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{"title":"Age differences in emotional reactions to ageist memes and changes in age of one's Best Self","authors":"Patricia Kahlbaugh ,&nbsp;Jacklyn Ramos-Arvelo ,&nbsp;Madison Brenning ,&nbsp;Loreen Huffman","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101207","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Memes on social media can carry ageist messages and can elicit reactions that are both emotional and self-evaluative. The present study investigates age-related differences in nine discrete emotions and in the evaluation of when individuals have been or will be their best selves. Participants (<em>n</em> = 360) representing young (<em>m</em> = 26 years), middle-aged (<em>m</em> = 39 years) and older adults (<em>m</em> = 63 years) were randomly assigned to view either non-ageist (animals) or ageist (e.g., incompetent older people) memes. After viewing memes, we assessed nine emotional reactions (i.e., fear, anger, sadness, happiness, anxiety, discomfort, disgust, surprise, enjoyment) and Best Self evaluations. Younger and middle-aged people reported more intense emotional reactions to memes than older people, with the exception that older people reported more discomfort and disgust in response to ageist versus non-ageist memes. Younger adults were less surprised by ageist memes (vs. non-ageist) and for all age groups ageist memes (vs. non-ageist) elicited less happiness and enjoyment and were less likely to be shared. With respect to evaluations of one's Best Self, older individuals were more likely to report being their best selves in the past, while after viewing ageist memes, younger individuals were more likely to report being their best selves in the future. Emotions of disgust and discomfort were related to identifying one's Best Self as further in the past. The current study adds to the literature on the impact of ageism by examining age-related differences in the emotions and self-evaluations experienced when confronted with memes on social media.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"68 ","pages":"Article 101207"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890406524000021/pdfft?md5=906d763cfd5c2a845a1a4059a942dded&pid=1-s2.0-S0890406524000021-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139406146","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}

{"title":"Counter-narratives of active aging: Disability, trauma, and joy in the age-friendly city","authors":"Karine Côté-Boucher ,&nbsp;Tamara Daly ,&nbsp;Sally Chivers ,&nbsp;Susan Braedley ,&nbsp;Sean Hillier","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101205","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Dominant narratives about late life promote active aging, while anti-aging ones mobilize tropes of decline and irrelevance. In contrast, counter-narratives raise questions that spark new conversations about the promising practices that could foster more age-friendly cities. In this article, we describe our feminist and ethnographic approach to interviews and digital storytelling that aim to amplify the voices of marginalized older adults living with disability, violence, and colonialism, and share findings from this endeavor. We discuss the interviews with, and stories shared, by two disabled older adults - an Indigenous woman and a white paraplegic man - and the aging futures their counter-stories suggest. These stories reveal these participants' ongoing struggles to create meaning in their lives, and how their relationships to the physical, cultural, and social environment of the city, including its supports and services, can both support and hinder this becoming.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"68 ","pages":"Article 101205"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890406523001068/pdfft?md5=33380d3f08fb364d557b4d6c6531cdd1&pid=1-s2.0-S0890406523001068-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139111508","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}

{"title":"Material gerontology – Central thematic intersections and blurring boundaries","authors":"Vera Gallistl ,&nbsp;Julia Hahmann ,&nbsp;Grit Höppner ,&nbsp;Anna Wanka","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101203","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101203","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"68 ","pages":"Article 101203"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890406523001044/pdfft?md5=240c0f101c74cfcae53a0726c9a2551c&pid=1-s2.0-S0890406523001044-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139028439","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}

{"title":"Healthy aging, self-care, and choice in India: Class-based engagements with globally circulating ideologies","authors":"Sarah Lamb ,&nbsp;Nilanjana Goswami","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101194","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Euro-American notions of successful and healthy aging are taking root globally, shaped and inflected by local cultural and political contexts. India is one place where globally inflected discourses of healthy, active, and successful aging are on the rise. However, notions about just what constitutes healthy aging and how to achieve such a goal do not play out the same way across the globe. This article explores how older Indians of diverse social classes are thinking about their own lives in relation to broader discourses of healthy aging circulating within India and abroad. Analyses of in-depth interviews with 25 individuals (11 women and 14 men, ages 57 to 81, across a range of social classes) reveal that while many among the urban elite are enjoying participating in a globally informed healthy-aging culture, such trends are not at all widespread among the non-elite. Moreover, Indians across social classes tend to interpret their own “healthy aging” goals in ways at odds with their perceptions of Western paradigms of healthy and successful aging, sometimes incorporating critiques of the West into their own reflections about health and well-being in later life. By examining how healthy-successful aging ideologies play out across divergent national-cultural and social-class contexts, our aim is to challenge universalizing models and heighten understanding of social inequalities while opening up a wider set of possibilities for imagining what it is to live meaningfully in later life.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"68 ","pages":"Article 101194"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890406523000956/pdfft?md5=170fbc833d5768016cb44eda8adfcaa6&pid=1-s2.0-S0890406523000956-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138439152","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}

