Elderly Mothers Research Articles

The magnitude of parental physical harms: a descriptive report of 76 abusive children in Isfahan.

Victimization of parents by their children is a widespread phenomenon. However, there is a shortage of literature regarding the abusive behavior of children in Iranian society. The primary focus of this study was to highlight the magnitude and nature of the abusive behavior of a handful of Iranian children toward their parents. The sample study comprised 76 cases referred to the Isfahan Forensic Department (IFD) from September 2015 to October 2016. Data were computer analyzed using SPSS-21 by running a couple of descriptive-analytical tests. Most of the victims were elderly mothers above 60 years old. The victims were mostly injured in the neck and head. The majority of the offenders were between 20 to 30 years old, unemployed, with a family history of substance abuse. Significant differences (p less than 0.05) were observed in some variables: gender (women), age (over 60 years), harassment in the residence, having financial authority, 4 children or more (in victims group) and unemployment, single, age between 21-30 years (in offenders group). Children's abusive behavior towards their parents is a multifactorial phenomenon. Family constitution and background appeared to play a pivotal role in shaping the offenders' social behavior and reaction to their parents. Nonetheless, there is a need to explore further the possible causes of parental victimization.

A Review of Hidradenitis Suppurativa in Special Populations: Considerations in Children, Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women, and the Elderly.

Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic skin condition that significantly impacts patients' quality of life. HS is often challenging to treat. In this review, we discuss the unique characteristics of HS in four special populations: children, the elderly, pregnant individuals, and breastfeeding mothers. In children, diagnosis may be delayed due to atypical and early HS disease presentations. HS management plans must take into consideration the lack of rigorous efficacy and safety data of HS treatments in this population. However, it is important to weigh the risk of treatments against the risk of untreated HS and the morbidity and mortality risk that having HS confers. Pregnancy poses unique challenges for women with HS, with their condition possibly worsening during pregnancy and increased risk of fetal death. Management strategies during pregnancy must consider both maternal and fetal safety. Similarly, breastfeeding mothers require thoughtful medication selection to balance symptom management with infant safety. In the elderly, HS may present more severely and is often complicated by comorbidities. Treating HS in this population should safely accommodate patients' additional health conditions. Furthermore, this review highlights the overall paucity of primary literature addressing management in these populations, underscoring the need for further research to optimize HS care across all stages of life.

DIGITALISASI UMKM : UPAYA PENINGKATAN USAHA MIKRO KECIL MENENGAH DESA WINDUSARI

In the industrial era 5.0, technology is developing rapidly throughout all levels of society. The benefits of technology can already be felt in everyday life. Such as the activities of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), in running their businesses they have digitized by marketing online. The aim of this research is to examine further the impact of digital marketing on increasing the sales volume of MSMEs in Windusari Village. The analysis used is descriptive qualitative using a triangulation model, namely a mixed method of interviewing and observing MSMEs actors. The results of this research indicate that digital marketing has not been fully utilized optimally by MSMEs in Windusari Village. This is because most of the business actors in Windusari Village are elderly mothers for whom technology has not been well absorbed. Even though its use is not yet optimal, digital marketing can make it easier for MSMEs to provide information and interact directly with consumers, expand market share and increase sales volume for MSMEs in Windusari Village.

Adult Childrens’ College Completion Timing and Their Aging Mothers’ Self-Rated Health: The Role of Mothers’ Educational Attainment

Adult Childrens’ College Completion Timing and Their Aging Mothers’ Self-Rated Health: The Role of Mothers’ Educational Attainment

Caesarean delivery and neonatal mortality: evidence from selected slums in and around Dhaka city, Bangladesh- A prospective cohort study

