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Cost-effectiveness analysis of the digital fall preventive intervention Safe Step among community-dwelling older people aged 70 and older. 对 70 岁及以上居住在社区的老年人进行数字化跌倒预防干预 "安全步 "的成本效益分析。

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European Journal of Ageing Pub Date : 2024-10-26 DOI: 10.1007/s10433-024-00828-8

Saranda Bajraktari, Marlene Sandlund, Beatrice Pettersson, Erik Rosendahl, Magnus Zingmark

{"title":"Cost-effectiveness analysis of the digital fall preventive intervention Safe Step among community-dwelling older people aged 70 and older.","authors":"Saranda Bajraktari, Marlene Sandlund, Beatrice Pettersson, Erik Rosendahl, Magnus Zingmark","doi":"10.1007/s10433-024-00828-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-024-00828-8","url":null,"abstract":"Falls are the most common cause of injury in older people, with consequences for the individual and society. With an increasing population of older people, falls and related costs are expected to increase. It is crucial to identify scalable and cost-effective interventions and subsequently reduce fall-related costs. The aim was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the Safe Step digital fall preventive exercise intervention over a period of 12 years and, in addition, to evaluate the impact of increased recruitment cost and decreased intervention effect. The intervention was evaluated in an observational study in a municipality context targeting community-dwelling older people of age 70 + . A Markov model with five states was used to model the cost-effectiveness of the Safe Step intervention and evaluate quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) and fall-related costs from a societal perspective. By using data from a meta-analysis as basis for the estimated intervention effect, the Safe Step intervention was compared with a no-intervention alternative. The results showed that the Safe Step intervention dominated no intervention. In the sensitivity analysis with the most conservative estimate of intervention effect, the ICER was €7 616 per QALY gained. Hence, Safe Step showed to be a cost-saving fall preventive intervention in older people at risk of falling and potentially cost-effective even with a low estimated intervention effect. Future studies on efficacy of fall preventive digital interventions will contribute in precising effect estimates and enhance the validity of these cost-effectiveness results.","PeriodicalId":47766,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Ageing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11511800/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142510430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Internet self-efficacy moderates the association of information technology ability with successful ageing among older employees in three African samples. 在三个非洲样本中，互联网自我效能调节了信息技术能力与老年雇员成功老龄化之间的关系。

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European Journal of Ageing Pub Date : 2024-10-18 DOI: 10.1007/s10433-024-00827-9

Nestor Asiamah, Sylvester Hatsu, Frank Frimpong Opuni, Faith Muhonja, Confidence Chinwe Opara, Sarra Sghaier, Emelia Danquah

{"title":"Internet self-efficacy moderates the association of information technology ability with successful ageing among older employees in three African samples.","authors":"Nestor Asiamah, Sylvester Hatsu, Frank Frimpong Opuni, Faith Muhonja, Confidence Chinwe Opara, Sarra Sghaier, Emelia Danquah","doi":"10.1007/s10433-024-00827-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10433-024-00827-9","url":null,"abstract":"The literature suggests that two distinct competencies [i.e., information technology ability (ITA), and internet self-efficacy] are necessary for the effective use of information technologies for successful ageing, but no study has examined the association of these skills on successful ageing and its domains (i.e., illness avoidance, functioning, and engagement with life). This study investigated whether Internet Self-Efficacy (ISE) moderates the potential association of ITA with successful ageing. The study adopted a cross-sectional design based on the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) checklist and includes measures against confounding and common methods bias. The participants were 1186 older workers aged 50 years or older in three African countries (Kenya = 350; Nigeria = 260; Ghana = 576). The minimum sample size necessary was calculated, and data were analysed with hierarchical linear regression analysis. After controlling for the covariates, ITA and ISE had a positive association with successful ageing as well as illness avoidance, functioning, and engagement with life in the whole sample. ITA was also positively associated with successful ageing and its domains in Kenya and Ghana. The associations of ITA with successful ageing and its domains were positively moderated by ISE in the whole sample and within each of the three samples. Higher ITA can be associated with successful ageing among working older adults, and ITA positively influences successful ageing at different levels of ISE. Older adults with high ITA are more likely to avoid illness at a higher ISE.","PeriodicalId":47766,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Ageing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11489396/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142485870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Does social capital enhance political participation in older adults? Multi-level evidence from the European Quality of Life Survey. 社会资本会提高老年人的政治参与度吗？来自欧洲生活质量调查的多层次证据。

