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Using Cultural Lens Theory to Investigate the Impact of a Nursing Education Practicum in Aged Healthcare: Aotearoa New Zealand ’s Bi-cultural Framework
ConclusionViewed through a cultural lens, a westernized concept of aged healthcare provision continues to prevail in most settings. Nursing students noted gaps between cultural learning and practice. (Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology)
Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology - September 8, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

The Psychological and Economic Impacts of Caregiving on Family Carers for People with Probable Dementia in Rural South India
This article examines the psychological and economic impacts caregiving has on carers of people with suspected dementia and the mechanisms by which they cope with challenges. A mixed-method design was adopted. A baseline survey of 123 older people was undertaken in a resource-poor setting in Kerala, India, using Addenbrooke ’s Cognitive Examination – Malayalam Version (ACE-m) to identify those with probable dementia. This was followed by in-depth interviews with ten carers of those identified as having cognitive impairment. The data were later transcribed and thematically analysed using N-Vivo to identify main conc ept...
Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology - July 2, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

Exploring the Effects of Gender Differences and Widowhood Status on the Days Spent in Poor Health: A Secondary Data Analysis from India
AbstractThe majority of research in India has focused on the impact of widowhood on health status and health care use, while little emphasis has been  paid to the number of days spent in poor health among widowed population compare to other marital categories. Thus, the current study explores the relationship between widowhood and days spent with poor health outcomes among adults in India. Additionally, gender differences in the relationship be tween widowhood and days with poor health outcomes are further studied.The research employed nationally representative cross-sectional data from the 75th round (2017 –2018) of t...
Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology - May 24, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

Knowledge, Attitudes, and Cultural Beliefs about Healthy Aging and Alzheimer ’s Disease among Older Chinese Americans in New York City
The objective of this study is to examine knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about healthy aging and ADRD among older Chinese Americans living in New York City. Chinese Americans with very low English proficiency were recruited from a senior center in New York City. Accordingly, s urveys were translated and focus groups were conducted in Mandarin or Cantonese. Questionnaires assessed demographic and health characteristics. Focus groups followed an open-ended protocol which was guided by the published literature. Focus group discussions were audio recorded, transcribed, and tr anslated to English for qualitative analysis. An...
Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology - May 17, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

Social position of older immigrants in the Netherlands: where do immigrants perceive themselves on the societal ladder?
AbstractOlder Turkish and Moroccan immigrants are often ascribed a low social position based on their relatively unfavourable educational level, occupational status and income. Yet immigrants emigrated to improve their social position and came from contexts where determinants of social position might be based on different socio-cultural circumstances than those used in the country of settlement. In order to understand immigrants ’ own perception of their social position, we interviewed 23 60–68 year old immigrants from Turkish and Moroccan origin in the Netherlands. Using a ten rung ladder, participants were asked to p...
Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology - April 20, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

Technology in the Home Care of Older People: Views from Finland and Ireland
This article draws on recent data from Ireland and Finland, two countries at different stages of technological development, to examine the role of technology in the home care for older adults. Research participants (service providers and care recipients) agreed that technology could play an important role by improving communications, enabling social contact, and connecting the ‘lone worker’ and ‘isolated patient’ to other stakeholders in home care services. However, participants also had serious concerns around technology. Care was conceptualised as relational and participants expressed apprehension about technolog...
Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology - April 18, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

“I Know Hyena. Do you Know Hyena?” Challenges in Interpreter-Mediated Dementia Assessment, Focusing on the Role of the Interpreter
AbstractDementia assessment requires functional communication and interaction between healthcare professionals and the patient being assessed. These can be affected by the requirement for an interpreter to communicate with the patient. The purpose of this study was to elucidate the interactions between patient, healthcare professionals and interpreter, focusing on the role of the interpreter and the challenges that may arise in interpreter-mediated dementia assessment. The study had an ethnographic design in which the data consisted of audio and video recordings of 19 dementia assessments conducted in the presence of an in...
Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology - March 8, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

