Participation Of Elderly People Research Articles

중국 노인의 여가스포츠 참여동기가 재사회화 및 성공적 노화에 미치는 영향

The purpose of this study is to empirically analyze the effect of Chinese seniors’ motivation to participate in leisure sports on their resocialization and successful aging. 364 Chinese seniors living in Beijing, China and regularly participating in leisure sports were selected as research subjects. For analyzing data, frequency analysis, exploratory factor analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis were conducted using the SPSS 25.0 Version. As a result, first, Chinese seniors' motivation to participate in leisure sports was found to have a positive effect on resocialization. Second, their motivation to participate in leisure sports was found to have a positive effect on successful aging. Third, resocialization of Chinese seniors was found to have a positive effect on successful aging. In conclusion, in order to expect elderly people's participation in leisure sports, positive resocialization, and successful aging, it is necessary to develop (1) programs that consider intrinsic motivation such as enjoyment and fun, (2) differentiated programs by level for skill development, and (3) programs for positive resocialization.

The effect of subjective life expectancy on the participation in commercial pension insurance of Chinese elderly

ObjectiveThis paper studies the impact of the subjective life expectancy of the elderly on their commercial pension insurance participation at micro perspective, providing new evidence to explain the motivation of commercial pension insurance participation in China.MethodsUsing 4 waves of data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) from 2011 to 2018, a multiple linear regression model is constructed to investigate the effect of subjective life expectancy on commercial pension insurance participation among the Chinese elderly, and IV model estimation shows that the results are robust. Meanwhile, the heterogeneity of the effect of elderly life expectancy on commercial pension insurance participation behavior among different characteristic groups is also studied.ResultsA one standard deviation improvement in our measure of subjective life expectancy predicts a 0.9% point higher participation rate in commercial pension insurance. We also find that there is significant heterogeneity in the effects of subjective life expectancy on the participation of elderly people in commercial pension insurance with respect to gender, education, hukou, and wealth.ConclusionThis paper provides a new perspective to explain the factors influencing commercial pension insurance participation in China. We suggest that improving residents’ awareness of life expectancy is beneficial to their reasonable retirement planning, in the background of stepping into an aging society in China.

Quality of Community Sports Service Distribution and Behavior Intention of the Elderly

The purpose of this study was to explore the quality of community sports distribution service through the evaluation and satisfaction of the elderly in Yangpu District of Shanghai on the quality of community sports service and explore the relationship between the quality of community sports distribution service, satisfaction, and behavioral intention. Data were collected by using surveys and analyzed using mathematical statistics. The survey refers to SERVPERF model to design a six-dimension, intermediary variable satisfaction and behavioral intention five-point scale for the service quality of community sports distribution. The sample size was 261. SPSS25.0 was used to conduct data analysis. Reliability and validity test and correlation analysis of service quality and satisfaction and behavior intention of the elderly were conducted. The Cronbach's Alpha value of the scale was 0.932. The KMO value was above 0.8, and Bartlett sphericity test was significant, indicating high reliability and validity of the scale. The analysis results showed that the mean values of the six dimensions of service quality and satisfaction were higher than 4.2, indicating that the elderly had a high evaluation of community sports distribution service quality. Community sports service delivery service quality dimensions and satisfaction and behavior intention between different degree of correlation, in addition to the tangibility of community sports service reliability of distribution service quality, responsiveness, assurance, empathy, and practicality for older people to participate in community sports service satisfaction and behavior intention of distribution had significant positive correlations. More women than men participated in community sports service delivery among the elderly since most of the delivery items are dance and martial arts. The elderly had a good participation in community sports service distribution, with the frequency and duration of weekly participation basically meeting the requirements of China's sports population within 4-5 years. They had more than 30 minutes of moderate intensity training at least three times a week. According to the evaluation and satisfaction of the elderly on the service quality of community sports service delivery, community sports service delivery was of high service quality. The service quality of community sports service delivery had a positive impact on the sustainability of elderly people's participation in community sports service delivery, and they were willing to recommend it to people around them to participate. Community sports service distribution activities should be publicized and promoted on the Internet so that more people can participate in the willingness.

