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Rowan, James Thomas. "Digital family portraits support for aging in place /." Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005, 2005. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-08242005-180131/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006.
Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Committee Chair ; Gregory Abowd, Committee Member ; Jim Foley, Committee Member ; Mark Guzdial, Committee Member ; Wendy Rogers, Committee Member. Includes bibliographical references.

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Simpson-Young, Virginia. "Meat trays, marginalisation and the mechanisms of social capital creation: An ethnographic study of a licensed social club and its older users." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/4049.

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Alongside informal networks of friends and family, formal social groupings such as voluntary associations are valued by older people as opportunities for engagement. In Australia, one such grouping is the licensed social (or ‘registered’) club. Approximately 20 per cent of all older Australians, and 80 per cent of older residents of the state of New South Wales, actively participate in such clubs. Despite this, older people’s registered club participation has received little scholarly attention. This ethnographic study of one particular registered club aimed to discover the nature, meaning and role of club participation for its older members. Social capital existing in club-based networks emerged as a further investigative focus, and its mechanisms and outcomes were examined. Participant observation and in-depth interviewing were the main data collection methods used. Data analysis procedures included thematic analysis (based loosely on grounded theory methodology), as well as the more contextsensitive narrative analysis and key-words-in-context analysis. The study found that club participation enabled older members to maintain valued social networks, self-reliance and a sense of autonomy. Social networks were characterised by social capital of the bonding type, being largely homogeneous with respect to age, gender, (working) class and cultural background. Strong cohesive bonds were characterised by intimacy and reciprocity, and possessed norms including equality and the norm of tolerance and inclusiveness. These helped to minimise conflict and build cohesiveness, while protecting older club-goers from increasing marginalisation within the club. Peer grouping within this mainstream setting may have shielded the older club-goers from stigma associated with participation in old-age specific groups. The nature and scale of registered club participation amongst older Australians points to their unique and important role. The findings of this research indicate that – for at least this group of older men and women - club use is a major contributor to maintaining social connectedness and a sense of self as self-reliant, autonomous and capable. In the context of an ageing population, Australia’s registered clubs feature in the mosaic of resources available to older people, and their communities, for the creation of social capital.

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Simpson-Young, Virginia. "Meat trays, marginalisation and the mechanisms of social capital creation an ethnographic study of a licensed social club and its older users /." Faculty of Health Sciences, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/4049.

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Alongside informal networks of friends and family, formal social groupings such as voluntary associations are valued by older people as opportunities for engagement. In Australia, one such grouping is the licensed social (or ‘registered’) club. Approximately 20 per cent of all older Australians, and 80 per cent of older residents of the state of New South Wales, actively participate in such clubs. Despite this, older people’s registered club participation has received little scholarly attention. This ethnographic study of one particular registered club aimed to discover the nature, meaning and role of club participation for its older members. Social capital existing in club-based networks emerged as a further investigative focus, and its mechanisms and outcomes were examined. Participant observation and in-depth interviewing were the main data collection methods used. Data analysis procedures included thematic analysis (based loosely on grounded theory methodology), as well as the more contextsensitive narrative analysis and key-words-in-context analysis. The study found that club participation enabled older members to maintain valued social networks, self-reliance and a sense of autonomy. Social networks were characterised by social capital of the bonding type, being largely homogeneous with respect to age, gender, (working) class and cultural background. Strong cohesive bonds were characterised by intimacy and reciprocity, and possessed norms including equality and the norm of tolerance and inclusiveness. These helped to minimise conflict and build cohesiveness, while protecting older club-goers from increasing marginalisation within the club. Peer grouping within this mainstream setting may have shielded the older club-goers from stigma associated with participation in old-age specific groups. The nature and scale of registered club participation amongst older Australians points to their unique and important role. The findings of this research indicate that – for at least this group of older men and women - club use is a major contributor to maintaining social connectedness and a sense of self as self-reliant, autonomous and capable. In the context of an ageing population, Australia’s registered clubs feature in the mosaic of resources available to older people, and their communities, for the creation of social capital.

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O'Reilly, Evelyn Marie. "Issues in talk about aging in the United States /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1991. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/10262003.

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Thesis (Ed.D.) -- Teachers College, Columbia University, 1991.
Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Herve' Varenne. Dissertation Committee: Paul Byers. Includes bibliographical references: (leaf 148-154).

