The aim of this study is to explore the attitudes of nurse students in Turkey, towards ageing and elderliness and to determine differences in terms of year of study. The study uses a comparative ...design with data collected from February to March 2020. A random sample of 306 nursing students was selected. A demographic data form and the Attitudes toward Ageing and Elderliness Scale (ATAES) were used to collect data. Of the students, 47.7% reported that they cared for older adults in their clinical practice and 53.6% confirmed that they had successfully completed the theoretical lessons on elderly care. Theoretical education (Hedge’s g = 0.23) and clinical practice (Hedge’s g = 0.34) on elderly care have minimal effects on the attitudes toward ageing and elderliness. Theoretical education and clinical practice as conducted currently in a university in Turkey, failed to improve attitudes toward ageing and elderliness. Keywords: ageing, elderliness, nursing, nursing education, nursing students
The article presents the results of the theoretical and methodological substantiation and empirical verification of the approach to investigation the changes in elderly’s personality features during ...postemployment period. Theoretical analysis revealed that professional activity should be considered as the significant predictor of differences in perception and adaptation of the elderly. To meet the purpose of the study the sample of research participants was split into two subgroups (employed and unemployed seniors) to reveal changes in their personality features. Results of the empirical study confirmed the significant differences in dispositional traits and other personality features among groups of employed and unemployed seniors (adaptation, self-perception, acceptation of other people, internality, dominance, time orientation, autonomy, spontaneity, self– understanding, autosympathy, sociability, flexibility in communication, self-actualization appeared to be higher among employed seniors comparing to unemployed). Employed elderlies also showed higher level on such scales as: extraversion, agreeableness, self-control, emotional stability, expressiveness in comparison to the group of unemployed ones. The group of unemployed seniors tend to experience higher level of emotional comfort, but at the same time they are characterized by high level of anxiety, frustration, loneliness, aggression and rigidity. The multiple correlation-regression analysis yielded the following hierarchy of the most informative aspects of the elderly’s adaptation. They include: spontaneity and self-realization. The findings open up new prospects for identifying the potential personality precursors of adaptation of the elderly people.
Objective
This study aimed to analyze the influence and measurement of the relationship and interaction between the elderly lifestyles after the appearance of the SARS-CoV-2 variant and the factors ...analyzed comprised life satisfaction levels, social relationships, and daily-life activities.
Methods
The study population was ≥ 65 in Castile-La Mancha (
N
= 390,221). The research design was quantitative and arose from primary data collected via an ad hoc survey carried out through the Computer Assisted Telephone Interview system by randomly stratified sampling. The sample size was made up of 1,065 cases, and the participants were selected through a random sampling stratified by gender quotas (55.40% women; 44.60% men), age (
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=
76
.
56
), province, and habitat size.
Results
The results obtained revealed two main lifestyles, from which a notable behavioral change in personal relationships led to infer toward alternative lifestyles.
Conclusion
Notwithstanding the variation in lifestyles of the elderly after the pandemic, certain relationships remained unaltered. Thus, from the analyzed variables, relatives and friends relationships were scarcely influenced by the supervened incident.
Older adults can frequently serve as a reminder of death to younger adults. People can develop a negative attitude towards aging and elderliness because they see old age as an obstacle in reaching ...their goals and what they want to do, which they see as the purpose of their lives. This research was conducted to answer to the question of whether attitudes towards aging and elderliness have a mediating role in the relationship between meaning and purpose of life and death anxiety. Relational screening model was used in the research. The research was conducted with 422 participants between the ages of 18-59. In the analysis of the data, Pearson Correlation Analysis and Regression analysis were performed. In addition, Hayes Macro was used in SPSS program to analyze the mediator variable effect. As a result, it was determined that the attitude towards aging had a significant mediator role in the effect of the meaning and purpose of life on death anxiety. It was found that there was a moderate positive correlation between the attitude towards aging and elderliness and death anxiety, a moderate negative correlation between the attitude towards aging and elderliness and the meaning and purpose of life, and a weak negative correlation between death anxiety and the meaning and purpose of life.
The aging process which begins with birth and continues until death, has been evaluated by the cultures in various forms of meanings at different times. Turkish frame of mind generally imposes some ...requirements on age scales of people and it expects those people to fulfill these requirements. This thought system has found a wide place in the Turkish language. Stereotyped statements such as proverbs, idioms and apothegms in Turkish expect people to face their ages and elderliness. In this study, firstly, the place of elderliness in terms of dominant mindset in Turkey is exhibited with the main lines; then, the concept of confrontation which is seen an important notion in the process of accepting the changes experienced by the individual depending on aging is explained. The study continues with analysis of examples selected from proverbs, idioms, and apothegms in Turkish in the context of confrontation with elderliness. As a result of this study, it is obtained a result that elderliness is seen as a process that individuals need to confront, and that reflection of the thought to the language contributes to the individual’s acceptance of this process psychologically.
Seguindo de perto as análises heideggerianas do fenômeno do tédio na preleção “Conceitos fundamentais da metafísica. Mundo. Finitude. Solidão.” assim como da angústia em outras obras de sua autoria, ...o presente escrito elabora uma interpretação da nostalgia como uma tonalidade fundamental de humor, que consiste no primeiro passo para a (re)construção de um conceito ontológico-existencial de memória, o qual, por sua vez, tomará parte no contexto de reflexão acerca do sentido ontológico-existencial da velhice em particular e do poder-ser etário em geral.
