Pub Date : 2022-06-15DOI: 10.1080/01924788.2022.2087284
B. Resnick, E. Galik, Rachel McPherson, Erin Vigne, Sarah D. Holmes
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to test the preliminary effectiveness and feasibility of implementation of Function Focused Care for Assisted Living Using the Evidence Integration Triangle in Assisted Living Communities with Residents with Dementia (FFC-AL-EIT-D) during the pandemic. This was a single group pre-post study design including 51 communities in a single state. The communities ranged in size from 8 to 50 residents with a mean of 13 (SD = 7). The majority (99%) were for profit. Following implementation of FFC-AL-EIT-D there was significant improvement in environments and policies supporting physical activity and some evidence suggesting they used new supplies to engage residents in physical activity. There was no change in falls, emergency room, hospital, or nursing home transfers.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-26eCollection Date: 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1155/2022/9059371
Gasem Mohammad Abu-Taweel, Mohsen Ghaleb Al-Mutary, Hani Manssor Albetran
Silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) have been used in medical, agricultural, and industrial purposes. Furthermore, NPs can cross the blood-brain barrier and encourage some effects on spatial learning and memory in organism. Here, we investigate the possible neurotoxicity of Ag-NPs with special emphasis on the neuroprotective impacts of yttrium-oxide nanoparticles (YO-NPs) in male mice. Male mice (n = 24) were weekly intraperitoneally injected for 35 days as the following; groups I, II, III, and IV received tap water (control), Ag-NPs (40 mg/kg), YO-NPs (40 mg/kg), and Ag-NPs/YO-NPs (40 mg/kg each), respectively. After that, animals were tested in shuttle box, Morris water-maze, and T-maze devices to evaluate the spatial learning and memory competence. Neurotransmitters and oxidative indices in the forebrain were estimated. According to behavioral studies, the male animals from the Ag-NP group presented worse memory than those in the control group. The biochemical changes after Ag-NP exposure were observed through increasing TBARS levels and decline in oxidative biomarkers (SOD, CAT, GST, and GSH) and neurotransmitters (DOP, SER, and AChE) in the forebrain of male mice compared to untreated animals. Interestingly, the animals treated with mixed doses of Ag-NPs and YO-NPs displayed improvements in behavioral tests, oxidative parameters, and neurotransmitters compared to males treated with Ag-NPs alone. In conclusion, the abnormal behavior related to learning and memory in male mice induced by Ag-NPs was significantly alleviated by YO-NPs. Specifically, the coinjection of YO-NPs with Ag-NPs moderates the disruption in neurotransmitters, oxidative indices of mice brains, which reflects on their cognitive behaviors.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-12DOI: 10.1080/01924788.2022.2065436
Andrea Kenkmann, Joachim Burkard
ABSTRACT Attending church services is an important experience for many older adults. Social distancing measures during the Covid-19 pandemic prompted a temporary suspension of church services. During this lockdown period, churches provided a range of alternative service formats. This study investigates how older people experienced these. Telephone interviews were conducted with 12 regular churchgoers between the ages of 67 and 94 during the lockdown period in three Roman Catholic parishes in Southern Germany. Participants missed church services, but valued various alternative formats. The cemetery became a focal meeting point for some older parishioners. Flexibility in the organization of spiritual support was appreciated.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/01924788.2022.2070947
Carmen Bowman, Weng Marc Lim
The life of older adults is multi-faceted and the same can be said about the efforts to improve older adults’ quality of life. In this latest issue of Activities, Adaptations and Aging: Purposeful and Dignified Living for Older Adults, we present four exciting articles contributed by scholars from Mexico and the UK. Using a systematic literature review guided by the PRISMA protocol, Shoesmith, Charura, and Surr (2022) consolidated extant evidence on the effective components of visual arts that support older people with dementia. Their review reveals many positive outcomes for older people who have attended visual arts sessions. The benefits include but are not limited to improvements in cognition, communication, confidence, engagement, health, morale, quality of life, self-esteem, social connection, and wellbeing. Visual arts are well known for uncovering and exploring emotions, something desperately needed at least as an option for older people yearning to express emotion. Visual arts also bring pleasure, new knowledge, and new skills while facilitating self-expression. The review highlighted a profound observation by Walsh et al. (2011) that older people “seemed to be thirsting for contact” during visual arts sessions. More importantly, through this review, the authors discovered that the effectiveness of visual arts can be shaped by session content, participant choice, artistic ability, the role of the facilitator/therapist, group work, and setting. Specifically, the authors found one-hour sessions that are conducted weekly and that provide older people with decision-making opportunities such as the choice of art mediums to be highly encouraging. In addition, the authors observed that sessions that include both art viewing and art making together positively affect older people’s wellbeing. Noteworthily, visual arts sessions provide a natural setting for socialization, whereby participants talk with each other and compliment each other’s work. Also discovered was that visual arts experience by participants is not necessary whereas, and not surprising, skilled facilitation does make a positive difference when facilitators are skilled in both arts and serving older people with dementia. This work fits well with Lim’s (2022) theory of social influence as older people living with dementia are “thirsting for contact.” Thus, visual arts sessions can be considered in attempts to satisfy the need for social connectedness. ACTIVITIES, ADAPTATION & AGING 2022, VOL. 46, NO. 2, 91–95 https://doi.org/10.1080/01924788.2022.2070947