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Tanaka, Kimiko. "Aging in Japan importance of social integration /." Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2008.

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Miller, Elizabeth Jill. "Burden of care: Ageing in urban Japan and China, the family and the State." Thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2002. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/62b59aa5e8cc5cfbda5bc47194b8aad083654c58ee1e900e2d64b1fdf4f0fbc6/1097376/65001_downloaded_stream_226.pdf.

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This thesis examines how rapid demographic, social and economic changes are impacting on traditional care for the urban aged in China and Japan as both experience world record rates of ageing caused by greater longevity and lower birth rates. The challenge for their governments is to foster active contribution by the healthy aged to society and protection for the frail aged. China lags behind Japan in special treatment for senior citizens. The manner in which these two countries handle the ageing of their populations could provide valuable lessons for Australia in the future.

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Kiraly, Zoltan. "Pastoral care of older adults." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Wilson, Richard A. "ECHO aging in place communities /." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2009. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.

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Holmes, Bernadette J. "Victimization of the elderly : an analysis of the level of social functioning in the community : an exploratory study /." The Ohio State University, 1985. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487260531955616.

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Miles, Julie Ann. "Attitudes toward old people and beliefs about aging: A generational study." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1009.

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Attitudes toward the elderly were examined in three generations through analysis of media use, gender, contact with elderly, age, factual knowledge about aging, and parental influence on attitude formation. The results revealed that age, factual knowledge, perceived ageism in mass media and parental influence were significantly related to attitude toward the elderly.

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Matla, Oliver T. "Aging with dignity : elderly housing in an urban setting." Virtual Press, 2000. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1164839.

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The living situation of the older generation is a matter of increasing social concern. Demographic changes are leading to larger proportions of elderly people in the populations of the developed world. Tied into this evolution and even more important are the processes of social change - in particular the loosening of traditional family bonds - which make the living situation of older people extremely precarious once they begin to become frail.One aspect of the living situation of older people, namely their housing situation, or more specifically the question of housing and care, has long been neglected or mainly answered with uniform solutions of institutionalized housing for the elderly. Today, these cannot be seen as the only answer to the diverse needs of elderly people, especially since the housing situation has a very strong influence in determining their degree of self-sufficiency. The increased need for housing suited to the needs of elderly people is the impetus for additional investigation, improvement of present conditions, and studies of future developments. The resulting knowledge and impact on the built environment will be very important to academia and the future education of all environmental design professionals as well as society in general.The purpose of this investigation is to illustrate the significance and relationship of socialand spatial requirements within the concept of living and care, because only the simultaneous addressing of these conditions allows for 'aging with dignity'. The existing demographic situation as well as the inadequate housing situation for the elderly makes it important to investigate the provision of health care, social services, and everyday necessities along with a well-designed architectural and urban development framework.This paper consists of three main parts. The first two parts focus on the research of theoretical and practical design aspects as they pertain to current thinking in elderly care and assisted living. This is accomplished through an investigation of published international examples. In addition, valuable information about the housing needs and desires of elderly people was gathered by exploring four built examples in the United States and Germany, thus helping to identify the framework of the architectural exploration.The third part documents the development and process of both an operational and design concept for elderly housing in a selected urban community. The site is located in Potsdam, Germany, within an existing urban block of the old city core. The architectural design attempts to express the idea of 'aging in dignity' and includes thoughts about the interrelation of new and existing residential units as well as their impact on the context.The aim of the study is to ascertain information about the effects of diverse, networked and, in part, innovative facilities and services on the independent living capabilities of the elderly, and the control over one's living environment. Promoting independent living, this study should help to determine the extent to which these services could be provided.
Department of Architecture

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Fleming, Alfred Andrew. "Older Men Working it Out A strong face of ageing and disability." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/852.

