Validation of the test for finding word retrieval deficits (WoFi) in detecting Alzheimer's disease in a naturalistic clinical setting
ConclusionsWoFi and WoFi-brief are more effective in detecting MildND and MajorND due to AD than ACEIIINaming. (Source: European Journal of Ageing)
Source: European Journal of Ageing - June 30, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Health literacy across personality traits among older adults: cross-sectional evidence from Switzerland
AbstractThis research aims to better understand the association of personality traits (PT) —Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism—with health literacy (HL) skills of adults aged 58 years and older in a nationally representative sample from Switzerland. Analyses were conducted on a subsample (n = 1546) of respondents living in Swit zerland from wave 8 (2019/2020) of the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). PT were assessed with the Big-Five inventory ten (BFI-10). HL was measured using the short version of the European Health Literacy Survey q...
Source: European Journal of Ageing - June 28, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Gerontechnology for better elderly care and life quality: a systematic literature review
AbstractGerontechnology as multidisciplinary research has expanded in recent years due to its significant role in ensuring better care and improved quality of life for older adults and their caregivers. With a substantial increase in studies on reasons behind less inclination of older individuals to accept gerontechnology, barriers to its non-acceptance appear to be persistent. In addition, there is a dearth of research on the adoption of gerontechnology from the perspectives of social caregivers, given that caregivers bear a substantial burden in the form of chronic stress, which adversely affects their health and that of...
Source: European Journal of Ageing - June 22, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Validation of a brief version of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS-16) with an older Norwegian population
AbstractEmotion regulation is proposed to have a salient role in optimal aging. However, currently used measures of emotion regulation have not been validated for older adults. Therefore, we evaluated the psychometric properties of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale —short form (DERS-16) in a large Norwegian sample consisting of individuals between 70 and 95 years (n = 2525). Tests of internal consistency, reliability, assessment of intra-domain correlations, and confirmatory factor analyses were performed. Construct validity was further investigated by assessing concurrent associations between DERS-16 and...
Source: European Journal of Ageing - June 22, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Gerontechnology for better elderly care and life quality: a systematic literature review
AbstractGerontechnology as multidisciplinary research has expanded in recent years due to its significant role in ensuring better care and improved quality of life for older adults and their caregivers. With a substantial increase in studies on reasons behind less inclination of older individuals to accept gerontechnology, barriers to its non-acceptance appear to be persistent. In addition, there is a dearth of research on the adoption of gerontechnology from the perspectives of social caregivers, given that caregivers bear a substantial burden in the form of chronic stress, which adversely affects their health and that of...
Source: European Journal of Ageing - June 22, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Validation of a brief version of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS-16) with an older Norwegian population
AbstractEmotion regulation is proposed to have a salient role in optimal aging. However, currently used measures of emotion regulation have not been validated for older adults. Therefore, we evaluated the psychometric properties of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale —short form (DERS-16) in a large Norwegian sample consisting of individuals between 70 and 95 years (n = 2525). Tests of internal consistency, reliability, assessment of intra-domain correlations, and confirmatory factor analyses were performed. Construct validity was further investigated by assessing concurrent associations between DERS-16 and...
Source: European Journal of Ageing - June 22, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Life history data from the gateway to global ageing data platform: resources for studying life courses across Europe
AbstractResearch from a range of disciplines highlights the need to adopt a life course perspective that considers earlier life courses to explain outcomes in later life (e.g. later life health, cognitive ageing or retirement behaviour). This includes a more comprehensive assessment of earlier life courses over time and of how they are shaped by societal and political contexts. But quantitative data with detailed information on life courses that allow to address these questions are rare. Or, in case the data are available, the data are rather difficult to handle and appears to be underused. This contribution introduces the...
Source: European Journal of Ageing - June 21, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Increasing retirement ages in Denmark: Do changes in gender, education, employment status and health matter?
AbstractRecent studies report significant increases in retirement ages over the past two to three decades in most countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development —increases that research has attributed mainly to changes in the legislative frameworks for retirement in these countries. Using unique data from the Danish Longitudinal Study of Ageing, this study investigates whether and, if so to what extent, changes to the workforce in terms of gender, educati on, employment status (employed or self-employed) and health contribute to explaining differences in retirement ages between the cohorts born i...
Source: European Journal of Ageing - June 17, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
The Current and Retrospective Cognitive Reserve (2CR) survey and its relationship with cognitive and mood measures
AbstractCognitive Reserve (CR) is often assessed with surveys spanning demographic, lifestyle, and socio-behavioral variables. The role of both past and current life experiences on CR has, however, rarely been examined. We developed the Current and Retrospective Cognitive Reserve (2CR) survey to assess classical CR proxies (socio-economic status, engagement in leisure and social activities) and other dimensions of potential importance (family engagement, religious/spiritual activity) both currently (CRc; in later adulthood) and retrospectively (CRr; as recalled from younger adulthood). We administered the 2CR, measures of ...
Source: European Journal of Ageing - June 14, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Changes in retirement plans in the English older population during the COVID-19 pandemic: The roles of health factors and financial insecurity
AbstractOver the course of 2020 and 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted lives globally. In the UK, unemployment rate continued to increase during and post-lockdown periods, and job security and financial wellbeing deteriorated. It is important to understand whether individual decisions related to retirement plans have changed systematically as a result of the pandemic, especially among older adults who experienced greater rates of p andemic unemployment. Using the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, this article examines changes in retirement plans of older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic and estimates the impa...
Source: European Journal of Ageing - June 13, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
