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2022, Innovation in Aging
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Outing Age 2010: Public Policy Issues Affecting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Elders
Outing Age 2010: Public Policy Issues Affecting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Elders2010 •
Published by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute, Outing Age 2010 offers an in-depth look at the challenges facing the millions of LGBT older adults in the United States. The report discusses key areas for policy responses: discrimination and access to services, financial and family security, health and healthcare, caregiving, housing and civic engagement. Outing Age 2010 also details how federal programs exclude or otherwise discriminate against LGBT elders and offers policy recommendations for addressing the disparities experienced by LGBT older adults. Lead author: Jaime M. Grant. Co-authors: Gerard Koskovich, M. Somjen Frazer and Sunny Bjerk.
“Who will look after you when you are old and sick” is a question that is often asked to aging single people, sometimes out of genuine concern and more often to chide them about how they missed the bus of marriage and coupledom. This question becomes more poignant during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially for long-term older single people living alone. Under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act 2007, children are required to look after their parents.1 While this act is undergoing some changes in recent times, it still does not include the role of non-kin in later life caregiving.2 The law, hence, does not recognize single people’s existence in old age, especially those who are never married and without children. Even legal heirs are not bound by the law to look after their guardians. Unlike elsewhere, the age of retirement in India is 60 years. Hence, those who are single and do not have children to look after them need to start planning for their old age sooner than those who have children, often from the ages of 40 and 50 onward. This demographic needs to already plan successfully aging alone, especially because they don’t have children to look after them, which renders them non-existent in the face of the law. Legally, they do not have “anyone” to look after them since they do not have children, but as I shall demonstrate, they socially have mobilized a network of support to counter the gaps in the law. In this chapter, I examine self-care strategies long-term single people, specifically between the ages of 40 and 50, used during the COVID-19 pandemic lock-down to manage chronic illness and maintain health and well-being. The chapter uncovers how studying older single people’s lives contributes to understanding diverse strategies of self-care and reconfigures caregiving issues outside the traditional family, especially in the case where the law does not recognize their existence. The study provides us with a two-pronged insight, one into caregiving practices among older single people living alone, and two, into successfully aging alone. The chapter is divided into three sections. The first section examines the self-care practices employed by long-term single people living alone; the second section examines their social support system with regard to care and illness; and the third section theorizes care and aging from a singlehood standpoint.
Health Sociology Review
Informal caregiving: Cross-cultural applicability of the Person-Environment Model2009 •
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This research examined the experiences of older Prince Edward Island women in providing care to an aging parent, partner, family member, or friend. I investigated these experiences using a feminist lens to recognize the valuable experience of women and use their voice in bringing attention to the issues related to caregiving. This study was designed to answer three research questions: 1) What is the experience of older female caregivers living on Prince Edward Island? 2) What does it mean to be caregiver? 3) How do Prince Edward Island women describe caregiving? These questions were designed to determine what experiences, meaning, and description caregivers assign to their work and what can be learned from these experiences. Previous research in the field of caregiving has largely focused on quantitative measures of caregiver burden, activities of daily living, or access rates for caregiver support. I conducted one-to-one, in-depth interviews based on open-ended questions designed t...
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This longitudinal study was conducted between 1994 and 2004 in a cohort of southern Taiwan community-living elderly residents. This study aims to investigate the longitudinal change in disability, by using a ten-year longitudinal data set with six set cross-sectional data to exam-ine the trends of disability and the determinants. Disability was assessed using the Physical Activities of Daily Living (7PADLs) and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (7IADLs) scales. Socio-demographic factors; socioeconomic factors; living arrangements; lifestyle behaviours and health status were chosen as the predictors of each specific disability. eneralized estimating equation (GEE) regression models were used to analyse longitudinal data on variation in disability change over time and its determinants across the same cohort. The study showed great increase in the development of disability. Especially, the PADL disabilities increased even more than IADL disabilities. The study highlighted that re...
Study On How To Assess Improved Health Status In Older People Using The Health Outcome Tool (HOT)
Study On How To Assess Improved Health Status In Older People Using The Health Outcome Tool (HOT)2015 •
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Journal of cross-cultural gerontology
The Impact of Eldercare on Adult Children's Health and Employment in Transitional China2017 •
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Gerontologist
What determines an older person’s move into sheltered accommodation and residential care?2012 •
Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services
Caring for Our Elders: A Contemporary Conundrum for Working People2006 •
Legal Studies
Workers with elderly dependants: employment law's response to the latest care-giving conundrum2015 •
Dissertation Manuscript: Quality of Life in Unmarried Adult Child Sole Provider Parental Caregivers
Approved Final DM Quality of Life in Unmarried Adult Child Sole Provider Parental Caregivers20190914 15096 1wgqcj92019 •
Social Cohesion and Development
Older Women’s employment: the pension crisis and the crisis of care2016 •
Journal of Elder Policy
Age-friendly cities and communities: Policy opportunities and challenges.2020 •
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Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology
Caregiving Across International Borders: a Systematic Review of Literature on Transnational Carer-Employees2022 •
Sociological Spectrum
THE SANDWICHED GENERATION: MULTIPLE CAREGIVING RESPONSIBILITIES AND THE MISMATCH BETWEEN ACTUAL AND PREFERRED WORK HOURS2007 •
2019 •
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
Differing Prospects for Women and Men: Young Old-Age, Old Old-Age, and Eldercare2007 •
The International Journal of Aging and Human Development
Elder abuse by adult children: An applied, ecological framework for understanding contextual risk factors and the intergenerational character of quality of lifeInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Cessation of Care for Frail Older Adults: Physical, Psychological and Economic Outcomes for Family Carers2022 •