, June M L Lee, Si Yinn Lu, Grand H L Cheng, Angelique Chan, Leng Leng Thang, Rahul Malhotra

{"title":"Mismatch Between Older Persons' Generative Concern and Internalized Generative Capacities: Leveraging on Generative Ambivalence to Enhance Intergenerational Cohesion.","authors":"Ad Maulod, June M L Lee, Si Yinn Lu, Grand H L Cheng, Angelique Chan, Leng Leng Thang, Rahul Malhotra","doi":"10.1080/08959420.2023.2297606","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08959420.2023.2297606","url":null,"abstract":"Studies have shown how generativity, the concern for establishing and guiding the next generation and safeguarding its wellbeing, functions as an intergenerational conduit, bridging the developmental stages of older individuals with those younger. Yet, applications of generativity, as a means to bridge generational gaps within rapid social change, remain underexplored in the intergenerational field. Using Singapore as a case study, and through focus group discussions with 103 older persons, this paper examines how older Singaporeans express their generative concern and internalize their generative capacities across different social settings and rapid socioeconomic transformation. Mismatch between older Singaporeans' generative concern and capacity contributes to ambivalence - mixed feelings about guiding younger generations - which emerges out of older Singaporeans' struggles with cultural change prompted by economic progress, as well as concerns about their place and value in a technologically advanced global city-state. The concept of generative ambivalence can add value to policy perspectives on intergenerational cohesion, as it considers people's attempts to forge commonalities and mutual reciprocity despite differences (e.g. gender, age, race, skills), as well as highlights intergenerational complexities beyond superficial binaries. Policies aimed at bringing generations together must be intentional in creating opportunity structures that go beyond categorical differences, where multiple generations can thrive interdependently.","PeriodicalId":47121,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging & Social Policy","volume":" ","pages":"593-617"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139040731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Serious About Getting Old?: Variability of Individual Old Age Risk Management in Czechia. 真的要变老吗?:捷克个体老年风险管理的变异性。

IF 2 3区社会学

Journal of Aging & Social Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1080/08959420.2023.2284578

Pavol Frič, Michaela Šmídová, Martin Vávra, Petr Witz, Ludmiła Władyniak

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The Effect of Informal Caregiving on Depression: An Asymmetric Panel Fixed-Effects Analysis of In-Home and Out-Of-Home Caregivers Across Europe. 非正规护理对抑郁症的影响：对欧洲居家和非居家照顾者的非对称面板固定效应分析》（Asymmetric Panel Fixed-Effects Analysis of In-Home and Out-Ofome Caregivers Across Europe）。

IF 2.1 3区社会学

Journal of Aging & Social Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-05 DOI: 10.1080/08959420.2024.2348968

Andreas Nolan, Katri Aaltonen, Mirkka Danielsbacka

{"title":"The Effect of Informal Caregiving on Depression: An Asymmetric Panel Fixed-Effects Analysis of In-Home and Out-Of-Home Caregivers Across Europe.","authors":"Andreas Nolan, Katri Aaltonen, Mirkka Danielsbacka","doi":"10.1080/08959420.2024.2348968","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08959420.2024.2348968","url":null,"abstract":"Previous research has shown that providing intensive informal care can have a negative effect on an individual's mental health. However, few studies have been able to draw a precise comparison between the experiences of in-home and out-of-home caregivers. This study used data from 16 countries collected from 2011-2019 as part of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to conduct asymmetric panel fixed-effects models that examined within-person variation in depression scores after a respondent started providing daily or almost daily personal care either inside or outside of their home. The results substantiated previous findings that in-home caregivers experience more pronounced increases to their reported depressive symptoms after starting to provide daily personal care than do out-of-home caregivers. In addition, in-home caregivers in countries with greater governmental responsibility for long-term care provision (The Northern and Central Clusters) reported fewer increases to their depressive symptoms after starting to provide care than caregivers in countries where long-term care responsibility predominantly rests on families (The Southern and Eastern Cluster). Further, Northern Cluster countries most successfully shrank the pool of out-of-home care providers. Together, these findings underscore the context-specific nature of caregiver wellbeing.","PeriodicalId":47121,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging & Social Policy","volume":" ","pages":"705-723"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140872912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Private Long-Term Care Insurance Ownership in a Simple Choice Environment: Does Financial Literacy Matter? 简单选择环境下的私人长期护理保险所有权：财务知识重要吗？

IF 2 3区社会学

Journal of Aging & Social Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2023-04-19 DOI: 10.1080/08959420.2023.2203601

