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Reassessing the goals of musical activities for people living with dementia: Supporting joint agency, selfhood and couplehood with an embodied and relational approach 重新评估痴呆症患者音乐活动的目标：用体现和关系的方法支持联合机构、自我身份和夫妻身份

IF 1.8 3区社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY

Journal of Aging Studies

Pub Date : 2024-11-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101289

Justin Christensen, Renee Timmers, Jennifer MacRitchie

A risk present in medically informed psychosocial interventions for dementia, including musical interventions, is the potential to overly prioritise the reduction of cognitive decline, which can inadvertently emphasise deterioration and loss of skills and capacities. This focus can lead to disempowering people living with dementia rather than supporting and building on the skills that remain. In this paper, we present approaches linked with a more positive outlook on dementia, examining the strengths that continue in people living with dementia, as evidenced by how they engage in musical activities. We pay specific attention to how people living with dementia use embodied and relational ways of being and interacting with others, as well as the benefits that musical engagement can provide to selfhood, couplehood and agency in a context of change and adaptation due to the development of the condition. We propose a shift in perspective that takes advantage of music's affordances for embodied communication and connection, recognising people living with dementia as active agents with strengths in habituated ways of acting. With this shift we examine how couples can scaffold each other's abilities to reach towards a balanced sense of reciprocity. To further support this balanced reciprocity through embodied and relational aspects of musical participation, we make a proposal for the design of assistive music technologies that will support notions of we-perspective, joint agency and joint action, with each of these providing wellbeing benefits for people living with dementia and their carers. Drawing on the potential effects that embodiment and relationality have on agency, selfhood and couplehood in musical engagement, we present a case for reassessing the goals and design of musical activities and the technologies to support them.

以医学为依据的痴呆症社会心理干预（包括音乐干预）中存在的一个风险是，可能会过度优先考虑减少认知能力的衰退，从而无意中强调了技能和能力的退化和丧失。这种侧重点可能会削弱痴呆症患者的能力，而不是支持和发扬他们所保留的技能。在本文中，我们介绍了与对痴呆症更积极的看法相关联的方法，研究了痴呆症患者身上持续存在的优势，这些优势可以从他们如何参与音乐活动中得到证明。我们特别关注痴呆症患者如何使用体现性和关系性的方式与他人相处和互动，以及在因病情发展而变化和适应的背景下，参与音乐活动能为自我身份、夫妻身份和代理权带来的益处。我们建议转变视角，利用音乐在身体交流和联系方面的优势，承认痴呆症患者是积极的行为主体，在习惯的行为方式方面具有优势。通过这种转变，我们研究了夫妻双方如何为彼此的能力提供支架，以实现平衡的互惠感。为了通过音乐参与的体现和关系方面进一步支持这种平衡的互惠，我们提出了设计辅助音乐技术的建议，这些技术将支持 "我们-视角"、"共同代理 "和 "共同行动 "的概念，其中每一个概念都能为痴呆症患者及其照顾者带来福祉。根据体现和关系性对音乐参与中的代理、自我身份和情侣身份的潜在影响，我们提出了重新评估音乐活动的目标和设计以及支持这些活动的技术的理由。

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Radio dramatization of aging in Harold Pinter's A Slight Ache 哈罗德-品特的《微痛》中有关衰老的广播剧

IF 1.8 3区社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY

Journal of Aging Studies

Pub Date : 2024-11-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101290

Chen Su

This article examines Harold Pinter's 1959 radio play A Slight Ache through the lens of aging. It argues that Pinter utilizes sound-based techniques to heighten the introspective crisis of aging experienced by the protagonist Edward. The matchseller in the play serves as an auditory doppelgänger, representing Edward's unresolved conflict between his youthful self-image and his aging body, a struggle that drives the play's psychological depth. Moreover, the article explores Edward's loneliness via his one-sided dialogues and emotive pauses, as well as his disoriented experience of time and space in his process of aging. Pinter's innovative use of radiophonic devices enhances the introspective depth, encouraging listeners to engage with Edward's experience on a deeply personal level and a more empathetic view of the complexities of growing older.