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European Journal of Ageing Pub Date : 2024-10-14 DOI: 10.1007/s10433-024-00825-x

Fredrica Nyqvist, Rodrigo Serrat, Mikael Nygård, Marina Näsman

{"title":"Does social capital enhance political participation in older adults? Multi-level evidence from the European Quality of Life Survey.","authors":"Fredrica Nyqvist, Rodrigo Serrat, Mikael Nygård, Marina Näsman","doi":"10.1007/s10433-024-00825-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-024-00825-x","url":null,"abstract":"This study explored the role of social capital for non-institutionalised and institutionalised political participation among older adults compared to younger age groups using European Quality of Life Survey data (EQLS) from 2016 and 33 countries (n = 36,908). Multilevel logistic regression analysis was employed to assess the association between individual- and country-level social capital and political participation. Findings revealed that, at the individual level, active associational engagement was positively related to both forms of political participation, while social trust and political trust were linked only to non-institutionalised participation-higher social trust and lower political trust were associated with a greater likelihood of participation. Country-level associational engagement was related to non-institutionalised political participation and country-level political trust with institutionalised participation. For older adults, active associational engagement had stronger individual and contextual effects on non-institutionalised political participation. These results enrich our understanding of political engagement in later life and highlight the unexplored potential for civic involvement among older adults.","PeriodicalId":47766,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Ageing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11473466/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142477773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Do middle-aged and older people underreport loneliness? experimental evidence from the Netherlands. 荷兰的实验证据：中老年人是否少报了孤独感？

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European Journal of Ageing Pub Date : 2024-10-05 DOI: 10.1007/s10433-024-00826-w

Thijs van den Broek, Jack Lam, Cecilia Potente

{"title":"Do middle-aged and older people underreport loneliness? experimental evidence from the Netherlands.","authors":"Thijs van den Broek, Jack Lam, Cecilia Potente","doi":"10.1007/s10433-024-00826-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10433-024-00826-w","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the growing acknowledgment of the importance of loneliness among older individuals, questionnaire length constraints may hinder the inclusion of common multi-item loneliness scales in surveys. Direct, single-item loneliness measures are a practical alternative, but scholars have expressed concerns that such measures may lead to underreporting. Our aim was to test whether such reservations are justified. We conducted a preregistered list experiment among 2,553 people aged 50 + who participated in the Dutch Longitudinal Internet studies for the Social Sciences (LISS) panel. The list experiment method has been developed to unobtrusively gather sensitive information. We compared the list experiment estimate of the prevalence of frequent loneliness with the corresponding direct question estimate to assess downward bias in the latter. Next to pooled models, we estimated models stratified by gender to assess whether loneliness underreporting differed between women and men. Relying on the direct question, we estimated that 5.9% of respondents frequently felt lonely. Our list experiment indicated that the prevalence of frequent loneliness was 13.1%. Although substantial in magnitude, the difference between both estimates was only marginally significant (Δb: 0.072, 95% CI: - 0.003;0.148, p = .06). No evidence of gender differences was found. Although we cannot be conclusive that loneliness estimates are biased downward when a direct question is used, our results call for caution with direct, single-item measures of loneliness if researchers want to avoid underreporting. Replications are needed to gain more precise insights into the extent to which direct, single-item loneliness measures are prone to downward reporting bias.","PeriodicalId":47766,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Ageing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11456021/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142378434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The lifestyle of new middle-aged and older adults in Taiwan described by wearable device: age and gender differences. 用可穿戴设备描述台湾新中老年人的生活方式：年龄与性别差异。