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This hermeneutical study interprets and describes the phenomena of ageing and living with disability. The lived experiences of 14 older men and the horizon of this researcher developed an understanding of what it is like for men to grow old and, for some, to live with the effects of a major disability. The study is grounded in the philosophical hermeneutics of Gadamer and framed in the context of embodiment, masculinity, and narrative. I conducted multiple in-depth interviews with older men aged from 67 to 83 years of age. Seven of the participants had experienced a stroke and I was able to explore the phenomenon of disability with them. Through thematic and narrative analyses of the textual data interpretations were developed that identified common meanings and understandings of the phenomena of ageing and disability. These themes and narratives reveal that the men's understandings are at odds with conventional negative views of ageing and disability. These older men are 'alive and kicking', they voice counternarratives to the dominant construction of ageing as decline and weakness, and have succeeded in remaking the lifeworld after stroke. Overall I have come to understand an overarching meaning of older men 'working it out' as illustrative of a strong face of ageing and disability. Older men seek out opportunities to participate actively in community life and, despite the challenges of ageing and disability, lead significant and meaningful lives. These findings challenge and extend our limited understandings of men's experiences of ageing and living with disability. This interpretation offers gendered directions for policy development, clinical practice, and future research.

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Fleming, Alfred Andrew. "Older Men Working it Out A strong face of ageing and disability." University of Sydney. Behavioural and Community Health Sciences, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/852.

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This hermeneutical study interprets and describes the phenomena of ageing and living with disability. The lived experiences of 14 older men and the horizon of this researcher developed an understanding of what it is like for men to grow old and, for some, to live with the effects of a major disability. The study is grounded in the philosophical hermeneutics of Gadamer and framed in the context of embodiment, masculinity, and narrative. I conducted multiple in-depth interviews with older men aged from 67 to 83 years of age. Seven of the participants had experienced a stroke and I was able to explore the phenomenon of disability with them. Through thematic and narrative analyses of the textual data interpretations were developed that identified common meanings and understandings of the phenomena of ageing and disability. These themes and narratives reveal that the men�s understandings are at odds with conventional negative views of ageing and disability. These older men are �alive and kicking�, they voice counternarratives to the dominant construction of ageing as decline and weakness, and have succeeded in remaking the lifeworld after stroke. Overall I have come to understand an overarching meaning of older men �working it out� as illustrative of a strong face of ageing and disability. Older men seek out opportunities to participate actively in community life and, despite the challenges of ageing and disability, lead significant and meaningful lives. These findings challenge and extend our limited understandings of men�s experiences of ageing and living with disability. This interpretation offers gendered directions for policy development, clinical practice, and future research.

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Herrin, Judith Mitchell. "Correlates of a sense of control of aging." Thesis, This resource online, 1989. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08252008-162014/.

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Mabra, Melvin W. "A workshop to reduce the anxiety of aging among senior adults of Camp Branch Baptist Church." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.

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Luk, Hoi-ying Victoria. "How does population aging affect disease control among old age from a public health perspective." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42997495.

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Varshney, Swati Kelly Kimberly. "Predictors of successful aging associations between social network patterns, life satisfaction, depression, subjective health and leisure time activity for older adults in India /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-3910.

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Jackson, Gregory A. "Developing and conducting a seminar to help the members of Central Baptist Church prepare for retirement." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Honeyfield, Georgia. "From wilderness to community a project to include crucial faith traditions in the pastoral care of long term care residents /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Porter, James D. "Developing older adults in the local church for the purpose of ministry." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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Bradley, Leonard E. "The church and its seniors, a reciprocal ministry." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Wong, Wai-kwan. "Effectiveness of the government in facilitating "Ageing-in-place" principle in public rental housing estates /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B40698130.

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Tomlin, Vicky. "Age group and gender differences in fears of aging /." Full text available online, 2006. http://www.lib.rowan.edu/find/theses.

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Rozario, Suzanna R. "Evaluation of Nutrition Risk and Body Mass Index in Maine Seniors." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2006. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/RozarioSR2006.pdf.

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Hou, Miaomiao. "Health-related lifestyle, socioeconomic mediation, and successful aging : evidence from China /." View abstract or full-text, 2009. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?SOSC%202009%20HOU.

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Walker, Angela. "Stereotype beliefs, contextual age, and knowledge of aging in the elderly." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2003. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=343.

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Russell, Helen. "The lived experience of laterlife computer learners /." Electronic version, 2005. http://adt.lib.uts.edu.au/public/adt-NTSM20051214.180901/index.html.

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Zaidi, Asghar. "Well-being of older people in ageing societies." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.420442.

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陸凱縈 and Hoi-ying Victoria Luk. "How does population aging affect disease control among old age from a public health perspective." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B42997495.