本文从衰老的视角审视了哈罗德-品特 1959 年的广播剧《微痛》。文章认为，品特利用以声音为基础的技巧来强化主人公爱德华所经历的衰老危机。剧中的卖火柴者充当了听觉上的二重身，代表了爱德华在年轻的自我形象和衰老的身体之间无法解决的冲突，而这种挣扎推动了该剧的心理深度。此外，文章还通过爱德华的片面对话和情感停顿，探讨了他的孤独感，以及他在衰老过程中对时间和空间的迷失体验。品特创新性地使用了无线电设备，增强了内省的深度，鼓励听众从深层次参与爱德华的经历，并以更加感同身受的视角看待复杂的老年生活。

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How do we understand ‘age’ and ‘aging’? Cultural constructions of the ‘aging’ experience in British English and Chinese from a linguistic perspective 我们如何理解 "年龄 "和 "衰老"？从语言学角度看英式英语和汉语中 "衰老 "体验的文化建构

IF 1.8 3区社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY

Journal of Aging Studies

Pub Date : 2024-11-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101288

Taochen Zhou

This study investigates the cognitive constructions surrounding the aging experience in British English and Mandarin Chinese. The study employs corpus data to explore how fixed phrases manifest the perceptions of ‘age’, ‘aging’, and by extension ‘old age’. It lays out the linguistic patterns that are common in each language. By analyzing the similarities and differences, the findings show that the same biological phenomenon is not expressed in the same linguistic patterns consistently across languages, and that culture plays an important role in structuring conceptual preferences. Most distinctively, ‘age’ in Chinese can be a separate entity with an upward-oriented path on the aging JOURNEY which is unfound in English. This study sheds light on the associations between language, thought and culture to foster sensitive communication under the background that aging perceptions may have an impact on older adults' general wellbeing and health behavior.

本研究调查了英式英语和汉语普通话中围绕衰老体验的认知结构。研究采用语料库数据，探讨固定短语如何体现 "年龄"、"衰老 "以及由此引申的 "老年 "的认知。它列出了每种语言中常见的语言模式。通过分析这些语言的异同，研究结果表明，同一种生物现象在不同语言中的表达方式并不一致，文化在概念偏好的结构中扮演着重要角色。最与众不同的是，汉语中的 "年龄 "可以是一个独立的实体，在衰老的旅程中具有向上的路径，这在英语中是找不到的。本研究揭示了语言、思想和文化之间的关联，从而在老龄化观念可能影响老年人总体福祉和健康行为的背景下，促进敏感的沟通。

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Socio-spatial analysis of Australian residential care facilities: A case study of traditional, medium, and small household models 澳大利亚寄宿护理设施的社会空间分析：传统、中型和小型家庭模式案例研究

IF 1.8 3区社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY

Journal of Aging Studies

Pub Date : 2024-11-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101287

Sarah McGann , Holly Farley , Caroline Bulsara , Anahita Sal Moslehian

While it is imperative to develop building design innovation to adapt to new care models and organisational processes in residential care facilities, there is a lack of research evidence on the interplay between design and resident lived experience, particularly when examined through a building design lens. This study aims to explore the building design factors that contribute to residents' quality of life (QoL), and thus, their ability to find home. The research objectives are to: 1) document and analyse the layout and spatial design of three different typologies (Traditional, Medium, and Small Household models) against key QoL themes and the residents' everyday lived use and sense of feeling at home; and 2) compare the architectural, layout, and lived use of the three typologies through a socio-spatial lens. Employing a mixed methods approach, incorporating architectural and ethnographic research strategies, we identified six key design concepts encompassing 14 factors that might be related to residents' quality of life. The research highlights distinct everyday lived use and spatial adaptation among the three building typologies, with the Small Household case study standing out for providing an excellent holistic setting, resulting in high levels of observed QoL. This paper also suggests practical insights into improving building design briefs.