Joelle H Fong, Paulin Straughan

{"title":"Private Long-Term Care Insurance Ownership in a Simple Choice Environment: Does Financial Literacy Matter?","authors":"Joelle H Fong, Paulin Straughan","doi":"10.1080/08959420.2023.2203601","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08959420.2023.2203601","url":null,"abstract":"We present new evidence on financial literacy and private long-term care insurance (LTCI) ownership in Singapore, where policy intervention has resulted in a highly standardized marketplace with fixed benefit terms and premiums schedules. Using data from the 2018 Singapore Life Panel (N = 6,151), we document that almost half of the adults aged 50 and above in our large community-based sample have private LTCI coverage. We find that that financial literacy significantly increases LTCI demand, notwithstanding a simple choice environment where consumers cannot customize their policies. Furthermore, the importance of financial literacy was borne out through the knowledge aspect rather than financial skills/experience aspects; specifically, each financial knowledge question answered correctly increased the probability of LTCI ownership by 4.4% points on average. Tests for endogeneity between literacy and LTCI ownership reveal no endogeneity bias in the non-instrumented estimates. Overall, these findings underscore these importance of promoting financial education and literacy among consumers in LTCI markets, especially since financial knowledge is expected to play an even more salient role in markets with little or no product standardization.","PeriodicalId":47121,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging & Social Policy","volume":" ","pages":"432-450"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9751716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Aging Well? Exploring Self-Reported Quality of Life in the Older Austrian Population Based on Repeated Cross-Sectional Data. 老有所养？基于重复横截面数据，探索奥地利老年人口中自我描述的生活质量。

IF 2 3区社会学

Journal of Aging & Social Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-06 DOI: 10.1080/08959420.2024.2423102

Richard Felsinger, Susanne Mayer, Gerald Haidinger, Judit Simon

{"title":"Aging Well? Exploring Self-Reported Quality of Life in the Older Austrian Population Based on Repeated Cross-Sectional Data.","authors":"Richard Felsinger, Susanne Mayer, Gerald Haidinger, Judit Simon","doi":"10.1080/08959420.2024.2423102","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08959420.2024.2423102","url":null,"abstract":"Increase in life expectancy around the world puts aging societies with all their challenges on the Global Public Health agenda. In Austria, additional years of life gained are not spent in good health, as healthy life expectancy is far below the European average. Using repeated cross-sectional data from three waves of the Austrian Health Interview Survey (2006, 2014 and 2019), including a total of 10,056 participants aged 65 years and above, this study examined the change in self-reported quality-of-life (QoL) over time and explored associated factors. QoL, estimated by domain scores of the WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire, increased over time but decreased with age in all survey waves. Observed mean scores were significantly higher in males than in females in all QoL domains except the social domain but sex differences disappeared in most domains in the multivariable regression analyses. Instead, factors associated with significantly higher QoL scores included younger age, higher socioeconomic status, living in Western Austria and having no chronic conditions. Statistically significant observed sex differences in QoL in the older-aged Austrian population disappeared when adjusting for income and education. Strategies and measures to increase financial capabilities may have a significant impact on QoL and well-being in this age group.","PeriodicalId":47121,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging & Social Policy","volume":" ","pages":"654-670"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142591743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Provision of Home & Community Based Services to Veterans by Race, Rurality, and Neighborhood Deprivation Index. 按种族、乡村和邻里贫困指数分列的退伍军人家庭和社区服务提供情况。

IF 2.1 3区社会学

Journal of Aging & Social Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-06 DOI: 10.1080/08959420.2024.2402110

Tianwen Huan, Orna Intrator, Amy Jh Kind, Scotte Hartronft, Bruce Kinosian

{"title":"Provision of Home & Community Based Services to Veterans by Race, Rurality, and Neighborhood Deprivation Index.","authors":"Tianwen Huan, Orna Intrator, Amy Jh Kind, Scotte Hartronft, Bruce Kinosian","doi":"10.1080/08959420.2024.2402110","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08959420.2024.2402110","url":null,"abstract":"Home and community-based services (HCBS) enable frail patients to remain at home. We examined whether there were neighborhood-deprivation, racial, or rural disparities in HCBS utilization provided to Veterans by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) or Medicare by comparing the adjusted utilization rate of a historically disadvantaged group with the predicted utilization rate had it been treated as the historically dominant group. Among the 2.7 million VA patients over 66 years old in 2019, 11.0% were Black, 39.2% lived in rural settings, 15.3%/29.2%/30.9%/24.7% lived in least/mild/moderate/most-deprived neighborhoods. On average, 11.2% received VA or Medicare HCBS. Veterans residing in more deprived neighborhoods had 0.11-0.95% higher adjusted probability of receiving HCBS than expected had they resided in the least deprived neighborhoods. Veterans residing in rural areas had 0-0.7% lower HCBS rates than expected had they been treated like urban Veterans. Black Veterans were 0.8-1.2% more likely to receive HCBS than expected had they been treated like White Veterans. Findings indicate that VA resources were equitably employed, aligning with probable HCBS needs, suggesting that VA's substantial and long-standing investment in HCBS for care of frail Veterans could serve as a model for other payers and providers in the U.S.","PeriodicalId":47121,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging & Social Policy","volume":" ","pages":"914-931"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142378430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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