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Seeing several sides of the story: Unpacking an ethical dilemma in home-based care 看到故事的多个侧面：解读家庭护理中的道德难题

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Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2025-04-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101323

Cecilie Knagenhjelm Hertzberg, Morten Magelssen, Anne Kari Tolo Heggestad

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“We try to help each other out”: Older immigrants' perceptions of their support resources

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Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2025-04-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101327

Pnina Dolberg , Sagit Lev

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The “old aunties (lǎo ā yí)” are not old: Chinese young women's attitudes toward aging and old age through using the generalized kinship term on social media

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Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101325

Juanjuan Ren , Mingxin Yao

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Older adults have valuable memories to share. Why don't we listen?

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Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2025-03-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101322

Magdalen A. Balz , Kathrin Boerner

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Stories of home: Aging, intergenerational relations and dementia in Julia Martin's The Blackridge House: A memoir (2019)

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Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101321

Óscar Ortega Montero

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Everything lost? On the interaction of queerness and dementia in Axel Ranisch's Dicke Mädchen (2011)

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Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101309

Stefan Horlacher, Franziska Röber

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“Families are a resource, not the enemy”: Canadian family caregivers' experiences of COVID-19 pandemic visitor restrictions

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Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101311

Kirstian Gibson , Heather Alford , Heather Ward , Paulette V. Hunter

{"title":"“Families are a resource, not the enemy”: Canadian family caregivers' experiences of COVID-19 pandemic visitor restrictions","authors":"Kirstian Gibson , Heather Alford , Heather Ward , Paulette V. Hunter","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101311","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101311","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Canadian long-term care homes implemented strict visitor restrictions at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to control the spread of the virus among residents. These restrictions extended to family caregivers, a significant provider of in-person physical and social care, preventing them from entering long-term care homes. The purpose of the current study was to explore the experiences and observations of family caregivers during the prolonged visitor restrictions. Fifteen semi-structured, one-on-one interviews were conducted with family caregivers of persons living in long-term care and analysed using a codebook thematic approach. Four themes were identified: a) pandemic policies dismissed family relationships; b) prolonged separation traumatised families; c) family caregivers were resourceful in fulfilling their roles; and d) family caregivers are calling for collaborative change. Our findings reflect how long-term care policies and standards that lacked a family-centred lens resulted in barriers to care and led to serious concerns about the quality of life of residents and serious distress among family caregivers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"72 ","pages":"Article 101311"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143098675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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Building a social support network for informal caregivers of older adults: A case study of Carer Cafés in Hong Kong

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Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101310

Ka-yi Fung , Wing-sun Chan

{"title":"Building a social support network for informal caregivers of older adults: A case study of Carer Cafés in Hong Kong","authors":"Ka-yi Fung , Wing-sun Chan","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101310","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101310","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study addresses the social care issue of supporting older adults' informal caregivers at the community level. It assesses how community café initiatives, particularly the Carer Café project by the Hong Kong Federation of Women's Centres (HKFWC), develop support networks and enable access to embedded social capital. Utilizing the organizational brokerage model, this research analyzes the network characteristics formed around informal caregivers within the café. This qualitative study employs individual in-depth interviews, focus groups, and observations to collect data. We interviewed 26 informants and observed the operation of five Carer Cafés. Key findings indicate that support networks are deeply integrated with the organization's norms, influencing social interactions in terms of frequency, duration, outward focus, and collaboration. Caregivers benefit from various forms of social capital derived from the Carer Café's networks, which provide enduring support beyond the café setting. While the support networks have extended to the community, they remain embedded in the organization. This embeddedness helps staff take note of caregivers' situations and facilitates the flow of assistance from organizations to caregivers. The study highlights the importance of organizational embeddedness in shaping support networks, offering insights for improving caregiver services and informing policy development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"72 ","pages":"Article 101310"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143098673","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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On personhood in residential and long-term care centres

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Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2025.101308

Eric Gagnon , Romane Marcotte

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Priests aging well: The role of gerotranscendence and its relationships with perceived health status, and life satisfaction among Catholic priests

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Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101301

Jordan Orbe , Michiko Iwasaki , Anthony Isacco , Carolyn McNamara Barry , Molly Quigley , John Dimoff

{"title":"Priests aging well: The role of gerotranscendence and its relationships with perceived health status, and life satisfaction among Catholic priests","authors":"Jordan Orbe , Michiko Iwasaki , Anthony Isacco , Carolyn McNamara Barry , Molly Quigley , John Dimoff","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101301","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101301","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Aging in the priesthood presents unique challenges in America. Due to the declining number of priests serving the growing U.S. Catholic population, many older priests delay retirement and continue to work while dealing with various physical, mental, and emotional challenges associated with aging. The present study examined predictors of life satisfaction in aging priests, using a combination of established predictors (age, spiritual transcendence, overall health) and three novel predictors corresponding to the three domains of gerotranscendence (cosmic, coherence, solitude) set out by Tornstam (1989, 2005). Survey data collected from 201 ordained Roman Catholic senior priests (between ages 50–93) revealed high levels of life satisfaction and satisfaction that was positively correlated with age, spiritual transcendence, and self-rated health. In addition, the combination of gerotranscendence predictors explained a statistically significant amount of the variance in life satisfaction, even when controlling for age, spiritual transcendence, and overall health. The coherence domain of gerotranscendence outperformed all other predictors in our model, suggesting that this may be an especially salient predictor of life satisfaction in aging priests. The present study lends support to the application of gerotranscendence when examining the wellbeing of older priests. Interventions aimed at fostering gerotranscendence appear crucial for enhancing priests' life satisfaction throughout their lives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"72 ","pages":"Article 101301"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143098719","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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