虽然开发建筑设计创新以适应新的护理模式和住宿护理设施的组织流程势在必行，但有关设计与居民生活体验之间相互作用的研究证据却很缺乏，尤其是通过建筑设计的视角来考察时更是如此。本研究旨在探索影响住户生活质量（QoL）的建筑设计因素，从而了解住户寻找家的能力。研究目标如下1) 记录并分析三种不同类型（传统型、中户型和小户型）的布局和空间设计，并将其与关键的 QoL 主题以及居民的日常使用情况和家的感觉联系起来；以及 2) 通过社会空间视角，比较三种类型的建筑、布局和日常使用情况。我们采用混合方法，结合建筑学和人种学研究策略，确定了与居民生活质量相关的六个关键设计概念，包括 14 个因素。研究强调了三种建筑类型之间不同的日常生活使用和空间适应性，其中小户型案例研究因提供了极佳的整体环境而脱颖而出，从而获得了高水平的生活质量。本文还提出了改进建筑设计概要的实用见解。

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Aging together-with: The growing older of humans, non-humans and more-than-humans. A commentary 共同变老：人类、非人类和超人类的老龄化。评论

IF 1.8 3区社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY

Journal of Aging Studies

Pub Date : 2024-11-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101280

Stephen Katz

This Commentary discusses the key areas of thought brought together in this special issue on ‘Aging Together-With: The Growing Older of Humans, Non-Humans and More-Than-Humans’, edited by Michela Cozza and Anna Wanka. In particular, the articles in this issue present original and insightful discussions about the relational, material, embodied and interactive nature of ‘aging together-with’ environments, technologies, animals and pets, and more, across plural and hybrid temporalities and vital spaces of life. My writing both looks outward to where this issue critiques and advances current trends in aging studies and inward to reflect on my own contributions to these trends.

本评论讨论了由米切拉-科扎和安娜-万卡编辑的 "共同老龄化：人类、非人类和超人类的老龄化 "特刊中汇集的主要思想领域。特别是，本期的文章对 "与环境、技术、动物和宠物等一起变老 "的关系、物质、体现和互动性质，以及多元和混合的时空和生命的重要空间，进行了独创性和富有洞察力的讨论。我的文章既向外看本期杂志对当前老龄化研究趋势的批判和推进，也向内反思我自己对这些趋势的贡献。

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Hidden in plain sight: Women and gendered dementia dynamics in the Australian Aged Care Royal Commission 隐藏在众目睽睽之下：澳大利亚老年护理皇家委员会中的女性与性别痴呆症动态关系

IF 1.8 3区社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY

Journal of Aging Studies

Pub Date : 2024-11-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101285

Kristina Chelberg , Linda Steele

Dementia is known to unequally affect women, whether as women living with dementia, or women who provide unwaged or paid care, yet dementia and long-term care (‘LTC’) research and policy often ignore gender. Using Australia as a case study and building on critical dementia, critical disability, and feminist scholarship, this discourse analysis study explored representations in the Australian Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety (‘ACRC’) Final Report of experiences of women with dementia, and women care partners of people with dementia, using long-term care. This paper argues gender remained an overlooked topic in relation to dementia in the ACRC Final Report. This paper found women and dementia were co-constructed according to normative gendered scripts of passive femininity. In particular, harms experienced by women with dementia in long-term care were overlooked, while the feminised labour of women care partners was taken for granted. In failing to address normative gendered patterns, the ACRC Final Report entrenches rather than unseats marginalisation of women in dementia research and policy and is a missed opportunity to address gendered labour, discrimination and harms in long-term care. Ultimately, the paper highlights the need to recognise long-term care as a key site for critical dementia and feminist scholarly and activist interventions and intersectional approaches in reforms.

