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The role of objects in negotiations in convoys of care: Addressing fundamental concerns of informal caregivers 物品在护理车队谈判中的作用：解决非正规护理人员的基本关切

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Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101283

Leonoor Gräler, Martijn Felder, Hester van de Bovenkamp

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Having to ‘go beyond’: Staff perspectives on activity programs for older people living in nursing homes 必须 "超越"：工作人员对养老院老年人活动计划的看法

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Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101279

Linda McAuliffe, Deirdre Fetherstonhaugh, Jo-Anne Rayner, Samantha Clune

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Towards a gerontology of everything: A more-than-human perspective 迈向万物老年学：超越人类的视角

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Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101278

Deborah Lupton

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Age enterprising: “Old” age on the make in Ghana 老有所为：加纳的 "老年 "创业

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Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101276

Alexandra Crampton , Cati Coe

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Representations of professional nursing homes in the context of climate-related heatwaves: An exploratory study of Swedish media 与气候相关的热浪背景下专业养老院的表现形式：对瑞典媒体的探索性研究

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Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101277

Bo Nilsson, Jenny Lönnroth

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Social death of older adults residing in nursing homes in Finland 芬兰养老院老年人的社会死亡问题

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101275

Jenny Paananen , Jenni Kulmala , Jari Pirhonen

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Climate change and population aging: The role of older adults in climate change mitigation 气候变化与人口老龄化：老年人在减缓气候变化中的作用

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Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101274

Daniel Katey , Senyo Zanu

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Empathy mitigates the relationship between ageism and subjective age in late life 移情能缓解年龄歧视与晚年主观年龄之间的关系

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Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101273

Assaf Suberry , Ehud Bodner

{"title":"Empathy mitigates the relationship between ageism and subjective age in late life","authors":"Assaf Suberry , Ehud Bodner","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101273","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101273","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study corresponds with a dispute in gerontology literature about whether a younger subjective age acts as a psychological defense for older adults by perceiving themselves as younger in order to dissociate from their age-group or as a marker of good physical health. This cross-sectional study presents a preliminary step to clarify this dispute. We examined the role of emotional empathy (measured by the Multifaceted Empathy Test) as a moderator in the ageism (measured implicitly by the Brief Implicit Association Test) and subjective age (measured on Likert scale) association on a convenience sample of 203 community-dwelling older adults (aged 65–90, <em>M =</em> 74.54, <em>SD =</em> 6.76). It was hypothesized that implicit ageism would be associated with younger subjective age and that this association would be only evident among older adults with lower emotional empathy. Implicit ageism was not associated with younger subjective age. As expected, hierarchical linear regression showed that the connection between higher implicit ageism and a younger subjective age remains significant (<em>p</em> = 0.012) only among participants with lower emotional empathy (∆<em>R</em><sup>2</sup> = 0.022, <em>β = 0</em>.156). Higher emotional empathy was associated with younger subjective age. For older adults who are equipped with the ability to feel others' emotions, the defensive dissociation between self and other perceptions of aging might be unnecessary. Theoretical and methodological implications are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 101273"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142422096","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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“You messed up with the wrong generation”: Intergenerational relations from the perspective of Israeli older protesters "你惹错了一代人"：从以色列老年抗议者的角度看代际关系

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Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2024-09-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101264

Liat Ayalon, Sarit Okun

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Community care and social participation: An ethnography of clubs for older people in Peñalolén (Chile) during and after the pandemic 社区关怀和社会参与：大流行期间和之后佩尼亚洛伦（智利）老年人俱乐部的人种学研究

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Journal of Aging Studies Pub Date : 2024-09-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101271

Herminia Gonzálvez-Torralbo, Ariany Silva-Villar

{"title":"Community care and social participation: An ethnography of clubs for older people in Peñalolén (Chile) during and after the pandemic","authors":"Herminia Gonzálvez-Torralbo, Ariany Silva-Villar","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101271","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101271","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article presents a case study on the community care practices carried out by older people who participated in the clubs of the Peñalolén district (Metropolitan Region of Chile). We focus on the experiences of care expressed in these collective social spaces during the pandemic triggered by Covid-19 and in the subsequent months when older people began to meet up again. We aim to describe the experiences and practices of care expressed in these spaces, paying attention to those carried out by the older people at a time when personal freedom was highly restricted. For this purpose, we conducted 32 biographical interviews between 2021 and 2022 in the framework of ethnographic research. In addition, we carried out systematic observations in the homes and clubs of older people in the district of Peñalolén. The analysis of this material shows that social support networks and community care practices among those who participate in the clubs make up social and cultural capital that is activated in times of crisis. Without this capital, coping with these periods of great difficulties would be much more challenging.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 101271"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142319552","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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