BackgroundThis study examined the neonatal mortality for newborn of women who delivered by caesarean section or vaginally using a prospective cohort.MethodsA total of 6,989 live births registered from 2016 to 2018, were followed for neonatal survival from the selected slums of Dhaka (North and South) and Gazipur city corporations, where icddr,b maintained the Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS). Neonatal mortality was compared by maternal and newborn characteristics and mode of delivery using z-test. Logistic regression model performed for neonatal mortality by mode of delivery controlling selected covariates and reported adjusted odd ratios (aOR) with 95% confidence interval (CI).ResultsOut of 6,989 live births registered, 27.7% were caesarean and the rest were vaginal delivery; of these births, 265 neonatal deaths occurred during the follow-up. The neonatal mortality rate was 2.7 times higher (46 vs. 17 per 1,000 births) for vaginal than caesarean delivered. Until 3rd day of life, the mortality rate was very high for both vaginal and caesarean delivered newborn; however, the rate was 24.8 for vaginal and 6.3 per 1,000 live births for caesarean delivered on the 1st day of life. After adjusting the covariates, the odds of neonatal mortality were higher for vaginal than caesarean delivered (aOR: 2.63; 95% CI: 1.82, 3.85). Additionally, the odds were higher for adolescent than elderly adult mother (aOR: 1.60; 95% CI: 1.03, 2.48), for multiple than singleton birth (aOR: 5.40; 95% CI: 2.82, 10.33), for very/moderate (aOR: 5.13; 95% CI: 3.68, 7.15), and late preterm birth (aOR: 1.48; 95% CI: 1.05, 2.08) than term birth; while the odds were lower for girl than boy (aOR: 0.74; 95% CI: 0.58, 0.96), and for 5th wealth quintile than 1st quintile (aOR: 0.59, 95% CI: 0.38, 0.91).ConclusionOur study found that caesarean delivered babies had significantly lower neonatal mortality than vaginal delivered. Therefore, a comprehensive delivery and postnatal care for vaginal births needed a special attention for the slum mothers to ensure the reduction of neonatal mortality.

Daughters rewarding mothers’ piteous lives: Eldest daughters caring for aging mothers

This study is an analysis of the personal and social meanings of married women’s experiences caring for their aging mothers as the eldest daughter in Korean society. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven participants for this study. The interviews were conducted in Korean, and the collected data were analyzed using descriptive phenomenological analysis in four categories: “being the eldest daughter and daughter-in-law in a patriarchal society with nothing but duties”; “the pain of taking care of my mother that invades my daily life”; “The compassion of an eldest daughter who can’t turn a blind eye to her mother’s miserable life.”; and “Support from society to overcome the psychological difficulties of caregivers and help older adults in their daily lives”. The study participants felt emotional pain in caring for their mothers, and it was difficult for them to simultaneously play the roles of daughter-in-law, wife, and mother. However, they felt compassion for their mothers’ lives in a patriarchal society and believed they could compensate for their mothers’ hardships by caring for them. The participants emphasized the need for specialized in-home services that address the specific health needs of the older adult, along with counseling services for their caregivers. In Korean society, when daughters care for their mothers, it strengthens the shared history and emotions between mothers and daughters, affirming female solidarity. Based on the above findings, policy and practical measures are recommended to ensure that daughters who provide care for their mothers can deliver stable care.

The mothers: contesting health-illness status and cultural authority in the age of AIDS

Despite the relevance and prevalence of research that produced knowledge about stigmatised groups and communities throughout the 1980s and 1990s, in the United States, studies that investigated the relationship between HIV/AIDS, intersectional stigma, and health-illness status among groups considered hegemonic are incipient—i.e., heterosexual, and white groups, who did not suffer stigma due to sexuality and race/colour, for example. In this study, such a gap is examined in order to observe the effects of stigma in non-exposed communities. Additionally, the article (i) explores the formation of a pioneering group of caregivers in New York City, the Mothers of Patients with AIDS (MPWA), created in 1986; and (ii) analyses narratives about health disease from a collective care agenda established by middle-aged and elderly mothers dealing with the challenges and needs of adult children and people with moderate and high degrees of dependence. This study is part of a larger project that investigated the emergence of non-profit organisations and gerontology care groups in the context of the HIV-AIDS epidemic in New York in the 1980s and 1990s. Documentary research was developed in the Florence Rush collection, made available by the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The selected materials bring together qualitative empirical sources from reports, personal histories, and interviews conducted by Florence Rush and other mothers, social workers, and health professionals. As the results attest, the narratives produced by Florence Rush’s interlocutors during the AIDS health crisis make it possible to understand how social and cultural dynamics of recognising the disease did not result in autonomous, individual, and objective processes for exposing the pathological state. The strategic use of the term “cancer” instead of “AIDS” as an umbrella definition, and one less demarcated by aspects involving gender and sexual behaviour, evidenced the sociality of the illness. Conclusions show how negative representations were associated with AIDS—perceived as harmful, immoral, or deviant behaviours — and produced new meanings and demands among patients who feared stigmatising classifications in the midst of sexual panic until the commercial availability of the antiretroviral cocktail in 1997.