众所周知，痴呆症对女性的影响是不平等的，无论是痴呆症女性患者，还是提供无偿或有偿护理的女性，但痴呆症和长期护理（LTC）的研究和政策往往忽视了性别问题。这项话语分析研究以澳大利亚为案例，在批判性痴呆症、批判性残疾和女权主义学术研究的基础上，探讨了澳大利亚皇家老年护理质量与安全委员会（ACRC）最终报告中关于痴呆症女性患者和痴呆症患者的女性护理伙伴在使用长期护理服务时的经历的表述。本文认为，在 ACRC 的《最终报告》中，性别仍然是与痴呆症有关的一个被忽视的话题。本文发现，女性和痴呆症是根据被动女性的规范性性别脚本共同构建的。尤其是，患有痴呆症的女性在长期护理中所经历的伤害被忽视了，而女性护理伙伴的女性化劳动被认为是理所当然的。ACRC 的最终报告未能解决规范性的性别模式问题，从而巩固而非消除了女性在痴呆症研究和政策中的边缘化地位，错失了解决长期护理中的性别劳动、歧视和伤害问题的良机。最后，本文强调有必要认识到长期护理是关键性痴呆症和女权主义学者与活动家干预和改革交叉方法的关键场所。

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Four modes of embodiment in later life 晚年生活的四种体现模式

IF 1.8 3区社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY

Journal of Aging Studies

Pub Date : 2024-11-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101284

Hans-Georg Eilenberger , Jenny Slatman

Today’s social gerontology of the body consists of an archipelago of different ideas and approaches. Social constructionism, phenomenology and other prominent frameworks come with distinctive and often unexamined assumptions about what a body is and does. These assumptions have given rise to competing understandings of key concepts, such as embodiment and the biological/material/physical body. In this paper, we propose an comprehensive approach to embodiment in later life that takes the phenomenological and existential significance of ambiguity as its starting point. Taking ambiguity seriously has the potential to overcome unfruitful conceptual distinctions. We draw on phenomenological philosophy, both in our methodological and theoretical choices. Our findings are based on an interview study that inquired into various aspects of older people’s lived experience (n=16; aged above 65). Our concrete theoretical frame builds on the notion of “bodily responsivity” derived from the work of Bernhard Waldenfels. Analysing the empirical material through the lens of bodily responsivity, we identify four distinct ways in which participants responded to the unfolding of ageing: the “bodily I,” “bodily it,” “bodily you” and “bodily we.”

当今的身体社会老年学由各种不同的观点和方法组成。社会建构主义、现象学和其他著名的框架都对身体是什么和做什么提出了独特的、往往未经审查的假设。这些假设导致了对体现和生物/物质/物理身体等关键概念的不同理解。在本文中，我们提出了一种全面的晚年体现方式，它以模糊性的现象学和存在论意义为出发点。认真对待模糊性有可能克服毫无结果的概念区分。我们在方法论和理论选择上都借鉴了现象学哲学。我们的研究结果基于一项访谈研究，该研究调查了老年人生活经验的各个方面（人数=16；年龄在 65 岁以上）。我们的具体理论框架建立在伯恩哈德-瓦尔登费尔斯（Bernhard Waldenfels）著作中的 "身体反应性 "概念之上。通过身体反应性的视角分析经验材料，我们确定了参与者对老龄化发展做出反应的四种不同方式："身体上的我"、"身体上的它"、"身体上的你 "和 "身体上的我们"。

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“Aging well” in knowledge-intensive service professions in Sweden – The idealization of youth in neoliberal labor markets 瑞典知识密集型服务行业中的 "老有所为"--新自由主义劳动力市场中的青年理想化