{"title":"Moving in together in later life: Making spaces into places as a joint endeavor","authors":"Anna Wanka ,&nbsp;Steven M. Schmidt ,&nbsp;Susanne Iwarsson ,&nbsp;Frank Oswald ,&nbsp;Karla Wazinski ,&nbsp;Björn Slaug ,&nbsp;Maya Kylén","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101191","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background and objectives</h3><p>We focus on the linkages between relocation, new forms of partner cohabitation, and retirement. What are the patterns and trajectories of moving in with a partner in retirement? How do older adults experience different transitions, place attachment, and placemaking when they move in with a partner?</p></div><div><h3>Research design and methods</h3><p>In this qualitative study, 50 persons between 60 and 75 years old were interviewed in Sweden and Germany. For this paper, we focused on nine participants who experienced a relocation with a partner in retirement. Interviews were transcribed and analyzed using a strategy derived from social constructivist Grounded Theory and thematic analysis.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Research participants described experiences of several relocations and cohabitation trajectories. In particular, we identified two patterns of relocating with a partner in retirement: moving into a new place with a partner and moving into a partner's pre-existing home, the latter proving more challenging for forming place attachment and for the couple relationship. Relocation experiences appeared to form a joint process in which relationships and retirement were renegotiated.</p></div><div><h3>Discussion and implications</h3><p>Using cross-cultural data, this novel study shows an unexpected diversity in housing and cohabitation trajectories among older adults. More research is needed to understand what “aging in the right place” with “the right person” really means and the role of life course trajectories and couple negotiations in such processes. Future research should focus on what comes before and after relocation rather than solely studying the decision-making process that leads up to a move.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"68 ","pages":"Article 101191"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890406523000920/pdfft?md5=bb4bd0e4cb72c37c08d4570bcca97696&pid=1-s2.0-S0890406523000920-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138327988","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}

{"title":"“Sexual activity for me is something else. It's the same as always: Sex aside and our love for each other.” Changes in sexual activity in dementia from the view of spouse-carers'","authors":"Marcela Moreira Lima Nogueira ,&nbsp;Jose Pedro Simões Neto ,&nbsp;Aud Johannessen ,&nbsp;Marcia Cristina Nascimento Dourado","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101193","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The study aimed to explore the impact of Alzheimer's disease (AD) on spouse-carer's lives and the ways it affects their marital relationship and sexual activity. Data were obtained from qualitative interviews<span> conducted with 11 spouse-carers of people with AD. Using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), three themes emerged: psychological and emotional impact, social impact, and sexual impact. Some spouse-carers reported stress, poor emotional well-being, frustration, doubts about how to deal with the situation, sadness, loneliness, perception of losing connection with the partner, and feelings of companionship disappearing. Meanwhile, other spouse-carers reported closer relations and greater affection for their care-recipients after the diagnosis. Changes in sexual activity were attributed to aging and/or the effects of the illness. Gender influenced the perception of changes in the marital relationship but not in sexual activity. Participants reported conflicting perspectives towards the importance of sexual activity in the marital relationship and the replacement of sexual intercourse with other modes of expressing affection. We believe that understanding the specificities of marital relationships of couples in whom one spouse was diagnosed with AD would be helpful for developing coping strategies for persons living with dementia and their spouses.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"67 ","pages":"Article 101193"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136697236","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}

{"title":"Personal benefits of older adults engaging in a participatory action research (PAR) project","authors":"Shkumbin Gashi ,&nbsp;Heidi Kaspar ,&nbsp;Martin Grosse Holtforth","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101192","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Participatory action research (PAR) is the process of conducting research with people rather than for them and is perceived as an empowering activity for older adults who participate in it. However, there is little evidence that outlines and explains the reasons why older adults engage in PAR. Thus, the aim of this study was to better understand the personal benefits for older adults participating in PAR. We based our study on the experiences of four older adults who volunteered for CareComLabs, a Swiss-based PAR project, for more than two years. A constructivist grounded theory design was used to explore the benefits of participating in CareComLabs by conducting in-depth, semi-structured interviews. The analysis yielded four categories of personal benefits of participating in CareComLabs: (a) enriching relationships; (b) broadening horizons for older age; (c) keeping in touch with one's profession; and (d) interacting in a nurturing community. Our findings may have implications for policies and frameworks focused on the identification of the potential of participatory action research as a community resource.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"67 ","pages":"Article 101192"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890406523000932/pdfft?md5=ba7b9acf2b3219f01b2941847e1d2ac3&pid=1-s2.0-S0890406523000932-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92014577","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}