Crises of Queer Midlife in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Adult Onset

This article analyses Ann-Marie MacDonald’s 2014 novel Adult Onset as a text that brings the developmental literature of middle age into conversation with queer theories of temporality, family, and adulthood. Specifically, the novel invokes the narrative of the “mid-life crisis” to interrogate the concepts of queer progress and successful aging that its protagonist, a married lesbian mother and celebrated author named Mary Rose MacKinnon, outwardly embodies. Linking Mary Rose’s mid-life crisis with Jack Halberstam’s theory of “queer failure,” I argue that the text articulates a critique of the It Gets Better Project as a queer progress narrative and betrays Mary Rose’s deep ambivalence toward how her life in middle age conforms to a homonormative developmental script. At the same time, the crises of Mary Rose’s mid-life motherhood unsettle the homonormativity that appears to define her and contributes to a queering of family temporalities. Drawing upon Kathryn Bond Stockton’s theory of “growing sideways” but shifting the focus from growing up to growing old, I argue that the text brings Mary Rose into lateral relationships with other aging and old mothers in the text, both human and non-human. These lateral relationships not only offer alternatives to the concepts of progress and decline, success, and succession, which are at the root of normative conceptions of individual aging and generational time, but also move the discussion of mid-life in literature beyond anthropocentric understandings of what it means to age well in contemporary culture.

Measuring the quality and accessibility of urban greenery using free data sources: A case study in Bratislava, Slovakia

The importance of assessing urban greenery is growing, especially in the context of global warming and the emergence of urban heat islands. The paper proposes a set of measurements to evaluate the quality and accessibility of greenery based on freely available geographic data: Sentinel-2 satellite images, Urban Atlas, and Open Street Map. The quality (or availability) of urban greenery is derived from Sentinel-2 images by using the spectral Forest Index (FI). The proposed Neighborhood Green Quality Indexes (NGQI0/30, NGQI350) evaluate greenery in the near and far surroundings of the spatial unit by averaging the FI values. The Accessibility to Green Space Index (AGSI) measures accessibility to green spaces (GS) based on the number of theoretical functional levels within reach and the average normalised distance to the nearest GS across levels. We also propose to separately assess accessibility to parks with amenities through the Accessibility to Urban Parks Index (AUPI). Such areas attract specific groups of the population, such as elderly people and mothers with children, who are among the most vulnerable during heat waves. The proposed set of measurements can be applied to a square grid and to buildings. A mutual comparison of the proposed measurements in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, confirmed that each measurement captures different characteristics of urban greenery. The comparison of FI with two other widely used green quality indicators showed that FI achieves the highest correlation with the land surface temperature during hot summer days. When evaluating the precision of the NGQI0/30 calculation, Sentinel-2-derived FI proved to be a sufficient substitute for high-resolution urban greenery data sources. Since the proposed measurements do not require complex calculations and hard-to-obtain data, they are easily applicable to other cities.

Comparative study of pregnancy outcome in elderly and young mothers in a tertiary care hospital

Comparative study of pregnancy outcome in elderly and young mothers in a tertiary care hospital

한 여성 상담자의 노모와의 동거 경험에 대한 자문화기술지

The purpose of this study is to reflect upon and explore the meaning of the experience of living together with an elderly mother whose overall functioning has deteriorated, from the perspective of middle-aged child. An autoethnography was used as a study method, and various sources of data were employed for the study, including researcher’s recollections, records, and interview data. The collected data were organized and analyzed cyclically in line with the study topic. Results of the study were categorized into four main themes, namely “the context of family caregiving”, “like blocked veins”, “reversed roles” and “still a long way to go”. Through the study process, the researcher gained an understanding of the challenges of living together while unprepared, breakdowns in communication, changes in the roles within the mother-daughter relationship, and the need for healthy separation and individualization. Furthermore, beyond the conflicts inherent in the experience of living together, the researcher came to accept the heartwarming love for her mother. This study aims to not only understand the anger and guilt experienced by those facing difficulties in living together with their parents but also hopes to translate this understanding into ethical practices in the context of life.

