Social Work with Older Adults, CourseSmart eTextbook, 4/EKathleen McInnisDittrich
Presents a strengths-based approach of social work with older adults. The fourth edition of Social Work with Older Adults provides a comprehensive treatment of a strengths-based approach to the major areas of social work with older adults. The text examines the basics of biopsychosocial functioning...
AIM: Social participation provides health benefits for older adults. However, there is the need to identify whether higher social participation is associated with older adults being more physically active and less sedentary (sitting time). We examined the associations of social participation with physica...
Still, social media may preserve cognitive function and psychological well-being in this population, the researchers said. "This is critical because the onset of pain can often lead to a downward spiral of social isolation and depression, resulting in adverse outcomes for the health of older adul...
aIhopetofindafearoflosingme Ihopetofindafearoflosingme [translate] aInvolving the Social Network – Social Support in Caring for Teenagers and Young Adults (TYAs) With Cancer Involving the Social Network – Social Support in Caring for Teenagers and Young Adults (TYAs) With Cancer [translate] ...
However, no studies have been designed to immediately examine these mediation associations, which limited the applications of treating social support as an intervention to improving cognitive function in older adults, especially in those with lower odds of participating in outdoor physical activities. ...
Social network typologies of Hong Kong older adults and associations with psychological well-beingWe investigated if robust social network typologies found in Western samples were replicated in a sample of 990 Hong Kong Chinese older adults, stratified by age, gender and marital status. We extended ...
Although recent developments in the video game industry have heightened the need to involve players in the design process, the research to date has tended to focus on participatory design with children rather than older adults. Moreover, due to the lack of information regarding gamers' social ...
The most-used social media site among teenagers and young adults in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2020 was YouTube. A survey carried out by AudienceProject revealed that 82 percent of 15 to 25-year-olds said they used the video-sharing platform, making it more popular than Facebook, Whats...
aOlder adults generally report greater satisfaction with family members over time (Carstensen, 1992) and are more satisfied with the size of their social networks than younger adults (Lansford et al., 1998). Indeed, some studies have found that older adults report less loneliness compared with yo...