{"title":"“We never lived together either”: Couples' housing (re-) arrangements in later life","authors":"Julia Piel,&nbsp;Bernt-Peter Robra","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101190","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Social gerontology mainly addresses couples' housing arrangements in later life by focusing on partner's care, related adaptations in place, and changing role expectations within the couple relationship. Thereby, the resulting image does not fully represent today's diversity of couples' housing arrangements.</p><p>This article considers housing arrangement and relationship orientation of older couples as entangled in social practice, providing a broader perspective on the diversity and dynamics of couples living arrangements in later life.</p><p>In a qualitative study, we conducted joint in-depth interviews with ten couples from Germany aged 58 to 88 years. Couples talked about their shared biography and living together today. Data were merged with fieldnotes on housing constellations and analyzed following the documentary method.</p><p>Couples co-constitute living together by using space in different ways. We found three relationship orientations of couples corresponding to practices of couples' housing arrangements: balancing physical and emotional presence by negotiating shared space, exploring presence by having a third common place, and reducing presence by separate housing. These orientation types which are linked with spatial (re-) arrangements reveal positioning to housing preferences in past relationships and point to societal concepts of coupledom as regards housing in later life. Space gives options for both being apart from and feeling close to the partner, partially at the same time.</p><p>Diversity and dynamics of housing arrangements correspond to diversified and altering relationship orientations in later life. Considering couples' housing arrangements in later life as mutually constitutive broadens the options to examine the meaning of space in aging together. Moreover, this perspective can be combined with a critical approach towards stereotypical (hetero-) normative biases in research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"67 ","pages":"Article 101190"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890406523000919/pdfft?md5=0ad2a1cce291744c116993fd867ee330&pid=1-s2.0-S0890406523000919-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91959472","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}

{"title":"“What's your accent, where are you from?”: Language and belonging among older immigrants","authors":"Stephanie Zemba ,&nbsp;Meeta Mehrotra","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101189","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Researchers have identified immigration and marginalization as two processes that impact older immigrants' experience of aging in the U.S. Our paper draws on 42 interviews with a diverse group of older American immigrants to center issues of language, accent, and Othering. We argue that the importance of language extends beyond communication for older immigrants, as English proficiency and accent are important boundaries determining inclusion and recognition as an American. Accents are a racialized characteristic that can prompt microaggressions and exclusion. We identified a racial pattern in reported reactions to accents among the participants in our study. White immigrants generally described positive appraisals of their accent, and typically had a choice whether to emphasize their national origins. While white immigrants were viewed as “Acceptable Outsiders,” many immigrants of color described microaggressions, ridicule, and discrimination related to their accented speech. We contend that these experiences of Othering can have a profound impact on sense of belonging, as many of the older immigrants of color in our study expressed a persistent sense of exclusion and even alienation. We advance the concept of “aging off center” to describe how repeated experiences of Othering and exclusion shape aging experiences for immigrants of color who are long-term residents of the United States.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"67 ","pages":"Article 101189"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91959473","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}

{"title":"Life-course transitions and exclusion from social relations in the lives of older men and women","authors":"Anna Urbaniak ,&nbsp;Kieran Walsh ,&nbsp;Lucie Galčanová Batista ,&nbsp;Marcela Petrová Kafková ,&nbsp;Celia Sheridan ,&nbsp;Rodrigo Serrat ,&nbsp;Franziska Rothe","doi":"10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101188","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There is increasing interest across European contexts in promoting active social lives in older age, and counteracting pathways and outcomes related to social isolation and loneliness for men and women in later life. This is evidenced within national and European level policy, including the 2021 Green Paper on Ageing and its concern with understanding how risks can accrue for European ageing populations in the relational sphere. Research indicates that life-course transitions can function as a source of these risks, leading to a range of potentially exclusionary impacts for the social relations of older men and women. Findings presented in this paper are drawn from the qualitative component of a larger European mixed-methods study on exclusion from social relations (GENPATH: A life course perspective on the GENdered PATHways of social exclusion in later life, and its consequences for health and well-being). We use data from 119 in-depth interviews from four jurisdictions: Austria, Czechia, Ireland and Spain. This research employed an approach that focused on capturing lived experienced insights related to relational change across the life course, the implications of these changes for multifaceted forms of exclusion from social relations and the role of gender in patterning these changes and implications. We focused on transitions that commonly emerged across those jurisdictions for older people: onset of ill-health, bereavement, retirement and relocation. We found that these transitions translate into multidimensional experiences of exclusion from social relations in the lives of older men and women by constraining their social networks, support networks, social opportunities and intimate relationships.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Aging Studies","volume":"67 ","pages":"Article 101188"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50192153","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}