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Dionigi, Rylee Ann. "Competing for Life: Older People and Competitive Sport." Thesis, Connect to this title online, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/24895.

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In Western society competing in physically demanding sport is not considered the domain of older people. For the majority of the twentieth century older people were stereotyped as frail, socially withdrawn and dependent on health and social welfare systems. Competitive athletes on the other hand are commonly viewed as being young, strong, aggressive, physically competent and independent. Although today’s older generation are encouraged to be physically active, society does not recognise serious competition or physically intense sports as age-appropriate activities for them. If older people choose to participate in sport they are expected to be doing it to have fun, make friends and keep fit. The growing leisure phenomenon of older athletes who compete to win, achieve a personal best, break world records or push their bodies to the limit presents a challenge to these orthodoxies. The purpose of this thesis is to explain why competing in physically demanding sport is significant to some older people given the accepted view that it is not their domain. In particular, the thesis explores the multiple ways in which a group of older people negotiate conflicting discourses of both sport and ageing, as well as the contradiction between their identity as an athlete and their ageing bodies, as they talk about and experience competing in physically strenuous individual and team sports. The key themes through which this negotiation process is played out relate to friendship and fun, competition, youthfulness, and the ageing body. It is revealed that the process of competing in sport can be simultaneously empowering and problematic at both the individual and social levels. The thesis draws on insights from post-structural theories of resistance and empowerment, traditional and postmodern understandings of identity management in later life, and life-stage theories to interpret the phenomenon of older people competing in physically demanding sport. To achieve the above aims, a qualitative study exploring the experiences of a group of Masters athletes aged over 55 years who regularly compete in physically strenuous individual or team sports was undertaken. It was found that despite age-appropriate norms, competition is significant to many of the participants. Study participants embrace the ideologies and practices of competitive sport and use them to define ageing in terms of youthfulness, physical ability and personal empowerment. Simultaneously however, a denial of, or desperate resistance to, the physical ageing process accompanies this feeling of empowerment. The participants in this study were not only competing in sport, but also "competing for life". It is argued that a multi-faceted and conflicting interplay of resistance and conformity, empowerment and denial, identity and the ageing body is embedded in the phenomenon of older people competing in physically demanding sport. These contradictory findings expose alternative ways of understanding sport, competition, ageing and older people in the West and raise many questions requiring further investigation. The study also points to potential applications of these findings to policy-making and provision of leisure services for older people.
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Dionigi, Rylee Ann. "Competing for Life: Older People and Competitive Sport." Diss., Connect to this title online, 2004. http://www.newcastle.edu.au/services/library/adt/public/adt-NNCU20041203.213850/index.html.

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Danely, Jason Allen. "Departure and return abandonment, memorial and aging in Japan /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3324442.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2008.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed October 3, 2008). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 364-391).

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Ong, Rachel Kien Ling. "Ageing in Australia : financial independence and work disincentive issues /." Access via Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 2004. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20050526.150529.

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Greasley-Adams, Corinne S. G. "Work Activities of older people : beyond paid employment." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/6504.

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In recent years much has been made of active and productive ageing policies, with the attempt to promote a more positive image of ageing. Despite this, negative representations of ageing and conceptualisations of older people as a ‘burden’ persist. This thesis presents an argument that these negative images are intertwined with common understandings of work, the frequent equating of this to paid employment within the field of social gerontology, and the reliance upon cessation of work in determining the beginning of old age. With reference to the wider literature in the sociology of work, an argument is presented that determines why it is essential to challenge those taken-for-granted assumptions about older people and work. Reflecting upon the findings from an exploratory and qualitative research project, which focuses upon the perspective of the older people themselves, attention is given to the detail of what should be encapsulated into new understandings of work. Within the thesis it is argued that there are many activities undertaken by the older person, which should be thought of as work, including (but not limited to) paid employment, volunteering, care, attendance at social clubs, undertaking sport and physical activity. Some of these activities might more intuitively be thought of as acts of leisure. However, it is evidenced within this thesis that there are fuzzy and blurred boundaries between leisure and work - older people leisure at work and work at leisure. The recognition of these blurring boundaries is one aspect that must be incorporated into re-conceptualisations of work. The thesis demonstrates how the work of older people transcends different socio-economic spheres and there are multiple interrelations existing between different activities. Whilst this last point resonates with the approach of some authors in the sociology of work, they have never been incorporated within the field of social gerontology. Through this analysis, and promoting a new way through which the activities of older people might be incorporated within the rubric of work, it is hoped that ageism might be challenged in a similar vein to the way in which feminist researchers once challenged sexism in relation to work and housework. This thesis reflects upon how we need to identify and conceptualise the third age in light of the findings. It highlights how the working lives of older people are shaped through a process of negotiation between social expectations within current political and economic contexts, influences from key historical events and social changes, and the desire for freedom, autonomy and choice. Age period cohort is crucial in determining the world of work, and more generally how ageing might be experienced. Through its unique approach, and the lessons learnt within this thesis, a theoretical framework is provided to assist in future comprehensive studies of both work and ageing. Overall, this thesis makes significant contributions to understandings of work and ageing following the consideration of two schools of thought (i.e. sociology of work and social gerontology), which previously have been infrequent companions.