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN THE CONTEXT OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT OF THE ELDERLY

The world tendencies of population aging, international and domestic practices of adaptation of the socio-economic environment to the deformation of the age structure of the population in the context of social responsibility are highlighted. The effects of population aging on the country's economy are substantiated. Emphasis is placed on changing economic activities, services, medicine, education, labor market, social sphere, tax system. The importance of socio-economic activation of the elderly population of Ukraine in the conditions of demographic crisis and increase of life expectancy are proved.
 The world and national normative documents in the aspect of formation of socio-economic strategies, policies, practical activities of governments to minimize the present and future consequences of population aging have been studied.
 The domestic practices of social activation of the elderly are considered. Over the past decade, many social projects have been implemented in Ukraine within the cooperation of governmental and non-governmental organizations, the private sector and international foundations to enhance the participation of elderly people in the society. In particular, recreational centers, Universities of the third age and individual training courses have been created, forums and festivals are being held, volunteering is being developed. However, the coverage of elderly people by project activity in this area is low. Social projects are mainly concentrated in large cities and level of awareness of available opportunities is quite low.
 The main aspects of social integration of the elderly are analyzed on the example of the rural population of Skolivshchyna (Skole district). The results of the sociological survey show that most elderly people consider themselves to be needed and important to the community. The activity of the elderly is low: 7 % of respondents consider themselves to be inactive, 56 % are less active, 32 % are more active, and only 5 % consider themselves unambiguously active. The motivation factors for the inclusion of elderly people in public activities are the need to be in the team (35 %), the need for socially important activities (28 %), the unwillingness to stay at home (11 %), the need for self-actualization (8 %).
 The ways of increasing social responsibility in the direction of social integration of the elderly in Ukraine are suggestedin order to adapt the socio-economic sphere to the trends of population aging.

SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICSOF LVIV UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE LISTENERS ADAPTABILITY

The paper deals with investigations of social-psychological adaptability peculiarities of elderly people in Lviv (Ukraine). These personal performances are compared for the people who study and those who are not L’viv University of Third Age (LUTA) listeners. The results of investigation have shown that participation of elderly people in LUTA allows them to decrease the solitude feeling and to increase the socio-psychological adaptability as well as the stress resistance level.

Socialiai įtraukti ar atskirti? Vyresnio amžiaus žmonių, gyvenančių vienų, patirtys

Vyresnio amžiaus žmonių socialinės atskirties tyrimuose dominuojanti tendencija – tirti dėsningumus, o šio straipsnio išskirtinumas – siekis atskleisti vyresnio amžiaus žmonių, kurie gyvena vieni, subjektyvius dalyvavimo visuomenėje vertinimus. Socialinė atskirtis / įtrauktis straipsnyje apibrėžiama kaip daugialypė sąvoka, apibūdinanti (ne)teisingus socialinius ryšius. Originalaus empirinio tyrimo (27 pusiau struktūruoti interviu) duomenų analizė atskleidžia platų socialinės atskirties, patiriamos įvairiu lygmeniu, spektrą. Remiantis socialinio teisingumo schema, neįtrauktumo visuomenėje naratyvai grindžiami asmeniniu ir tarpasmeniniu (amžiaus, sveikatos, bendravimo, savarankiškumo), organizaciniu, bendruomenės (darbo) ir visuomenės (dalyvavimo renginiuose ir politikoje) kontekstais.

