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This study explored the perceptions of older mass media consumers with respect to portrayals of older adults in the media and to the processing of appearance symbols and fashion information. The data suggest that the use of television for information processing of this sort is likely to be ...
Getting the message out about cognitive health: a cross-cultural comparison of older adults' media awareness and communication needs on how to maintain a h... PURPOSE: Evidence suggests that physical activity and healthy diets may help to maintain cognitive function, reducing risks of developing ...
Maximizing experiences of successful aging is one important public policy goal given the large number of Baby Boomers aging into older adulthood. Using the communicative ecology model of successful aging, this study examined how older adults' experiences with various media predict their own age-related...
In this paper, we address the following two broad research questions: (a) Do sharing (or non sharing) habits of friends on a social media platform influence an older adult's sharing habits? (b) Is this influence different between male and female older adults? Our research questions will hel...
This article discusses the potential impact of new media on older adults. It outlines trends in population aging and in the use of computers and the Internet. The potential demands of new media on older adults are characterized, and physical and psychological changes in older adults that may aff...
mHealth media, such as applications on smart devices and wearable activity monitors, have shown promise as scalable methods for delivering walking interventions [26, 27]. These media are acceptable among older adults [28, 29], and pilot studies in this age group have demonstrated short-term ...
Negative attitudes about aging have been widespread and films, television, radio, and print media may serve as an important source of socialization or reflect the current views of older adults. This study focused on examination of the frequency of depictions of older men and women in 765 adverti...
Finally, the vertical platform acceleration was a significant predictor of the averaged lower limb muscle activity in the young (r=0.917,P<0.001) and older adults (r=0.931,P<0.001). In conclusion, the older population showed greater increases in lower limb muscle activity during WBV exercise ...
Discussed in terms of ethnolinguistic vitality theory and cultivation theory, the mixed-method approach distinguishes between scholarly and lay interpretation of movie messages. There has been a lot of research on the portrayal of older adults in the media, and most of this research reports that ...