MOTIVATION OF THE ELDERLY TWIG ‘AISYIYAH RONOWIJAYAN PONOROGO PARTICIPATES IN ELDERLY GYMNASTICS IN MAINTAINING FITNESS

Seeing the phenomenon around the house where there is an association of elderly mothers who take part in the 'Aisyiyah Ronowijayan Branch Leadership organization and have an elderly gymnastic work program which is attended by many elderly people. The Leaders of the 'Aisyiyah Ronowijayan Ponorogo Branch held elderly gymnastics 2x a week, initially only once a week. Judging from the increase, it could be said that the elderly had an interest and interest in the elderly gymnastics held by the Leaders of the 'Aisyiyah Ronowijayan Branch. In the end, researchers were interested in examining the motivation of the elderly. Data for this quantitative descriptive study were collected through a questionnaire. This study involved 25 parents of the Branch Manager "Aisyiyah Ronowijayan Ponorogo", who were selected through a total sampling technique. The questionnaire used consisted of 35 statements. The results showed that the elderly members of the Aisyiyah Ronowijayan Branch Leadership as a whole had a level of motivation to take part in the lasia exercise in the "very high" category, with a percentage of 0% (0 elderly), the "low" category, with a percentage of 100% (25 elderly), and the "very low" category, with a percentage of 0% (0 elderly). With an average of 104.8, it can be concluded that the motivation of the elderly members of the Aisyiyah Ronowijayan Branch Leadership is in the "high" category.

All aboard the 'Elephant Express', a practical solution for human-elephant coexistence

One of the most significant challenges for elephant conservation is managing negative interactions that occur where people and elephants use the same space and compete for resources. Human–elephant conflict (HEC) incidents often manifest in direct impacts to humans or elephants. However, some HEC situations result in long-term risk and chronic stress among communities living with elephants. Indirect impacts or opportunity costs, such as people being disadvantaged by the presence of elephants are harder to quantify and are not often addressed. In the eastern Okavango Panhandle, in northern Botswana, 17,500 people share space and resources with 18,000 elephants. Elephants here use distinct, historical corridors on a daily basis, moving from dryland resources to the wetlands of the Okavango Delta. Confrontations with elephants occur most frequently where these elephant corridors cross the main service road in the area, increasing fear among people walking to work, children going to school, parents sending children to school, and the elderly or expectant mothers accessing medical care. This constant fear contributes to chronic stress and can drive negative perceptions towards elephants. A novel intervention has been introduced to help reduce the costs of HEC and foster coexistence, in the Okavango Panhandle area—"The Elephant Express". The bus service was established through a multi-stakeholder collaboration to provide primary school children and medical personnel safe transport across elephant corridors. The complementary bus service have reduced stress from living with elephants, increased attendance and performance in schools, and facilitated improved access to medical care.

Aspects of Bundo Kanduang Minangkabau Cultural Studies

The study of the Bundo Kanduang Minangkabau culture demonstrates the crucial role that these elderly women or mothers play in the matrilineal society of West Sumatra, Indonesia. The role and meaning of Bundo Kanduang are very deep and cover various cultural, social, and spiritual aspects. Bundo Kanduang cultural studies help in understanding how strong the role of women is in Minangkabau culture and maintaining the uniqueness of this matrilineal society. They are protectors of cultural heritage, guardians of cultural values, and respected spiritual leaders. Through their roles and functions, the Bundo Kanduang maintain the continuity of the rich and valuable Minangkabau culture, playing a central role in maintaining harmony and wisdom in this society.

Revisiting the caregiver stress process: Does family caregiving really lead to worse mental health outcomes?