TOURIST ACTIVITY OF OLDER INHABITANTS OF THE WARMIAN-MAZURIAN VOIVODESHIP

Purpose. Describing tourist behavior of people over the age of 60 = living in the countryside and cities. An attempt to indicate differences in behaviour of elderly tourists according to their place of residence. Method. The research included 380 individuals (305 women and 75 men) over the age of 60. The authors used a diagnostic survey and an anonymous questionnaire. The results were drawn up with STATISTICA v.12 using a descriptive statistic module (N and %) and the statistical hypothesis test for two indices with the significance of  = 0.05. Findings. The majority of the tested senior citizens are active tourists. They travel more than when they were younger, and a considerable group claims to have started travelling when retired. Seniors have time and money which they willingly spend on tourism, even at the expense of services or products. However, the research showed that place of residence (countryside or a city) is a factor that has a substantial influence on the participation of elderly people in tourism, their reasons for travelling, manners of travel organization and realization, choice of transport and accommodation. Senior citizens living in the countryside definitely do not opt for tourism as often as the city-dwellers. Research and conclusion limitations. The difficulty in reaching elderly people, especially those living in the countryside and those who are not members of any organizations for seniors was the limitation of the research. What is more, the research was only conducted in one Polish Voivodeship. Practical implications. The collected data may be useful for organizers of tourist events directed towards seniors and social organizations working for the elderly. Originality. The available literature on the subject does not include data connected with tourist activity of the elderly living in the countryside. Type of paper. The article presents the results of empirical research.

Education In Cardiovascular Health In Older Group: Experience Report

Introduction: Together with the population aging, the number of the vulnerable elderly cardiovascular disease also increases. With this, it is necessary to adopt health education practices to intervene in the prevention of these diseases. Objective: To report the experience in the development of educational practices focused on the cardiovascular health of the elderly population. Methods: This is a descriptive study of experience report type with nursing students belonging to a private university in the Northeast of Brazil, during the supervised training. Results: The activities were dynamics, in conversations circles through instruments such as overhead projector and posters. Illustrative materials (folders) were available to participants for better fixation of the content covered. The educational activities had the active participation of elderly people who were able to share their experiences and questions. Keywords: Nursing; Health education; Health of the elderly.

Comparison of Preferred Features in Spatial Composition for Shared Housing between Rural and Urban Elderly

Shared housing for elderly people, where several elderly people live together, gains attention as a means to prevent the lonely death of elderly people and continuously maintain their social relations. The purpose of this study is to compare the characteristics planned through rural and urban areas-residing elderly people's participation in the shared housing spatial composition by area. This study conducted a small scale workshop panel method that targeted small group, but through which extensive information can be acquired, as a qualitative method. This study targeted 16 elderly people aged 65 and over living in rented apartments in rural and urban areas by dividing them two groups by area, namely into four groups. A total of 12 workshop sessions were held with three sessions at a time through a certain time interval. As a result of the study, the elderly people showed positive responses to the shared housing, irrelevant of area. As time went on, the workshop panel method's effect was revealed through consolidated positive attitude and agreement of different opinions. The shared housing for elderly people is valuable as a residential alternative for elderly people, and differentiated supply of the shared housing for elderly people, according to residential area's characteristics, is suggested.

Verification of the mediation effect of recovery resilience according to the relation between elderly users' participation in exercise rehabilitation program and their successful aging.

This study aims to verify the mediation effect of recovery resilience according to the relation between Senior Citizen Community Center (SCCC) elderly users’ participation in exercise rehabilitation programs and their successful aging. Toward that end, 400 65-yr or older participants and non-participants in SCCCs’ exercise rehabilitation programs, living in Incheon, were sampled. Of their answered questionnaires, 35 copies which were deemed low-reliability, duplicated, and inadequately specified were excluded from the analysis. And, the other data were coded through computers, and underwent a descriptive statistical analysis (DSA) and a standard multiple regression analysis (SMRA) using Windows SPSS/PC+21.0 Version statistical program. Thus it was firstly found that elderly people’s participation or non-participation in exercise rehabilitation programs partially influenced their recovery resilience and successful aging. The participants group, compared with the non-participants group, had greater recovery resilience and experienced successful aging. Second, the relation between the degree of participation in exercise rehabilitation programs, recovery resilience and successful aging revealed that the longer and the more frequent the participation in exercise rehabilitation programs was, the greater the recovery resilience was and the more successful aging was. Third, the verification of the mediation effect of recovery resilience in the relation between the program participation degree and the successful aging revealed that, compared with those of the model of direct effects of independent variables and dependent variables, the recovery resilience-mediated model’s verification power and explanation power were greater.