Depression is one of the most common psychiatric (psychological) disorders and the most common risk for suicide in the elderly which has been the subject of many studies by researchers. Hence, this ...investigation aims to study the effect of a course of Yoga exercises on depression in elderly women. Present study is semi-experimental with pre-test and post-test and follow-up design. The statistical society of the study consisted of all elderly women of Shahrekord. The study sample included 30 elderly depressed women aged 60 to 85 who had the required criteria for the investigation and were selected purposefully for this study. They were divided into two groups randomly, that is experiment group (15) and control group (15). Beck Depression Questionnaire was used as a data collection tool in this research. The experimental group members were trained for 3 sessions (45- 70 min) per week for 8 weeks under the supervision of a specialist Yoga coach. After one month, the follow-up test was conducted. Multivariate covariance analysis was used to study the study hypothesis. After eight weeks of breathing and relaxation Yoga exercises, results revealed that the difference in the scores of the experiment and control groups in post-test stage (p= 0.001) and follow-up stage (p= 0.001) was significant. According to the findings of this study, It could be said that the breathing and relaxation exercises of Yoga could be used as a complementary treatment for reducing depression in the elderly women.
A long life to be spent in a healthy, independent and vigorous way is one of humanity's biggest dreams. This is the engagement of individuals in healthy ageing processes. This study was carried out ...to conduct the Turkish validity and reliability study of the "Engagement in Healthy Ageing Scale" developed by Menichetti, Bonanomi, and Graffigna 3 to determine the engagement of individuals in healthy ageing and their experiences with healthy ageing.
The quantitative research design was used in the study and descriptive findings were presented. Personal information form and the "Engagement in Healthy Ageing Scale" were used in the study's data collection. In addition, the "Health Seeking Behaviour Scale", and the "Self-Efficacy Scale" were used to conduct context validity. The data of the study were analysed with the help of SPSS and the LISREL package program.
It was determined that the goodness of fit index values of the Engagement in Healthy Ageing Scale, which was adapted into Turkish, showed good fit and acceptable fit. To test the context validity, the correlational relationship of the Engagement in Healthy Ageing Promotion Scale with the Health Seeking Behaviour and Self-Efficacy scales were examined. As a result of the correlation analysis, it was determined that there is a positive relationship between engagement in healthy ageing and health-seeking behaviour and self-efficacy.
As a result of the research, it was determined that the Engagement in Healthy Aging Scale is a valid and reliable measurement tool in Turkish culture (Appendix).
This article explores some features of popular music production by uncovering the palimpsestic geography of Okinawa, and in particular the octogenarian island idols of Kohama that have achieved ...stardom at home and outside their small island setting. As an island Other on multiple levels of separation beyond the mainland, and imagined in terms of geographic and cultural difference within archipelagic, prefectural, and national imaginaries, the assemblage of identity that embodies locality through the sonic discourse of popular music performance reveals pop simulacra on the one hand yet creative and distinct representation of island identity on the other.
Amaç: Bu çalışmada 65 yaş üstü bireylerde Tinetti yürüme ve denge testi kullanılarak kişilerin düşme ve femur kırığı riski yönünden değerlendirilmesi amaçlandı.Materyal ve Metot: Araştırmaya 17 Mart ...2014 – 05 Eylül 2014 tarihleri arasında S.B. Ankara Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi Aile Hekimliği polikliniğine başvuran kişiler ile huzurevlerinde yaşamakta olan 65 yaş üstü kişilerden gönüllü olanlar çalışmaya dahil edildi. Katılımcılara sosyodemografik özelliklerini ve sağlık durumlarını sorgulayan bir anket ve Tinetti denge ve yürüme testi uygulandı. Veriler SPSS 16.0 istatistik programı ile analiz edildi. Bulgular: Çalışmaya kendi evinde yaşayan 79(%53,3) ve halen huzurevinde yaşamakta olan 69(%46,6) kişi olmak üzere 65 yaş üstü olan 148 bireyler dahil edildi. Bunlardan 45(%30,4)’i erkek, 103(%69,6)‘ü kadın idi. Yaş ortalaması ise 76,46 ± 7,19 idi. Yaşlı bireylerin Tinetti test skorlarının; geriatrik depresyon skalası skorları, ileri yaş, daha önceki düşme hikayesi ve huzur evinde kalma ile ilişkili olduğu gözlendi. Yaşanılan mekan olarak huzurevinde ikamet etmenin de Tinetti denge ve toplam skorunu arttırdığı görüldü. Sonuç: Ülkemizdeki yaşlı nüfusun yıllar geçtikçe artış göstermesi ‘yaşlılarda düşme’ konusuna birinci basamak hekimleri olarak özel önem göstermemizi gerektirmektedir. Çalışmamızda yaşlılıkta düşme ile ilgili bulmuş olduğumuz risk faktörlerinin de yapılabilecek risk değerlendirmesinde yol gösterici olabileceğini düşünmekteyiz.
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