While the act of caregiving is often characterized as a stressful experience detrimental to mental health, recent studies are challenging this view by reporting robust health and well-being benefits linked to family caregiving. The current study attempted to provide an explanation of this apparent paradox by focusing on the role played by family health problems in the association between being a caregiver and mental health. Framed within the life course perspective and focusing on caregiving provided to aging mothers, the current study aimed 1) to demonstrate how the linkage between caregiving and depression reported in earlier studies may be misleading and 2) to further investigate whether caregiving to an aging mother may lead to any mental health benefits. Using longitudinal data drawn from the nationally representative US Health and Retirement Study, I follow adult children 50 and older who had a living mother during the observation period (N = 4812; 18,442 person-wave observations). A series of within-between random effects models were estimated to explicate how health conditions of aging mothers (i.e., disability and dementia) and caregiving transitions of adult children were associated with changes in depressive symptoms of adult children. Findings demonstrated that caregiving transitions were unrelated to depressive symptoms among adult children once the model controlled for the confounding effects of having their mother experience disability and dementia. Further, caregiving behavior was found to buffer the direct detrimental effect of maternal disability on adult children’s depressive symptoms. This study adds to the growing body of research that cautions against characterizing caregiving as a chronic stressor detrimental to mental health and further echoes earlier calls for a more balanced portrayal of caregiving in policy reports and research literature.

If only we could, Call the Midwife! Gender, class and the hegemonic power of television costume

The starting point for this article was a chance encounter with an episode of the BBC’s Call the Midwife (‘Episode 12.7’ 2023) whilst visiting my elderly mother on a Sunday evening. The brutal and graphic portrayal of women’s health issues and abject poverty in Poplar, East London during the latter part of the 1960s elicited feelings of warmth and nostalgia in my mother, not anger or frustration at the lack of progress for working-class women like her with regard to some of the issues represented, this was difficult for me to understand. Indeed, as recently as August 2022, the UK government published data that confirmed that there remains a gender gap in healthcare; the 51 per cent of the UK population that is female will spend a significant portion of their life in poor health compared to men, and this is further compounded for those women that live in poverty. What is it about this text that produces a form of soporific nostalgia that seems to dissolve feminist recognition that women’s health is still an issue, thereby nullifying the drive for change? This article suggests that the reasons for such reactions are symbolized through and within the costuming. The language of clothing employed, particularly the use of print and colour saturation work to render the clothing items as meaningless within the text, actually negating the power of the narrative in relation to the intersection of gender and social class. The costumes do however produce a different type of meaning at the margins of the text that articulate not only the production team’s creativity but also their subjective understanding about class dressing that, it is argued, is in part responsible for producing the gendered form of alienation embodied by my mother and others like her. This article employs critical theory across cultural studies, sociology, film studies and the philosophy of language as a useful and emerging cross disciplinary framework to examine costume and costume drama. Applying theories that may appear disconnected to costuming is a means by which to suggest that the shift in perceptions of working class sexuality and relationships experienced by the working class during the 1950s and 1960s and represented within Call the Midwife via the costuming has had far reaching effects on gendered class identity and consequently on contesting the negative material effects of the current UK class system including the issue of women’s health.