“I tried to control my emotions”: Nursing Home Care Workers’ Experiences of Emotional Labor in China
This article examines the emotional labor of Chinese DCWs through ethnographic data collected with 20 DCWs in one nursing home located in an urban setting in central China. Data were analyzed using conventional content analysis and constant comparison. Participants ’ accounts of sustaining a caring self, preserving professional identity, and hoping for reciprocity revealed implicit meanings about the often-conflicting nature of emotional labor and the nonreciprocal elements of care work under constrained working conditions. Importantly, the moral-cultural no tion ofbao ( 报 norm of reciprocity) was found to be central ...
Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology - February 18, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

Acknowledgement of Reviewers for Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 2021
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Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology - February 3, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

Socio-Demographic Predictors of E-Government Use in Later Life: Results from the Israel Social Survey
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Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology - January 19, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

Location and Provision of Support from Migrants to Left-behind Parents in Rural Cambodia
This study examines determinants of support provision, with a focus on migrant location. Based on family solidarity and altruism theories, other factors were considered that indicate migrant ’s ability to provide, the degree of parental vulnerability and degree of interaction. We hypothesized that the likelihood of migrant support provision to left-behind parents related to their location, ability to provide and needs of the household. Data were sourced from the 2011 Cambodian Rural U rban Migration Project (CRUMP) (N = 3700). In bivariate analysis, 77% of both international and rural to urban internal migrants provi...
Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology - January 15, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

Use of Home and Community Based Services in Urban China: Experiences of Older Adults with Disabilities
This study examined the factors related to the use of home and community based services (HCBS) by urban Chinese older adults with disabilities. The study used data from the 2006 Sample Survey on Aged Population in Urban/Rural China. A total of 3,920 older adults who experienced at least one disability were included in this sample. Of the study participants, 13.9% used housekeeping services and 12.2% used doctor/nurse home visit services. Results from logistic regression tests showed that older adults ’ gender, educational attainment, financial strain, family support, and number of chronic illnesses were significantly rel...
Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology - January 13, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

In the Shadows of Others: Unheard Voices of Older Russian Immigrant Women in the United States
AbstractOlder post-Soviet immigrants in the U.S. have been largely overlooked by research despite their unique experience of having lived in a totalitarian regime until middle age, only to find their lives profoundly altered after its fall. Our qualitative study examined the experiences and caregiving expectations of 16 older post-Soviet immigrant women (mean age  = 74.5 years, SD =5.8) through in-depth, face-to-face interviews. Data analysis revealed four themes: broken family ties, happiness in the little things that money can buy, intergenerational comparison, and a nursing home is not an option. Overall, our findi...
Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology - January 13, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

The Good Old Days: how Older Adults in Present-Day Ghana Compare themselves to Older Adults in Past Generations
This study explores nostalgia among older adults in present-day Ghana by investigating how they subjectively compare themselves to older adults in the past. A purposive sample of 23 older adults provided data through semi-structured face-to-face interviews and data analysis employed a general inductive approach, with a focus on content and thematic analytic procedures. The findings show an overall theme of ‘the good old days’, how participants compare themselves negatively to older adults in their past, believing and feeling that older adults in the past enjoyed better health and longevity and had more care and respect...
Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology - December 3, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

Measurement Invariance of the Brief Resilient Coping Scale (BRCS) in Peruvian and Spanish Older Adults
AbstractAlthough the Brief Resilient Coping Scale (BRCS) has been validated in some European and American countries, there are no studies that evaluate its factorial invariance among different nations. In this sense, the objective of the study is to evaluate the factorial invariance of the BRCS in samples of older adults in Peru and Spain, using multigroup Confirmatory Factor Analysis. 236 older adults from Peru participated (Mean age  = 72.8, SD = 6.90) and 133 older adults from Spain (Mean age = 71, SD = 7). In the Peruvian sample 78.4% were women and 21.6% men; while in the Spanish sample the majority we...
Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology - November 8, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research