{"title":"Promising Practices for Social Connectedness, Fall Prevention, and Improved Cognition: Should Social Care Be Prescribed? Should Life Be Medicalized?","authors":"Carmen Bowman, Weng Marc Lim","doi":"10.1080/01924788.2022.2070947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01924788.2022.2070947","url":null,"abstract":"The life of older adults is multi-faceted and the same can be said about the efforts to improve older adults’ quality of life. In this latest issue of Activities, Adaptations and Aging: Purposeful and Dignified Living for Older Adults, we present four exciting articles contributed by scholars from Mexico and the UK. Using a systematic literature review guided by the PRISMA protocol, Shoesmith, Charura, and Surr (2022) consolidated extant evidence on the effective components of visual arts that support older people with dementia. Their review reveals many positive outcomes for older people who have attended visual arts sessions. The benefits include but are not limited to improvements in cognition, communication, confidence, engagement, health, morale, quality of life, self-esteem, social connection, and wellbeing. Visual arts are well known for uncovering and exploring emotions, something desperately needed at least as an option for older people yearning to express emotion. Visual arts also bring pleasure, new knowledge, and new skills while facilitating self-expression. The review highlighted a profound observation by Walsh et al. (2011) that older people “seemed to be thirsting for contact” during visual arts sessions. More importantly, through this review, the authors discovered that the effectiveness of visual arts can be shaped by session content, participant choice, artistic ability, the role of the facilitator/therapist, group work, and setting. Specifically, the authors found one-hour sessions that are conducted weekly and that provide older people with decision-making opportunities such as the choice of art mediums to be highly encouraging. In addition, the authors observed that sessions that include both art viewing and art making together positively affect older people’s wellbeing. Noteworthily, visual arts sessions provide a natural setting for socialization, whereby participants talk with each other and compliment each other’s work. Also discovered was that visual arts experience by participants is not necessary whereas, and not surprising, skilled facilitation does make a positive difference when facilitators are skilled in both arts and serving older people with dementia. This work fits well with Lim’s (2022) theory of social influence as older people living with dementia are “thirsting for contact.” Thus, visual arts sessions can be considered in attempts to satisfy the need for social connectedness. ACTIVITIES, ADAPTATION & AGING 2022, VOL. 46, NO. 2, 91–95 https://doi.org/10.1080/01924788.2022.2070947","PeriodicalId":45731,"journal":{"name":"Activities Adaptation & Aging","volume":"46 1","pages":"91 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45173895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-27DOI: 10.1080/01924788.2022.2056682
Zara Thompson, J. Tamplin, I. Clark, F. Baker
ABSTRACT This paper seeks to represent the perspectives of community-dwelling people who are living with dementia and their family care-partners, who participated community-based, therapeutic choirs that were formed as part of the Remini-Sing project. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was used to analyze data from interviews with fourteen participants (7 people living with dementia [4 women, mean age = 82] and 7 care-partners [5 women, mean age = 68]). Eight themes identified the perceived benefits of choir singing and elements of the choirs and research project more broadly that influenced participation. Findings support past research that suggests choir singing is an accessible and enjoyable activity that can support the health and wellbeing of people living with dementia and their family care-partners. Challenges with recruitment and sustainability of programs post-research are highlighted.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-25DOI: 10.1080/01924788.2022.2056679
K. Prentice, C. Hand, L. Misener, J. Hopkins
ABSTRACT Research and theory suggest that leisure, sense of home, and identity are all implicated in older adults moving to new residences. An integrative review was conducted to provide a more in-depth understanding of how these concepts inter-relate and shape older adults’ moving to new homes. Seventeen studies were included, and thematic analysis showed that older adults continued, adapted, and changed their leisure activities and used leisure to develop a sense of home and maintain identity. This review can inform practice and policy initiatives, and further research could enhance understanding of leisure’s role in older adults’ transition to new homes.
