Home support workers are vulnerable because many of them are foreign-born, because they are often poorly paid, and because they work in private homes.
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‘I like to think I am in the process of living with loneliness’: Co-developing cross-generational letter-writing with higher education students and older people
Across generations, their correspondence provided them with additional emotional benefits derived through letter writing.
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End-of-life care in nursing homes: Allowing for self-determined dying in a ‘total social institution’
In the last days of life, residents are most often not in a position to express their will, and nurses interpret minimal bodily signs as expressions.
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UK housing options in later life: The enigma of sheltered and extra care housing
The private sector tends to commodify housing stock but also acts in favour of the profit motive and the person and their needs remain largely ignored.
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How can a critical approach to the demographics of ageing better support city planning?
As ageing in urban settlement emerges as a global demographic trend, a better understanding of the importance and limitations of demographics should be placed at the top of researchers’ list …
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Pathways to Retirement in Flux for White-Collar Boomers
by Erik Kojolaby Erik KojolaThe Boomers in our study describing retirement as a reflection of disengagement and detachment from society – not the active and engaged lifestyle they yearned for. Rather than leave the …
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What are we talking about? Constructions of loneliness among older people in the Swedish news-press
by Axel Ågrenby Axel ÅgrenAlthough many of the articles are seemingly written with the best of intentions there is a risk that they further contribute to the portrayal of loneliness as a dangerous and/or …
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Paradoxically Thinking: Ageing with Disability, Disability with Ageing
by Ann Leahyby Ann LeahyThe potential to make common cause between groups who are otherwise divided, and amongst whom are individuals dealing alone with challenges that seem to require collective responses.
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Curling’s new style risks devaluing the alternative masculine styles, often embodied by those in later life; something that curling previously celebrated.
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Reconceptualizing Successful Aging among North American Older Indigenous Peoples
by Jessica Paceby Jessica PaceThe dominant model of successful aging is centered on three main criteria which include: a low probability of disease and disability, high physical and cognitive functional capacity, and active engagement …