IF 1.8 3区社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY

Journal of Aging Studies

Pub Date : 2024-11-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101281

Christian Maravelias

Governments need individuals to be willing and able to work as they age. Yet, studies of older individuals' employability report that labor markets become more rather than less restrictive when it comes to employing older people. The Swedish labor market is a case in point. Recent surveys and governmental reports show that job seekers' employability begins to decrease when they are in their 40s. Through interviews with jobseekers, employer representatives, and human resources and recruitment specialists, the paper examines the employability of older individuals in Sweden. It focuses on knowledge-intensive service occupations, where seniority and age may be considered strengths rather than mere liabilities. It shows that individuals who are proactive about their professional development and strive to ‘age well’ are still excluded from recruitment processes because of their age. Yet, they are not excluded due to ageism in the form of negative prejudice against older job seekers. Rather, they are excluded because employers and recruiters perceive them as being too focused on professional development and lacking the naïve, ‘just-do-it’ mentality of younger job seekers. Furthermore, their professionalism and experience are viewed as factors that make them stand out as potential threats to the managerial hierarchy. Using a governmentality lens, the study contributes to critical research on the intersection of successful aging and employability discourses by addressing a question this research raises but has left unanswered: why are younger job seekers sometimes preferred over older ones, even when employers know they are less skilled, less experienced, and not as proactive or eager to develop professionally? The analysis reveals a rift in the ableism reinforced by the neoliberal discourses on successful aging and employability. While they explicitly emphasize self-governance and proactivity, they implicitly build on individuals' subjection to hierarchical control. The older job seekers match the explicit precepts of the neoliberal discourses yet are excluded because they fail to match the implicit ones. The analysis, therefore, suggests that age is the factor revealing this divide within neoliberal governmentality.

政府需要个人在年老时愿意并能够工作。然而，对老年人就业能力的研究报告显示，劳动力市场在雇用老年人方面的限制越来越多，而不是越来越少。瑞典的劳动力市场就是一个很好的例子。最近的调查和政府报告显示，求职者的就业能力在 40 多岁时开始下降。本文通过对求职者、雇主代表、人力资源和招聘专家的访谈，研究了瑞典老年人的就业能力。研究重点是知识密集型服务职业，在这些职业中，资历和年龄可被视为优势而不仅仅是负担。研究表明，那些积极主动追求职业发展并努力做到 "老有所为 "的人仍然会因为年龄而被排除在招聘过程之外。然而，他们被排除在外并不是因为年龄歧视，即对老年求职者的负面偏见。相反，他们之所以被排除在外，是因为雇主和招聘人员认为他们过于注重专业发展，缺乏年轻求职者那种天真烂漫、"只管做事 "的心态。此外，他们的专业素养和经验也被视为对管理层构成潜在威胁的因素。本研究采用政府性视角，通过解决本研究提出但尚未回答的一个问题：为什么有时年轻求职者比年长求职者更受青睐，即使雇主知道年轻求职者技能较差、经验较少、不那么积极主动或渴望职业发展？分析揭示了新自由主义关于成功老龄化和就业能力的论述所强化的能力主义的裂痕。这些论述在明确强调自我管理和积极主动的同时，也隐含地将个人置于等级控制之下。老年求职者符合新自由主义话语的明示规定，但却因不符合隐含规定而被排除在外。因此，分析表明，年龄因素揭示了新自由主义政府内部的这种分歧。

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Social engagement among older women in Singapore during the COVID-19 pandemic COVID-19 大流行期间新加坡老年妇女的社会参与情况

IF 1.8 3区社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY

Journal of Aging Studies

Pub Date : 2024-11-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101286

Yaqi Yuan , Shun Yuan Yeo , Kristen Schultz Lee

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the lives of people across the globe. Previous studies on the impact of the pandemic in North American contexts have shown that older adults are particularly vulnerable when facing the challenges brought by the pandemic. However, little is known about older women's experiences during the pandemic explicitly. Even less is known about the Asian contexts which are characterized by different beliefs about family, social solidarity, and the role of the government. How did older Singaporean women navigate the restrictions set by the government during the pandemic and what variations in social engagement were observed? To answer these questions, we analyze two rounds of in-depth interviews with 40 Singaporean older women aged 55 and above using a modified grounded theory approach. We identify three patterns of social engagement: decreased and weakened, intensified, and continuity. It was generally those who reported strong networks who either maintained or further intensified their social engagements. As for the sources of social connection, respondents drew primarily on family, but also on friends and other community resources, in seeking social engagement during the pandemic. The findings from our study uncover the variety of ways in which older Singaporean women responded to the constraints imposed on social engagement in the context of a pandemic, and the connections between social resources and social engagement.

