Advance Care Planning in Norwegian nursing homes—Who is it for?
Publication date: August 2016 Source:Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 38 Author(s): Lisbeth Thoresen, Rolf Ahlzén, Kari Nyheim Solbrække Advance care planning (ACP) is an international concept for improving patient autonomy and communication in the context of anticipated deterioration and end-of-life care. In a preparatory conversation, health care professionals facilitate one or more conversations where nursing home residents are invited to reflect on, and articulate wishes and preferences concerning future medical treatment and end-of-life care. Our aim with this study was to increase knowledge of existing AC...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - May 4, 2016 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Old, down and out? Appearance, body work and positive ageing among elderly south korean women
This article offers an as yet unexplored dimension of our current understanding of the ageing body in the context of contemporary South Korea. Drawing on interviews with twenty elderly women living in the greater Seoul metropolitan area, this article explores the role of appearance, body work, and the presentation of self in the women's everyday lived experiences. Existing research on the ageing female body in South Korea has primarily focused on the so-called noin munjae (‘the elderly issue’) discourse, within which the ageing body is framed as passive, undesirable, or out-of-control. Contrary to this, the elderly wom...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - May 4, 2016 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Reconceptualizing retirement: A status-based approach
Publication date: August 2016 Source:Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 38 Author(s): David B. Hershenson The one thing on which essentially all retirement scholars agree is that there is no generally accepted definition of the term “retirement.” Hence, it is not surprising that a plethora of competing models of the stages of retirement has been generated. To cut this Gordian knot, this paper proposes that the concept of statuses, which are not necessarily mutually exclusive or sequential, replace the idea of stages. Statuses better reflect observed human behavior and are more open to multicultural application, thu...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - May 4, 2016 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Mid and later life care work migration: Patterns of re-organising informal care obligations in Central and Eastern Europe
This study aims to explore the patterns of re-organising these informal care obligations (childcare, long-term care and domestic work) in the respective home country and to analyse the factors that determine the re-organisation. Methods The study builds on qualitative interviews with 20 migrant care workers aged 40years and over, 9 Romanian and 11 Slovakian women providing 24-hour care work in Austria. Results All interviewees commute in 2- to 4-weekly shifts between the home country and Austria and report multiple informal care obligations towards family members in the respective home country. In most cases, members o...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - April 1, 2016 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Relative prospects of children as they age: Canadians and Americans in midlife in the great recession frame future generations
Publication date: April 2016 Source:Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 37 Author(s): Susan A. McDaniel, Amber Gazso, Karen A. Duncan Studies of intergenerational relations in aging and changing families often focus on the present, how generations interact, relate or depend on each other in families. Less often is the focus on the prospective, on projected perceptions of life course prospects for future generations as they age. In this paper, part of a large multi-method project, we adopt this focus. We rely on interviews conducted in 2013 with midlife respondents in two socioeconomic classes in comparable cities in...
Source: Journal of Aging Studies - April 1, 2016 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
