Guest editorial
Anne Killett, Fiona Poland
Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, Vol. 22, No. 3/4, pp.133-134 (Source: Quality in Ageing and Older Adults)
Source: Quality in Ageing and Older Adults - December 8, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Anne Killett
Fiona Poland Source Type: research
“Acting ethically is down to you” applying ethical protocols in qualitative fieldwork in care homes
Tamara Backhouse, Rachel Louise Daly
Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-
Research ethics committees (RECs) and ethical standards govern research. To conduct research involving participants, researchers must first gain a favourable opinion on their protocol from a REC. This paper aims to promote researcher reflexivity and openness about applying agreed ethical protocols in practice.
Using examples from qualitative fieldwork in two care home studies, the authors critically reflect on the issues encountered when applying ethics committee agreed pr...
Source: Quality in Ageing and Older Adults - November 11, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Tamara Backhouse
Rachel Louise Daly Source Type: research
Learning from the experience and effectiveness of retirement village and extra care housing responses to the COVID-19 pandemic
This study addressed a knowledge gap regarding how the COVID-19 pandemic had impacted housing-with-care stakeholders, evidencing specifically how operators had responded, and what their response achieved. (Source: Quality in Ageing and Older Adults)
Source: Quality in Ageing and Older Adults - November 3, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Rachael Dutton Source Type: research
Post-pandemic challenges for all ages in an ageing society
Stephen Burke
Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-
This paper aims to highlight lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for planning for the future of our ageing society. It looks at trends, changes in our society and implications for people of all ages. It focusses on the importance of planning and whether COVID-19 will lead to long-term changes.
This paper draws on the author’s experiences running an intergenerational organisation during the pandemic and other work associated with ageing well.
This paper highlights some of the risks and unkn...
Source: Quality in Ageing and Older Adults - October 22, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Stephen Burke Source Type: research
Editorial
Fiona Poland
Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp.73-74 (Source: Quality in Ageing and Older Adults)
Source: Quality in Ageing and Older Adults - October 9, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Fiona Poland Source Type: research
The neglected contributions of self-efficacy to older adults ’ financial capacity
The neglected contributions of self-efficacy to older adults’ financial capacity
Hassam Waheed
Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-
An ageing population comes with its own set of challenges such as impaired financial capacity and resultant dependency on others to manage financial affairs. Dependency, in turn, as the evidence suggests, creates opportunities for financial exploitation of older adults. Related studies have primarily examined the clinical features and correlates of financial capacity or have attempted to develop its multidimensional mea...
Source: Quality in Ageing and Older Adults - September 15, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Hassam Waheed Source Type: research
Accessibility and informational barriers to an age friendly railway
Charles Musselwhite, Kelly Roberts
Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-
Against a backdrop in an increase in the number of older people in the United Kingdom (UK) and an increase in the amount of travel per person for this age group, the number of older people using the railway is in decline. The purpose of this paper is to report on an investigation is a first step towards ascertaining why through audits of issues and problems on rolling stock and station platforms.
Rolling stock and station audits were carried out by older people across a rail...
Source: Quality in Ageing and Older Adults - September 11, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Charles Musselwhite
Kelly Roberts Source Type: research
More invisible and vulnerable: the impact of COVID-19 on older persons in displacement in Durumi IDP camp Abuja, Nigeria
This study aims at exploring the impact of COVID-19 on older people in displacement.
Data were obtained using semi-structured interviews from 12 older persons at Durumi IDP camp Abuja, while observing strict infection control measures. The data were inductively coded with Nvivo and analysed thematically.
Findings revealed that the economic and psychosocial fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic has increased older persons in displacement poverty, psychological stress and placed them at risk of ageism, social isolation and may subsequently lead to secondary displacement, thereby losing all progress, development and resi...
