The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted and impacted older adults’ well-being worldwide. Despite the cultural and socio-economic differences many commonalities were found. Studies described the impact of mass media reporting, social connectivity, impact of confinement on well-being, coping, and on discrimina...
Older adults in the CII group also commonly used another meal service, meals at senior centers (21.9%), as well as many other discretionary services, such as PCS (23.1%). Unlike the older adults in the other three groups, who seemed to use one or two particular services most often, the...
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted and impacted older adults’ well-being worldwide. Despite the cultural and socio-economic differences many commonalities were found. Studies described the impact of mass media reporting, social connectivity, impact of confinement on well-being, coping, and on discrimina...
For women providing care to demented husbands who are violent, in the absence of an understanding of domestic violence, his violent behavior is likely to be interpreted by health professionals as “responsive behavior,” an attempt to communicate rather than to cause harm. The definition is a dan...
Further, mental and physical factors were recognised as important for health as early as the 1940s when they were part of the WHO’s definition of good health [44]. However, there are other definitions of health, for example that of Huber et al. [12] where health is determined by the ...
Definition Self-employment among older adults refers to individuals aged 50 or 55 and above (Halvorsen and Morrow-Howell 2017; OECD 2013), who practice a professional activity for the purpose of gain without being an employee, thereby being responsible for their own tax and insurance as well as...
Learn about adult and older adult development theories, including theories proposed by Roger Gould, Daniel Levinson, William Perry, and Carl Jung. Understand that growth does not end when childhood ends, and people learn and evolve through all their years as adults. ...
Screening for Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults: An Evidence Update for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Evidence Synthesis No. 189. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2019. AHRQ publication 19-05257-EF-1. 17. Patnode CD, Perdue LA, Rossom RC, et al....
A tool to assess nutritional status in older persons was really needed. It took 5 years to design the MNA® (Mini Nutrition Assessment) tool, complete
Self-rated health in older adults with schizophrenia: advances and future directionsThe 1945 World Health Organization definition of health as a "complete state of physical, mental, and social wellbeing and not merely the lack of disease or disability" (WHO, 1945) implies that any holistic ...