CORRELATION BETWEEN THE PARTICIPATION OF ELDERLY PEOPLE IN THE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY AND THEIR ASSESSMENT OF THE HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE

The aim of the research: discovering the relation between the participation of elderly people in the occupational therapy and their Health-Related Quality of Life. Research material and methods: research was carried out in the public social centres offering the occupational therapy devoted to the elderly people. 95 people whose average age was 72,1 years (58 women and 37 men) were examined. The examinees were divided into two groups: the participants and those who were not involved in the occupational therapy. The method of direct interview using EQ-5D-3L questionnaire - a standard instrument for measuring Health-Related Quality of Life of the elderly people was applied. The results: Seniors involved in occupational therapy reported better HRQL. Difficulties with mobility (<0,05), pain/discomfort (<0,001) and anxiety (<0,001) were substantially more visible around people who did not take part in the occupational therapy. The average self-reported health was better among the occupational therapy participants (<0,001) in comparison with the other elderly people who were not engaged in those activities (76,5 vs. 43,6 respectively). Conclusions: participation in the occupational therapy has a positive effect on the functioning of the elderly people in every sphere of their life: physical, mental and social one. Involvement in the occupations resulted in the improved perception of the Health-Related Quality of Life. Occupational therapy turned out to be an inexpensive and effective method that exerts a positive impact on maintenance of physical and intellectual abilities, social inclusion as well as physical rehabilitation of seniors.

Context-Based Barrier Notification Service Toward Outdoor Support for the Elderly

Aging society has been becoming a global problem not only in advanced countries. Under such circumstances, it is said that participation of elderly people in social activities is highly desirable from various perspectives including decrease of social welfare costs. Thus, we propose a mobile service that notifies barrier information nearby users outside to lowers the anxiety of elderly people and promote their social activities. There are barrier free maps in some areas, but those are static and updated annually at the earliest. However, there exist temporary barriers like road repairing and parked bicycles, and also every barrier is not for every elder person. That is, the elder people are under several conditions and wills to go out, so that a barrier for an elder person is not necessarily the one for the other. Therefore, we first collect the barrier information in the user participatory manner and select the ones the user need to know, then timely provide them via a mobile phone equipped with GPS. This paper shows the public experiment that we conducted in Tokyo, and confirms the usability and the accuracy of the information filtering.

Exploring Impact of Independent Living Programme on Activity Participation Of Elderly People with Chronic Conditions

Background: The Independent Living Programme (ILP) is an eight-week community-based rehabilitation programme, consisting of group and individual interventions for older adults with chronic conditions. This research is an exploratory study to examine the potential impact of the programme on attendees' participation in daily activities and self-perceptions of performance and satisfaction with their performance of activities of daily living. Methods: Study participants were over 70 years of age, with physician-confirmed diagnoss of chronic conditions. 4 single-group, pre-test, post-test design ( Shadish et al, 2002 ) was used with a qualitative component. Evaluation measures included the Model of Human Occupation Screening Tool (MOHOST), the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) and qualitative interviews. Ethical approval was obtained from Trinity College Dublin and Health Service Executive ethics committees. Findings: Ten people participated in the study. There was significant improvement in participants' overall activity participation (P&lt;0.011), self-perceptions of performance (P&lt;0.001) and satisfaction (P&lt;0.001). Motor skills and motivation to engage in activity also improved significantly (P&lt;0.001 and P&lt;0.035). Interviewees reported increased self-efficacy and reflection on how they performed their daily activities. There was no significant difference in scores on process skills, communication/ interactions skills, and environmental influences on performance pre and post participation in the programme. Conclusion: This 8-week ILP significantly increased participants' overall activity participation, their self-perceptions of their activity performance and satisfaction with same. Due to the non-experimental nature of the study however, the results must be interpreted with caution. On the other hand, this study has clinical significance as it appears that the combination of group-education sessions, and individual tailored interventions, improves people's confidence, their motivation and motor skills to participate in activities. Further experimental research is required to confirm these findings.