{"title":"Older Adults’ Relocation Transitions: Relation of Place, Leisure and Identity","authors":"K. Prentice, C. Hand, L. Misener, J. Hopkins","doi":"10.1080/01924788.2022.2056679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01924788.2022.2056679","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Research and theory suggest that leisure, sense of home, and identity are all implicated in older adults moving to new residences. An integrative review was conducted to provide a more in-depth understanding of how these concepts inter-relate and shape older adults’ moving to new homes. Seventeen studies were included, and thematic analysis showed that older adults continued, adapted, and changed their leisure activities and used leisure to develop a sense of home and maintain identity. This review can inform practice and policy initiatives, and further research could enhance understanding of leisure’s role in older adults’ transition to new homes.","PeriodicalId":45731,"journal":{"name":"Activities Adaptation & Aging","volume":"47 1","pages":"146 - 170"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49021961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-25DOI: 10.1080/01924788.2022.2056681
Jennifer Muhaidat, L. Al-Khlaifat, Emad Al-Yahya, Maha T. Mohammad, R. Okasheh, Dania Qutishat, H. Dawes
ABSTRACT This study aimed to explore factors associated with Physical Activity (PA) in Jordanian older people. Global Physical Activity Questionnaire was used to measure PA in 120 adults aged ≥ 60 years. Physical and psychosocial factors related to PA were measured including gait and balance, cognition, health-related quality of life, self-reported health, fear of falling and sociodemographic factors. Multiple linear regression analysis showed that longer sedentary time (Beta = −0.23, p = .009) and female gender (Beta = −0.36, p < .001) predicted lower PA. Use of walking aids (Beta = 0.21, p = .02) and poorer perceived general health (Beta = −0.25, p = .01) predicted longer sedentary time. Only small variance (adjusted R2 = 0.25 for PA and 0.22 for sedentary time, p < .001) was explained by the variables. Larger scale studies should explore cultural and environmental factors that could explain PA in this population.
本研究旨在探讨约旦老年人身体活动(PA)的相关因素。采用全球身体活动问卷对120名年龄≥60岁的成年人进行PA测量。测量了与PA相关的生理和心理因素，包括步态和平衡、认知、健康相关的生活质量、自我报告的健康状况、对摔倒的恐惧和社会人口因素。多元线性回归分析显示，久坐时间越长(Beta = - 0.23, p = 0.009)和女性(Beta = - 0.36, p < 0.001)预测PA降低。使用助行器(Beta = 0.21, p = 0.02)和较差的总体健康状况(Beta = - 0.25, p = 0.01)预示着久坐的时间更长。只有很小的方差(调整后的R2 = 0.25 PA和0.22久坐时间，p < 0.001)被变量解释。更大规模的研究应该探索文化和环境因素可以解释这一人群的PA。
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Pub Date : 2022-03-02DOI: 10.1080/01924788.2022.2044989
L. Klaming, L. Robbemond, P. Lemmens, Evelijne Hart de Ruijter
ABSTRACT Many older people experience everyday memory complaints which can be a precursor condition to mild cognitive impairment and dementia. Research has consistently shown that compensatory cognitive training (CCT) benefits cognition in older adults. Providing CCT in a computerized format makes it more accessible and reduces its costs. We studied a newly developed digital CCT for older adults with everyday memory complaints that is multi-factorial and based on empirically supported techniques to improve memory. 55 older adults with self-reported everyday memory complaints participated in a study with outcomes assessed at baseline and post-intervention. We found that participants in the experimental condition improved significantly on the main objective outcome measure assessing associative memory compared to participants in a waitlist control condition. Specifically, after correcting for learning effects, 28% of participants in the experimental condition showed a reliable improvement. No effects were found on other objective outcome measures, most notably those assessing transfer to novel tasks. Participants in the experimental condition scored higher on measures of memory satisfaction, use of internal memory strategies, and quality of life. These findings contribute to existing knowledge on CCT by providing partial evidence for the efficacy of a digital CCT for older adults with everyday memory complaints. We recommend the use of digital CCT for older adults who experience memory complaints in their everyday life, but who do not qualify for medical treatment. Particular attention needs to be given to enhancing transfer of the learned strategies to everyday life.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.7861/clinmed.2022-0057
Antony Raharja, Laurence Whitefield
Visual loss describes temporary or permanent reduction in visual acuity and/or field. Its aetiology is diverse due to the contributions of the different neuro-ophthalmic structures (eye, optic nerve, and brain) to image formation and perception, but may be categorised into ocular causes (corneal, lenticular, vitreoretinal and macular) or optic neuropathies. Clinical evaluation of visual loss relies on thorough history and examination to guide further tests. In this article, we provide a practical overview of visual loss assessment for general physicians.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-27DOI: 10.1080/01924788.2022.2044975
O. Oyinlola
ABSTRACT There has been very little research and policy regarding the inclusion of older adults in new technological applications in Nigeria and other sub-Saharan African region. The study examined the use of social media among older adults in Ibadan, South-West, Nigeria using a semi-structured interview. A qualitative explorative study was set-up, involving six consenting members of the Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP), Ibadan branch whose age is above 55 years. Purposive sampling technique was used to include the participants who have access to a social media-enabled phone. A semi-structured was conducted to obtain information about the social media usage among the older adults. Thematic analysis was used to analyze interview transcripts. The mean age of the older adults is 58.5. Two themes emerged from the interview session: experience and barriers to social media use. Participants had an exciting experience using social media to maintain social connectedness and barriers associated with privacy, poor access to the internet, illiteracy, and frustration. The study concludes that social media use is essential to sustaining social connectedness among older adults. Desire to use social media among the older adults is embedded in their social, personal, and cognitive context. The study advocates for inclusive digital programming for older adults.
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