Source: Quality in Ageing and Older Adults - August 15, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Prince Chiagozie Ekoh
Patricia Uju Agbawodikeizu
Elizabeth Onyedikachi George
Chigozie Donatus Ezulike
Uzoma Odera Okoye Source Type: research
Book review
Tamara Backhouse
Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp.68-69 (Source: Quality in Ageing and Older Adults)
Source: Quality in Ageing and Older Adults - July 23, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Tamara Backhouse Source Type: research
Editorial
Fiona Poland
Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp.1-2 (Source: Quality in Ageing and Older Adults)
Source: Quality in Ageing and Older Adults - July 23, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Fiona Poland Source Type: research
How does physical activity benefit people living with dementia? A systematic review to identify the potential mechanisms of action
Jan Pringle, Ruth Jepson, Alison Dawson, Louise McCabe, Alison Bowes
Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-
One limitation of research that assesses the effectiveness of physical activity interventions for people with dementia is that most do not describe the intervention in sufficient detail to ascertain a theoretical basis or mechanism of action that determines the effective components. This paper aims to identify studies which evaluate the mechanisms of action of physical activity interventions for people with dementia, to further inform effective i...
Source: Quality in Ageing and Older Adults - July 7, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jan Pringle
Ruth Jepson
Alison Dawson
Louise McCabe
Alison Bowes Source Type: research
Exploring resilience in adult daughter and spousal carers of people living with dementia in North West England: an ecological approach
This study aims to update and build on our previous work, using an ecological resilience framework to identify and explore the factors that facilitate or hinder resilience across spousal and adult daughter carers of PLWD.
This study conducted in-depth qualitative interviews with a purposive sample of 13 carers from North West England and analysed the data using a constructivist grounded theory approach (Charmaz, 2003).
Adult daughters were motivated to care out of reciprocity, whereas spouses were motivated to care out of marital duty. Spouses had a more positive and accepting attitude towards caregiving and were...
Source: Quality in Ageing and Older Adults - July 6, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Warren James Donnellan Kate Mary Bennett Natalie Watson Source Type: research
“Honor thy father and thy mother”: the contribution of verbal concerns to the understanding of elderly patients’ satisfaction
This study aims first, to provide a typology of complaints concerning the treatment of elderly patients in geriatric wards; second, to estimate reported satisfaction with treatment; and third, to assess the link between verbal concerns and satisfaction.
Using the “Survey of Geriatric Wards, 2019” a sample of 4,725 family members of patients, hospitalized in 99 geriatric wards in Israel were asked to rate their overall satisfaction with treatment; they also were asked to provide verbal information on the hospitalization experience through an open-ended question. A content analysis was applied to the verbal answers,...
Source: Quality in Ageing and Older Adults - July 6, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Keren Semyonov-Tal Source Type: research
Reflections on music therapy with older adults from an ethnographic perspective
Brigette K. Schneible, Jay F. Gabriel, Joke Bradt
Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-
Older adults often navigate periods of disruptive transition, such as rehousing, that can be understood in terms of ritual transformation, a concept that describes changes to the social self in terms of deconstruction, liminality and reconstruction. Music therapy can assist older adults’ movement through these stages. This paper aims to engage theoretical perspectives on ritual to consider the social and cultural transformation of these residents of a long-term c...
Source: Quality in Ageing and Older Adults - June 26, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Brigette K. Schneible Jay F. Gabriel Joke Bradt Source Type: research
Living in a care home during COVID-19: a case study of one person living with dementia
Ian Davies-Abbott, Catrin Hedd Jones, Gill Windle
Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-
This paper aims to understand the lived experience of a person living with dementia in a care home during the COVID-19 pandemic. It responds to the absence in research of the voices of people with dementia living in care homes during the pandemic.
The paper adopts a single case study design applied thematic analysis to semi-structured interview data to discover the experiences of one person living with dementia in a care home during a period of lockdown.
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Source: Quality in Ageing and Older Adults - June 14, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Ian Davies-Abbott Catrin Hedd Jones Gill Windle Source Type: research