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European Journal of Ageing Pub Date : 2024-09-28 DOI: 10.1007/s10433-024-00824-y

Chih-Liang Wang, Cheng-Xue Li, Sheng-Fu Liang

{"title":"The lifestyle of new middle-aged and older adults in Taiwan described by wearable device: age and gender differences.","authors":"Chih-Liang Wang, Cheng-Xue Li, Sheng-Fu Liang","doi":"10.1007/s10433-024-00824-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-024-00824-y","url":null,"abstract":"Studies of lifestyle through comprehensive objective and subjective measurements of health outcomes are lacking. An examination of lifestyle factors in middle-aged and older adults in terms of age, gender, and the interaction effect of age and gender from physiological and psychological perspectives are imperative. Recent advances in technology such as actigraphy have facilitated objective measurements. This exploratory study contributes to research on age and gender interactions on circadian rhythm, physical activity, sleep, and psychological variables by employing wrist accelerometers to measure behavioral circadian rhythm objectively and by using questionnaires to assess psychological status subjectively. The data were drawn from 218 participants aged 50 and older from the \"Middle-aged and older adults Chinese Health and Actigraphy in Taiwan (MOCHA-T)\". The results: (1) older adult group is associated with declined physical activity (MVPA time 79.9 min VS. 107.9 min, p = .002), worse sleep efficiency (78.1% VS. 81.9%, p = .008), and earlier lifestyle (Acrophase 14.19 h VS. 14.69 h, p = .01) comparing to middle-aged group. (2) Women have a more regular lifestyle (Interdaily stability 0.6 VS. 051, p < 0.001), higher physical activity (MVPA time 105.7 min VS. 79.3 min, p = .004), and better sleep efficiency (81.6% VS. 77.8%, p = .011) than men. (3) Significant age-by-gender interactions existed in life satisfaction (p = .025), relative amplitude (p = .016), and total wake time (p = .038). Furthermore, aging was associated with significant increases in life satisfaction among men as well as significant decreases in relative amplitude and reductions in the total wake time among women. In conclusion, aging exerted differential effects on life satisfaction in men as well as relative amplitude and the total wake time in women. This result highlights disparities in lifestyle arising from interconnected social and biological challenges.","PeriodicalId":47766,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Ageing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11438744/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142337021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Disability during the last ten years of life: evidence from a register-based study in Austria. 生命最后十年的残疾：来自奥地利登记研究的证据。

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European Journal of Ageing Pub Date : 2024-09-28 DOI: 10.1007/s10433-024-00823-z

Erwin Stolz, Anna Schultz, Julia Zuschnegg, Franziska Großschädl, Thomas E Dorner, Regina Roller-Wirnsberger, Wolfgang Freidl

{"title":"Disability during the last ten years of life: evidence from a register-based study in Austria.","authors":"Erwin Stolz, Anna Schultz, Julia Zuschnegg, Franziska Großschädl, Thomas E Dorner, Regina Roller-Wirnsberger, Wolfgang Freidl","doi":"10.1007/s10433-024-00823-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-024-00823-z","url":null,"abstract":"Analyses of late-life disability based on survey data of the oldest old often suffer from non-representative samples due to selective participation and attrition. Here, we use register data on the Austrian long-term care allowance (ALTCA) as a proxy for late-life disability. In this retrospective mortality follow-back study, we analyze receipt of ALTCA, a universal cash benefit based on physician-assessed disability in activities of daily living during the last 10 years of life, among all decedents aged 65 years and over from 2020 in Austria (n = 76,781) and its association with sex, age at death, and underlying cause of death. We find that on average, ALTCA was received for 3.5 and 5.3 years in men and women. At 10 years before death, 10% of men and 25% of women received ALTCA, which increased to 56% and 77% at one year before death. Both the probability and duration of ALTCA increased with age at death and varied by cause of death: Those who died from cancer, myocardial infarction, and external causes of death were less likely to receive ALTCA and for shorter durations, while those who died from dementia, Parkinson's disease, chronic heart disease, or chronic lung disease were more likely to receive it and longer so. Overall, our register-based estimates of the prevalence of late-life disability were higher than previous survey-based estimates. Policy-makers should be aware that costs of long-term care will rise as life expectancy rises and deaths from dementia and chronic heart disease will likely increase in the rapidly aging European societies.","PeriodicalId":47766,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Ageing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11438747/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142337020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The use of individual and collective selection, optimisation and compensation (SOC) strategies and their association with work ability among senior workers. 高级工个人和集体选择、优化和补偿（SOC）策略的使用及其与工作能力的关系。