IMPLEMENTASI PENDIDIKAN SPIRITUAL MELALUI KITAB SYI'IR JAWI PADA KESEHATAN LANSIA DI TPQ AL-MUHIBBIN JOMBANG

Abstract: Old age is a period where there is a decline both physically and psychologically, so that at this stage a person becomes vulnerable to stress, depression, and loneliness. In addition, old age is also a phase close to death, so having a strong spirituality is very important to interpret life related to oneself, God, and fellow beings. Spirituality education becomes a form of education that can help individuals live a life with peace and tranquility. Therefore, spiritual education has a very important role, especially for those who have entered old age who are physically and psychologically vulnerable. This research uses qualitative methods with a case study approach that aims to find the extent of the impact of spiritual education on elderly mothers at TPQ Al-Muhibbin Jombang. The subjects in this study were mothers aged 60 years and over who were registered as students at TPQ Al-Muhibbin Jombang. While the object of this study is religious activities used to improve the spirituality of the elderly. The location of this research is TPQ Al-Muhibbin which is located at four points, namely (1) Cangkringrandu Perak Jombang, (2) Tambakberas Timur Tambakrejo Jombang, (3) Nglungu Tambakrejo Jombang, and (4) Bangle Dukuhklopo Peterongan Jombang. The purpose of this study was to determine the spiritual education activities used on elderly mothers and the extent of the impact of spiritual education on their mental health. After research, it was found that there are two religious activities that can improve the spirituality of the elderly at TPQ Al-Muhibbin, in the classroom and outside the classroom. Activities in class include learning to read Yanbu'a, reading short letters of the Qur'an, following assemblies of both tafsir, fiqh and shi'iran. Activities outside the classroom include participating in recitations such as the Birthday of the Prophet Muhammad (saw), the commemoration of Isro 'Mi'roj Prophet Muhammad SAW., Joint Prayer, Halal bi Halal, alms 10 Suro, orphan compensation, and visiting friends who are sick or dead

WORKSHOP MENYULAM SEBAGAI PENINGKATAN POTENSI DAN KREATIVITAS LANSIA

Elderly or can be called the elderly is a group of parents aged 45 years and over. Some of the elderly spend a lot of time at home, one of which is due to the condition of the body's declining stamina, causing a lack of active and productive activities that can be done by the elderly. Productive activities will help the elderly to keep moving and doing fun activities, so that their body and soul will feel better. One of the productive activities that can be done by the elderly is embroidery. The implementation of embroidery training activities for elderly mothers is carried out in four stages systematically consisting of (1) preparation; (2) implementation; (3) closing; and (4) preparation of reports. The purpose of this service activity is to organize productive activities for the elderly to increase the potential and creativity of the elderly of Talok Village.

Only daughters caring for their aging mothers in Ufa, Russia

Russia is not the only country in the world that relies heavily on informal caregiving, but what makes Russia unique is the number of single-parent one-child families. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transition from state socialism to market capitalism, little has changed in terms of the social protection of older adults. Unaffordable home care services, low pensions, bifurcation of the formerly free healthcare into state and private sectors, the invisibility of people with disabilities, and the absence of quality nursing homes, have left adult children in Russia no choice but to bear the full burden of caregiving for their aging parents completely alone. Given the scarcity of research that examines informal caregiving in Russia in general and in provincial cities in particular, this study addresses this gap by centering on previously unheard voices of a unique group of women: only children of single mothers from Ufa, a metropolitan city in the Ural Mountains. Twenty middle-aged (M = 40.75, SD = 3.43), college-educated women participated in a two-hour, semi-structured interview. Inductive thematic analysis revealed three themes: incongruence with the microenvironment, aging in the “cement box,” and distrust of outsiders. The findings suggest material and cultural constraints that female caregivers face as they negotiate the mothers’ discordance with the microenvironment of Khrushchev-era apartments.

Kepatuhan Penggunaan Masker Mahasiswa Akper YPPP Wonomulyo Terhadap Pencegahan Corona Virus Disease (Covid 19)

Covid-19 or severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 (sars-cov-2) is a virus attacking the respiratory system. Corona virus can cause disorders in the respiratory system, acute pneumonia, to acute virus syndrome. Cov-2) which is more known with the corona virus is a new type of coronavirus that is transmitted to humans. This virus cannot attack anyone, both babies, children, adults, elderly, pregnant women, or breastfeeding mothers. Death rate also still continue to happen even in balanced with the number of patient currency. The world health problem that is currently in the spotlight and is very important to get the attention of health scientists and the general public is a disease caused by the corona virus. This research contains compliance with the use of masks for the prevention of COVID-19 at the YPPP Wonomulyo Akper campus, Polewali Mandar Regency, which is located in the eastern part of the Sidodadi Village area. The purpose of this study was to find out about covid 19 and its prevention, to get appropriate information regarding student compliance regarding the use of masks that are good and correct for preventing covid 19 at the YPPP Wonomulyo Akper campus. The method used is a descriptive survey with a cross sectional study approach. This research was conducted door to door involving 40 samples with the results obtained as follows. The average score who compliance with the use of mask are 33 respondents (82.5%) and 7 respondents who do not compliance (17.5%).