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Salisbury, E. Catherine. "A new spiritual vision of aging facing the future without fear /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Kanamoto, Itsuko. "Activating ethnicity : an anthropological study of aging among Japanese immigrants in the United States /." view abstract or download file of text, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9963447.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2000.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 341-372). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users. Address: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9963447.

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Hillinger, Hubertus J. "Loud silence : aging and environment." Virtual Press, 1997. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1041807.

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The purpose of this paper is to present, illustrate and systematize documentation on projected and existing international examples and housing conditions for an aging population and to question the architect's role in terms of person-environment relations.As architects we often base our design on assumptions. A thorough training in the techniques of systematic observation can provide information, and data for improvements and necessities.The paper consists of two main parts. The first part focuses on research of theoretical and practical design aspects through a retrospective look at the history and the physiology of aging.Major goals are:• To increase the knowledge of person-environment interactions through a better understanding of behavioral systems of older people (environment as a stimulant).• To examine environmental attributes constituting an appropriate environment for an independent life (therapeutic aspects of design).• To identify necessities and ways of filling gaps in the relationship between theoretical design aspects and their practical application.•To refelect on historical aspects of aging by showing the ambivalence and changeability in man's systems of values.The second part of the paper considers several international innovative housing and living arrangements in an illustrative way.
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Rodger, H. "Senior adult ministry for lay leaders." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Joseph, Anjali. "Where older people walk assessing the relationship between physical environmental factors and walking behavior of older adults /." Diss., Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006, 2006. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-04072006-103929/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006.
Zimring, Craig, Committee Chair ; Kohl, Harold W., Committee Member ; Bafna, Sonit, Committee Member ; Sparling, Phillip, Committee Member ; Day, Kristen, Committee Member.

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Cheung, Karen Siu Lan. "Scalar expansion and normal longevity in Hong Kong /." View Abstract or Full-Text, 2003. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?SOSC%202003%20CHEUNG.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2003.
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Parker, Helen Elizabeth. "Spirituality and Ageing : The Spiritual Narratives of Contemporary Older Australians." Thesis, Griffith University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/368155.

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The current research interest in spirituality and ageing is in part driven by the need to debate the increasing social and economic impact of ageing populations in Western societies. Australia is actively participating in these debates that in part, discuss the productive role that spirituality might assume for older Australians. However recent scholarship has provided limited data about the specific features of older Australians’ spirituality. Moreover the relevance of current disciplinary discourses of spirituality in terms of the spiritual experiences of older individuals also remains largely untested in the literature. This study seeks to address the research problem of the relative lack of data available on the accounts of spirituality of older contemporary Australian individuals and on the associated relevance of current disciplinary discourses of spirituality. The research problem is significant in that without evidence based accounts of the spiritual experiences of older Australians appropriately targeted future research, policy formulation and practices across a range of social contexts will be compromised or limited. The older Australians in this study are a self-selected sample; they are aged 65 and over; and have identified some personal experiences as spiritual. This study employs a qualitative interdisciplinary bricolage research design in association; (i) with Denzin’s interpretive interactionism to collect and analyse data over several encounters on the narrated spiritual experiences of these older Australians; and (ii) with the method of narrative literary criticism to establish thematic patterns in Scriptural narratives associated with the old protagonists of Abraham, Job, Simeon and Anna. The interpretive interaction study of contemporary narrated experiences reports significant new data which has been consolidated into a contemporary Australian cohort generated model of spirituality comprising content, sequence and dynamics as features. The narrative literary criticism study also makes a significant contribution to scholarship.
Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Humanities
Arts, Education and Law
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Chiu, Sammy Wai-sang. "The family care of Chinese old people : a study of Chinese communities in London." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1991. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1794/.