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European Journal of Ageing Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1007/s10433-024-00821-1

Annette Meng, E Sundstrup, Lars Louis Andersen

{"title":"The use of individual and collective selection, optimisation and compensation (SOC) strategies and their association with work ability among senior workers.","authors":"Annette Meng, E Sundstrup, Lars Louis Andersen","doi":"10.1007/s10433-024-00821-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-024-00821-1","url":null,"abstract":"Background Selection, optimisation, and compensation (SOC) can be important strategies for maintaining work ability as we age. This study aimed to explore differences in self-reported individual and collective use of SOC strategies across job functions, as well as their association with self-rated work ability.Methods: In the third wave of the SeniorWorkingLife study, 10,798 workers aged 50 + , across the job function categories \"Office work\", \"work with people\", and \"work in the field of production\", replied to questions about collective and individual SOC strategies and work ability. Using multiple regression, we modelled associations between SOC and work ability.Results: Associations between SOC and work ability were generally weaker among participants working in the field of production. Both individual and collective use of selection had much weaker associations with work ability in the job functions \"office work\" and \"working with people\". In the job function \"working in the field of production\", only collective compensation was positively associated with work ability while individual selection was significantly but negatively associated with work ability.Conclusions: The use of SOC may be particularly beneficial for older employees working with people. Optimisation and compensation may be the most important SOC strategies for maintaining the work ability of older employees working with people and doing office work. For older employees working in the field of production, collective optimisation may support the maintenance of work ability while reduced work ability may be associated with the use of individual selection as a \"coping strategy\".","PeriodicalId":47766,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Ageing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11411037/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142298711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Soft skills and their relationship with life satisfaction and cognitive reserve in adulthood and older age. 软技能及其与成年期和老年期生活满意度和认知储备的关系。

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European Journal of Ageing Pub Date : 2024-09-09 DOI: 10.1007/s10433-024-00820-2

Tommaso Feraco, Nicole Casali, Elena Carbone, Chiara Meneghetti, Erika Borella, Barbara Carretti, Veronica Muffato

{"title":"Soft skills and their relationship with life satisfaction and cognitive reserve in adulthood and older age.","authors":"Tommaso Feraco, Nicole Casali, Elena Carbone, Chiara Meneghetti, Erika Borella, Barbara Carretti, Veronica Muffato","doi":"10.1007/s10433-024-00820-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-024-00820-2","url":null,"abstract":"Soft skills are key factors for success in multiple contexts of daily life, as well as for life satisfaction, but little is known about their role in late adulthood and older age. In this study, we aimed to investigate the relationships of soft skills, as defined by the World Economic Forum, with two indicators of successful/healthy aging: life satisfaction and cognitive reserve. A sample of 435 adults aged 50 and over completed self-reported measures of soft skills, life satisfaction, and cognitive reserve. As control, fluid (reasoning) and crystalized (vocabulary) intelligence were assessed too, along with socio-demographic characteristics. A series of regression analyses showed that soft skills were positively related to both life satisfaction and, to a lower extent, cognitive reserve, above and beyond gender, age, and both fluid and crystallized intelligence. Interestingly, these associations were independent from participants' age. Overall, these results highlight the importance of considering soft skills also over the middle-late adult life course, due to the potential role of these individual qualities in supporting an individual's well-being and an active and engaged lifestyle, with implications for the promotion of a healthy aging.","PeriodicalId":47766,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Ageing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11383892/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142298710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Determinants of trajectories of informal caregiving in later life: evidence from England. 晚年非正式护理轨迹的决定因素：来自英格兰的证据。