Arbeit und Alter in ländlichen Gesellschaften der Frühen Neuzeit. Die Erwerbstätigkeit im Alter zwischen eigenem Besitz und den Zwängen einer „Ökonomie des Auskommens“

Abstract Despite the growing interest historians have expressed in old age and ageing in recent decades, our knowledge of the labour force participation of elderly people in pre-industrial times is still very limited. This is due to the fact that historians have, for far too long, discussed ‘old age’ mostly in terms of ‘providing for the elderly’ whilst more or less ignoring the wide range of activities the elderly were engaged in as well as the high rate of life-long labour force participation before the late 19th century. This study, on the one hand, discusses the social position of ‘retirees’ (former rural house owners), a social position often seen as an archetype for modern ‘retirement’. Numerous examples are presented from the regional case study of South Bohemia as well as from other parts of Central Europe showing that pre-modern retirees quite often continued to work in many different ways. In many cases inter vivos transfers of land and houses were not undertaken in order to allow for retirement from all activities but rather to facilitate a change in the individual’s own main focus of activity from one occupation to another. In a second part of the study the economy of makeshifts of the poor is analysed. Using rare sources from several South Bohemian parishes enables us to document the importance of the mixed economy of the poorest section of the rural elderly.

The greying population: A wasted human capital or just a social liability?

O ver the coming decades, the size and age-profile of the population in OE CD countries will undergo substantial changes because of lower fertility rates and longer life expectancy. The proportion of elderly people is forecast to increase dramatically in all industrialized countries, and the size of the population to decrease in many of them. The growing proportion of elderly people raises concerns about the financial sustainability of pension and health-care systems and a possible reduction in economic growth. To counterbalance these effects, some international institutions and national governments have advocated an increase in the length of working life through a postponement of the retirement age. While this policy would reduce the financial pressure on welfare systems, its effects on the labour market are less clear-cut. In many industrialized countries, particularly in Europe, the current level of unemployment is quite high already, so there is concern that an increase in the labour supply of elderly workers could result in even higher unemployment for young workers. Furthermore, increasing the labour force participation of elderly people would not necessarily translate into higher overall employment levels if demand does not adjust to the increase. The aims of this article are, in the first part, to analyse the labour market effects of ageing and, in the second, to discuss the main policy measures needed to cope with this trend. The opening part consists of five sections, the first of which examines projected population and labour force dynamics in the major OE CD countries over the next few decades. The second section discusses the short-run impact of a reduction in the labour force on the unemployment rate, while the third and fourth extend the analysis to the long run by looking at the effects of

Relationships among the civic awareness, mobilization, and electoral participation of elderly people in Hong Kong

Given the significance of the elderly population in the burgeoning democratic politics of Hong Kong, research is necessary to elucidate the basis for elderly people’s electoral participation. Furthermore, questions regarding impacts of mobilization, and civic awareness on the participation are of important concern. In response to the questions, the present study is the first one surveying a representative sample of 831 Chinese elderly people (aged > 60) in Hong Kong. Using causal modeling techniques, it identified latent variables of civic awareness (including exposure to media on public affairs and political knowledge), electoral participation, and mobilization by politicians and estimated their relationships. Results showed that civic awareness had a strong effect on electoral participation and mobilization also had some significant effect. Electoral participation also appeared to be a function of the elderly person’s education, age, sex, community attachment, and membership in an elderly center. These findings suggest that Hong Kong elderly people’s electoral participation is subject to influence of power, both internally through civic awareness and education and externally through mobilization.