Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 
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This study explored the meaning and roles of grandparenting among Maori grandparents in New Zealand as a possible platform for advancing the conversation on the significance of grandparents in the lives of people across cultures. Participants interviewed included 17 M āori grandparents to great, great grandparents in Aotearoa New Zealand, living in intergenerational homes. A phenomenology approach was used to analyze the data. Five themes were extracted that elucidated the meaning of the roles of grandparenting from the perspective of Māori grandparents: Elders ’ responsibilities from a cultural perspective; support, r...
Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology - February 16, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Psychometric Properties of the CAGE Questionnaire Amongst Middle-Aged and Older Adults in Khuzistan Province of Iran
AbstractThe CAGE questionnaire is an instrument, proved useful in helping to make a diagnosis of alcoholism. The questions focus on Cutting down, Annoyance by criticism, Guilty feeling, and Eye-openers. The questionnaire has been more pervasive simple tool than AUDIT and LAST scales to screen in busy medical settings where limited time is considered for adult patient interviews. The present study aimed to determine the reliability and validity of the CAGE questionnaire in Khuzistan province, Iran and evaluate its role in detecting alcohol-related problems. For this purpose, 382 men with mean age of 65 ± 5 were sample...
Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology - February 16, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Correction: Global Gender Inequality, Older Women, and the Call for Change in the United States
(Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology)
Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology - January 31, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
The Influence of Parent- and Adult Child-level Factors on Intergenerational Relationship Quality: A Study of Chinese Families with Multiple Children in Hong Kong
AbstractIntergenerational relationships have become increasingly crucial for maintaining well-being in aging families. Under a changing sociocultural background, families in Hong Kong increasingly exhibit diverse intergenerational relationships and functioning. Focusing on families with mutiple children, this study investigated how the characteristics of parents and their adult children jointly affect different domains of intergenerational relationship quality. A two-stage stratified random sampling design was adopted. Face-to-face questionnaire interviews were conducted between November 2016 and March 2017 with 1,001 Hong...
Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology - January 24, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Filipino Aging within Global North Diasporas: A Scoping Review
AbstractDrawing on international research, this article examines and navigates through the existing social gerontological and ethnogerontological literature to assess how Filipino aging is understood within Global North societies. A scoping review was conducted in 2018 and in 2022 to offer key insights into how Filipinos age in both the ancestral homeland and increasingly within Global North diasporas. While the existing literature on Filipino aging does mirror existing ethnogerontological literature, which heavily focuses on indicators of cognitive, physical and mental health, and access and provision to formal services, ...
Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology - January 9, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Caregiving Across International Borders: a Systematic Review of Literature on Transnational Carer-Employees
AbstractIn diaspora and transnational studies little is known about the experiences of transnational carer-employees (TCEs). TCEs provide unpaid/informal care across international borders to an adult family member, friend, or relative with disability and/or age-related needs, while also working in paid employment in the country of resettlement. The primary focus of this systematic review was to examine how cultural and historical elements of transnational caregiving influence the economic, social, and health/well-being of TCEs. This systematic review draws on quantitative and qualitative peer-reviewed literature on TCEs...
Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology - December 19, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Health Services Utilization Barriers for Rural Elderly Women in Bangladesh: Narratives of Clinicians, Pharmacists and Public Health Assistants
This study presents a qualitative exploration of the views held by rural health staff whose role is to provide care to local elderly women. We conducted 11 interviews with clinicians, pharmacists and public health assistants in Sylhet district, Bangladesh. A critical thematic discourse ana lysis, using the critical social constructs of Habermas and Honneth, of the data informed the women’s inadequate healthcare access and associated barriers that were complex and overlapping but had explicit institutional, subjective and material consequences. Five major themes emerged including: un equal distribution of health services;...
Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology - December 5, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Representation of Aging in Elementary School Textbooks in Iran
AbstractThe attitude toward older adults is developed from childhood. School textbooks are one of the most important sources of shaping attitude in children. So, the present study aimed to analyze the visual and textual content of the aging concept in elementary school textbooks after the Irans ’s Islamic Revolution (1979). The method of the present study was content analysis, and 112 textbooks were reviewed. The analysis unit included 118 images and 91 subset of texts pertaining to aging concept. The results showed that aging concepts are classified into two positive and negative stereo types categories. The positive st...
Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology - November 25, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Aging in Chinatowns: the Meaning of Place and Aging Experience for Older Immigrants
AbstractThe concept of “Aging in place” has not been fully validated among older immigrant groups living in diverse cultures. The study used a qualitative research approach and interviewed Chinese immigrant older adults across three Chinese enclave communities in New York City to identify whether Chinatowns are a plac e for Chinese immigrants to age and explore their experience of aging in Chinatowns. The findings showed that Chinese immigrants did consider Chinatown as the place, which conveyed practical, linguistic, social, emotional and cultural meaning. Aging in Chinatown, older adults sought independence, se curit...
Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology - November 19, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Global Gender Inequality, Older Women, and the Call for Change in the United States
AbstractGender inequality that persists through much of their lives, from birth through adulthood, impacts women and their quality of life in their later years. With some variation this holds true in every nation in the global community. In older adults, the most apparent indication of gender inequality —and a linchpin—is the disproportionate impoverishment of older women compared to older men. We take stock of global policy directions toward equality for girls and women, focusing specifically on derived avenues for furthering and protecting the economic well-being of older women in the United States, cognizant that th...
Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology - November 5, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Exploring Levels and Correlates of Depression Literacy Among Older Korean Immigrants
ConclusionMisperception about depression and antidepressants may be associated with poor mental health outcomes among older KAs. Culturally-tailored education for older KAs with limited English proficiency could be beneficial in promoting depression literacy and reducing stigma or misconceptions regarding depression and treatments. (Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology)
Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology - November 4, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Up-Close and Personal: Conceptualizing the Self as Dementia Caregiver: a Study in Soweto, South Africa
AbstractThe aim of this study was to understand how dementia caregivers in the township of Soweto, South Africa interpret their role in the context of caregiving through the personal constructs identified using theSelf- Characterization technique. Thirty family caregivers were recruited via purposive sampling methods and completed a Self-Characterization Sketch during semi-structured interviews. Content analysis of construct pairs was thematically coded using the Classification System for Personal Constructs (CSPC) - a reliable method to analyse personal constructs that are generated by constructivist assessments. Findings...
Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology - October 29, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Loneliness in Myanmar ’s older population: A mixed-methods investigation
This study investigates loneliness in the older population of Myanmar using a mixed-methods approach.MethodsTo identify predictors of loneliness, hierarchical regression models were used to analyze data from the Myanmar Aging Survey 2012 (N = 3,618, 57% women). In a mixed-methods sequential explanatory design, quantitative data were integrated with qualitative data from semi-structured interviews with older adults in Myanmar in 2019.ResultsThe prevalence of loneliness varied by between-person characteristics. Health impairments, lower income, being widowed, not having children, and living with fewer household members ...
Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology - October 27, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Associations Between Country where Education is Obtained and Cognitive Functioning Among South American and Caribbean Older Adults Living in the U.S
AbstractThe increasing prevalence of AD among Hispanics calls for a need for examining factors that affect cognitive functioning and risk of AD among Hispanic older adults. The current study examined cognitive functioning among older Hispanic adults living in the U.S. from two Hispanic regions, South America and the Caribbean, in relation to the country where education was obtained. Participants (n = 139) were stratified into groups based on Hispanic education region and diagnostic categories: cognitively normal and amnestic MCI (aMCI). Results of Pearson correlations showed that among Hispanic Americans in general, t...
Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology - October 17, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
The Use of Information Communication Technologies in a South African Deaf Older Adult Population Living in a Residential Care Home to Communicate with Emigrant Family Members
This article reports on a qualitative study exploring the perceptions of a group of older adults who have difficulty hearing and who live in a residential care home about using ICTs to communicate with family abroad. Interview data were analysed using thematic analysis. Most of the participants used either a fixed line telephone or a mobile phone. They reported challenges in communicating with family members abroad arising from their deafness, as well as difficulties using technological devices together with their hearing aids. These challenges resulted in feelings of helplessness and frustration. Although the data collect...
Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology - September 22, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