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European Journal of Ageing Pub Date : 2024-08-31 DOI: 10.1007/s10433-024-00818-w

Giorgio Di Gessa, Christian Deindl

{"title":"Determinants of trajectories of informal caregiving in later life: evidence from England.","authors":"Giorgio Di Gessa, Christian Deindl","doi":"10.1007/s10433-024-00818-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10433-024-00818-w","url":null,"abstract":"Although the long-term consequences of informal care provision have been well investigated, few studies have examined the trajectories of informal care provision among older people and the socioeconomic, demographic, health, and family characteristics associated with them. We use data from four waves of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, with 6561 respondents followed for 6 years (2012/3-2018/9). We used group-based trajectory modelling to group people's provision of care over time into a finite number of distinct trajectories of caregiving. Using multinomial logistic regressions, we then investigated the characteristics associated with these trajectories. Four distinct trajectories of caregiving were identified: \"stable intensive\", \"increasing intensive\", \"decreasing\", and \"stable no care\". Results suggest that although there are socioeconomic, demographic, and health differences across the trajectories of caregiving (with younger women in good health and poorer socioeconomic status more likely to care intensively throughout), family characteristics are their main drivers. Respondents who live alone, with no children, and no parents alive are more likely to never provide care, whereas those with older parents and who live with adults in poor health are more likely to provide stable intensive care. Also, changes in family characteristics (e.g. death of parents, widowhood, or deterioration of the partner's health) are associated with trajectories representing increases or decreases in caregiving over time. Overall, trajectories of informal caregiving undertaken by older people are varied and these patterns are mostly associated with both the availability and health of family members, suggesting that need factors represent the most immediate reason for caregiving commitments.","PeriodicalId":47766,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Ageing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11365911/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142113480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Look on the bright side: the relation between family values, positive aspects of care and caregiver burden. 往好的方面看：家庭价值观、护理的积极方面与护理负担之间的关系。

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European Journal of Ageing Pub Date : 2024-08-30 DOI: 10.1007/s10433-024-00819-9

Larissa Zwar, Hans-Helmut König, André Hajek

{"title":"Look on the bright side: the relation between family values, positive aspects of care and caregiver burden.","authors":"Larissa Zwar, Hans-Helmut König, André Hajek","doi":"10.1007/s10433-024-00819-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-024-00819-9","url":null,"abstract":"Family-centered values are important for caregiving. However, findings on their association with burden are inconsistent. We aim to analyze whether positive aspects of caregiving are mediating the effect of familism on burden among informal caregivers of older adults in Germany. Participants (n = 277) were drawn from the Attitudes Toward Informal Caregivers (ATTIC) project and include informal long-term caregivers of older relatives (aged ≥ 60) quota-sampled from Germany (December 2023). Mediation analyses (linear OLS regression) with robust standard errors were conducted with the classic and the counterfactual causal mediation framework. The classic approach indicated a significant positive direct effect of familism on burden, a significant negative direct effect of PAC on burden and a significant negative indirect effect of familism via PAC on burden; the total effect was not significant. The causal mediation approach supports this; the interaction between familism and PAC was not significant. Thus, sociocultural family-centered values seemed to worsen burden but also to reduce it through positive experiences of caregiving, which did not depend on the strength of familism values. The findings advance our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the stress appraisal of the informal care situation and emphasize the role of positive experiences of care.","PeriodicalId":47766,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Ageing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11364734/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142113481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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