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This research examines the financial relationships between Chinese older people and their family, the living arrangements of older people, the needs for care and the provision of care in Hong Kong as well as in London. It points out the myth of the traditional Chinese extended family which existed only among the gentry and the elites and the mistake which relates the provision of care to the existence and prevalence of the Chinese extended family. It is argued that westernisation and industrialisation have not washed away the caring capacity of the Chinese family. The research showed that Chinese old people in the two places maintained an active financial relationship with their children, and the majority still lived with their families, which reflected not so much an absence of alternative but a matter of preference. Help in such aspects as personal care, household maintenance and social survival continued to be provided by the family. However, the research also showed that a new pattern of relationships between Chinese old people and their children and grandchildren have emerged, and a unique pattern in the division of labour in care within the family has also been developed. It is argued that the basis of care in the Chinese context has undergone reconstruction. Five interlinked factors are important the reciprocal contributions of the Chinese old people and the family members; the affective compatibility between the old people and the helpers; the obligatory compatibility between the two parties; and the sanction of normative expectations. All these conditions are subject to the intervention of state policies. The reconstruction of the basis of care showed that the classical Chinese thesis which suggested that being old must be respected could no longer be upheld. Instead, the state has, through various social policies, shaped and sustain the help seeking and provision of the old people and their families.

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Vannice, Jeremy M. "Aging and architecture : community rather than isolation." Virtual Press, 2005. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1327787.

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This study has presented in detail statistics and research related to the elderly and aging population and the many housing options that are currently available to this age demographic. The research has shown that Assisted Living Facilities are rapidly becoming the preferred method of Elder Care in the US, so much so that they have begun to offer nursing care which is typically offered only by nursing homes. Further exploration demonstrated that there is a lack of consistency in these facilities, and the evidence points to the need for a new model of Assisted Living that will focus more on the individual while still providing necessary care. This discovery has lead to the concept of creating an Assisted Living Development as the new model to be considered by future designers and Assisted Living planners. The creation of this model has helped to outline a new methodology for the planning and organization of Assisted Living.
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Yoon, AhYoung. "Aging and Arts Policy: Interrogating Perceptions of Older People in South Korea." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1503016550067467.

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Goldhaber, Tanya Sofia. "Motivating technology adoption in the ageing population : understanding the effects of initial experience and gender." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648827.

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Hammond, Margaret Fay. "The symptomatology of depression in elderly physically ill people." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367249.

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Barrett-Lennard, Julie. "Responding pastorally to the ageing population: with a proposed training programme for clergy and lay pastoral workers." Thesis, Barrett-Lennard, Julie (2006) Responding pastorally to the ageing population: with a proposed training programme for clergy and lay pastoral workers. Masters by Research thesis, Murdoch University, 2006. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/204/.

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The increased longevity in contemporary western society is impacting on many service and caring organisations in that they are needing to find ways of responding to the increasing number of older persons who need support. The Church is not immune from this as statistics demonstrate that the age demographic within the Church is rapidly changing to include many more older persons. However, evidence is strong that the Church to date has not been as alert as it could have been to the implications of the ageing population, nor has it been awake to the potential available within adult ministry. Therefore scholars and gerontologists are strident in their attempts to wake the Church from its slumber with respect to responding to the ageing population. The impetus of this research was to determine how alert the Anglican Diocese of Perth is to this rapidly increasing age demographic, and how well equipped its clergy and lay pastoral workers are to respond to the increasing number of older persons both within the Church and within society. To achieve this, a survey was conducted amongst a selection of clergy and lay pastoral workers in the Diocese of Perth. As part of the survey, comments were sought from participants on how important they believed training in ministry to older persons was for them, and what factors would enable and encourage them to attend training in this area. The literature reviewed for this research, the survey results, and the ensuing discussion combine to underline the need for ministry to older persons to be taken seriously by the Church. As a way of stimulating interest, and equipping clergy and lay pastoral workers, in the area of pastoral care of older persons, this thesis provides the structure of a training programme that it is envisaged will be offered to the Anglican Diocese of Perth.