COVID-19 大流行扰乱了全球各地人们的生活。以前在北美进行的关于大流行病影响的研究表明，老年人在面对大流行病带来的挑战时尤其脆弱。然而，人们对老年妇女在大流行期间的经历知之甚少。对亚洲情况的了解就更少了，因为亚洲人对家庭、社会团结和政府角色有着不同的信仰。在大流行病期间，新加坡老年妇女是如何应对政府设置的限制的？为了回答这些问题，我们采用改良的基础理论方法，对 40 名 55 岁及以上的新加坡老年妇女进行了两轮深入访谈。我们发现了三种社会参与模式：减少和削弱、加强和持续。一般来说，那些报告了强大网络的人要么保持要么进一步加强其社会参与。至于社会联系的来源，受访者在大流行病期间寻求社会参与时主要依靠家庭，但也依靠朋友和其他社区资源。我们的研究结果揭示了新加坡老年妇女在大流行病背景下应对社会参与限制的各种方式，以及社会资源和社会参与之间的联系。

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Thinking about the future in older age 思考老年人的未来

IF 1.8 3区社会学 Q2 GERONTOLOGY

Journal of Aging Studies

Pub Date : 2024-11-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101282

Valerie Wright , Melanie Lovatt

Older age is often conceptualised as a stage of life in which the future is considered to be less relevant than the past. This is reflected in literature that emphasises the importance of the past in later life but overlooks the significance of the future. This paper addresses this knowledge gap by analysing narratives that older people write about the future. We do this through secondary analysis of diary entries written by older respondents to the British Mass Observation Project in 1988, in response to a directive about time. The aim of our analysis was to develop conceptual understandings of the relationship between older age and future time. Our thematic analysis identified four main orientations that respondents had towards the future: dreading the future; time running out; taking one day at a time; thinking beyond finitude. Underpinning all of these was a reluctance to contemplate and plan for changes in physical and cognitive health and future care needs, a finding echoed in more recent research. Drawing on critical time perspectives that foreground the fluid, complex and social nature of time, we suggest that reluctance to acknowledge and plan for the future in later life reflects conceptualisations of the future as unpredictable and inseparable from past and present temporalities. This contrasts with more instrumentalist ageing discourses that imply the future can be ‘managed’ from the present. We conclude by calling for a greater repertoire of how we imagine and narrate the future in later life.

老年往往被视为人生的一个阶段，在这个阶段，未来被认为不如过去重要。这反映在一些文献中，它们强调过去在晚年生活中的重要性，却忽视了未来的重要性。本文通过分析老年人关于未来的叙述来填补这一知识空白。我们通过对 1988 年英国大众观察项目的老年受访者根据时间指令所写的日记进行二次分析来实现这一目标。我们分析的目的是要从概念上理解老年人与未来时间之间的关系。我们的主题分析确定了受访者对未来的四种主要取向：害怕未来；时不我待；过一天算一天；超越有限。所有这些取向的基础都是不愿意考虑和规划身体和认知健康的变化以及未来的护理需求，这一结论在最近的研究中得到了回应。我们借鉴了强调时间的流动性、复杂性和社会性的批判性时间观点，认为晚年生活中不愿承认和规划未来反映了对未来的概念化，认为未来是不可预测的，与过去和现在的时间性密不可分。这与那些暗示未来可以从现在开始 "管理 "的工具主义老龄化论述形成了鲜明对比。最后，我们呼吁对晚年生活中的未来进行更多的想象和叙述。

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