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Barrett-Lennard, Julie. "Responding pastorally to the ageing population : with a proposed training programme for clergy and lay pastoral workers /." Barrett-Lennard, Julie (2006) Responding pastorally to the ageing population: with a proposed training programme for clergy and lay pastoral workers. Masters by Research thesis, Murdoch University, 2006. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/204/.

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The increased longevity in contemporary western society is impacting on many service and caring organisations in that they are needing to find ways of responding to the increasing number of older persons who need support. The Church is not immune from this as statistics demonstrate that the age demographic within the Church is rapidly changing to include many more older persons. However, evidence is strong that the Church to date has not been as alert as it could have been to the implications of the ageing population, nor has it been awake to the potential available within adult ministry. Therefore scholars and gerontologists are strident in their attempts to wake the Church from its slumber with respect to responding to the ageing population. The impetus of this research was to determine how alert the Anglican Diocese of Perth is to this rapidly increasing age demographic, and how well equipped its clergy and lay pastoral workers are to respond to the increasing number of older persons both within the Church and within society. To achieve this, a survey was conducted amongst a selection of clergy and lay pastoral workers in the Diocese of Perth. As part of the survey, comments were sought from participants on how important they believed training in ministry to older persons was for them, and what factors would enable and encourage them to attend training in this area. The literature reviewed for this research, the survey results, and the ensuing discussion combine to underline the need for ministry to older persons to be taken seriously by the Church. As a way of stimulating interest, and equipping clergy and lay pastoral workers, in the area of pastoral care of older persons, this thesis provides the structure of a training programme that it is envisaged will be offered to the Anglican Diocese of Perth.

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Wacks, V. Quinton. "Successful aging, coping and learning : a case study of two diverse groups of older adults /." Diss., This resource online, 1990. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07102007-142512/.

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Hall, Jane. "Television and positive ageing in Australia." Thesis, Hall, Jane (2005) Television and positive ageing in Australia. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2005. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/92/.

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As a means to engage with others, television offers the viewer a great deal. In Australia commercial TV is particularly popular, and many turn daily to this cultural arena which graphically portrays our shared concerns and values. Viewers are kept informed and entertained, advertisements display the luxuries and necessities that direct lifestyle choices,and local and global stories are presented for mutual consideration. Audiences are connected not only with products,personalities and newsmakers, but also with fellow viewers who are sharing the experience. Retired people take particular advantage of this multi-faceted link with the outside world, when additional leisure time and reduced social and physical mobility create spaces that can be filled with the narratives and 'para-social' connections of a medium that transports the world to the viewer. Yet one definitive statement that can be made about popular television is that older people are rarely acknowledged and often ridiculed. An easily accessible and valuable communications medium marginalises those most dependent upon it - for information and entertainment, but also, I would argue, dependent upon it to help facilitate key recommendations of the 'successful ageing' formula. Authoritative prescriptions for ageing well emphasise the benefits of social engagement, with television helping to facilitate this by involving the viewer with local concerns and wider accounts of human enterprise. Yet the popular media often presume that older people are no longer viable consumers or citizens, thus alienating them from mediated stories and populations. 'Success', according to commercial media sensibilities, is equated with youthfulness and economic means - twin attributes rarely associated with retired people. As a result, advertising is directed primarily at young, middle-class audiences, and the TV programmes to hook their attention are often typecast with similarly youthful protagonists. Older viewers are taken for granted and rarely acknowledged, and more disconcertingly, stereotyped and ridiculed to empower younger viewers. This dissertation seeks to explore these issues from a sociological perspective, primarily within the Australian context. Research strategies include a detailed analysis of the role of television in older people's lives and how they are portrayed, with results aligned with 'successful ageing' guidelines. Included in this approach is a study of how older people are portrayed on commercial TV in Australia, and a discussion of findings. The final section includes a chapter which consists of an examination of negative media portrayals from a political and human rights perspective, and the final chapter which asks how the oldest and frailest may by impacted by the cultural devaluation of old age.

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