Ageism and Older Immigrants

Dolberg, Pnina; Sigurđardóttir, Sigurveig H.; Trummer, Ursula

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-73820-8_12

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“…They argue that older migrants have lower social status because they are old and discriminated against as migrants, and that care services are not available to them. A more recent study confirms the notion of discrimination against elderly migrants in different areas of life because of their age and background (Dolberg, Sigurðardóttir, & Trummer, 2018).…”

Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 56%

Older migrants’ use of elderly care in Sweden: family affects choice between home help services and special housing

Songur

2019

European Journal of Social Work

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Swedish elderly care consists mainly of two forms of care: home help services and special housing. The aim of this paper is to investigate and analyse how and to what extent older migrants use different forms of elderly care and to explore whether, and if so why, this is the case. The article uses a mixed method that combines a quantitative and a qualitative research approach. The study comprises statistics on the total population of elderly persons using home help services and special housing, and 10 telephone interviews with care managers. The results show that while Nordic migrants have similar patterns access to elderly care to Swedes, older migrants from the Middle East and Africa use home help services to a similar extent to older Swedes, but refrain from use of special housing due to the greater accessibility of home help services and the help they receive from family and relatives. To understand this disparity, the study highlights the role of filial piety and family obligation, which prescribe how the family should take care of elderly family members. The results show that the family significantly influences an elderlýs choice of public forms of care in ways that fit its preferences.

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Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 56%

Older migrants’ use of elderly care in Sweden: family affects choice between home help services and special housing

Songur

2019

European Journal of Social Work

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“…For example, combined with increasing globalization of world communities, such rapid aging of the global population will require increased capacity to assess the mental health needs of elders of diverse backgrounds. The growing population of immigrant elders may pose additional capacity challenges, as their mental health needs may be especially high …”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The growing population of immigrant elders may pose additional capacity challenges, as their mental health needs may be especially high. 2 Mental health professionals will increasingly need assessment instruments for measuring constructs of psychopathology that are generalizable to diverse elders. However, as pointed out by Mindt et al, 3 there is a paucity of assessment instruments that are appropriate for culturally and linguistically diverse older adults.…”

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The generalizability of Older Adult Self‐Report (OASR) syndromes of psychopathology across 20 societies

Ivanova

Achenbach

Rescorla

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Int J Geriat Psychiatry

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Objectives As the world population ages, psychiatrists will increasingly need instruments for measuring constructs of psychopathology that are generalizable to diverse elders. The study tested whether syndromes of co‐occurring problems derived from self‐ratings of psychopathology by US elders would fit self‐ratings by elders in 19 other societies. Methods/design The Older Adult Self‐Report (OASR) was completed by 12 826 adults who were 60 to 102 years old in 19 societies from North and South America, Asia, and Eastern, Northern, Southern, and Western Europe, plus the United States. Individual and multigroup confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) tested the fit of the seven‐syndrome OASR model, consisting of the Anxious/Depressed, Worries, Somatic Complaints, Functional Impairment, Memory/Cognition Problems, Thought Problems, and Irritable/Disinhibited syndromes. Results In individual CFAs, the primary model fit index showed good fit for all societies, while the secondary model fit indices showed acceptable to good fit. The items loaded strongly on their respective factors, with a median item loading of .63 across 20 societies, and 98.7% of the loadings were statistically significant. In multigroup CFAs, 98% of items demonstrated approximate or full metric invariance. Fifteen percent of items demonstrated approximate or full scalar invariance, and another 59% demonstrated scalar invariance across more than half of societies. Conclusions The findings supported the generalizability of OASR syndromes across societies. The seven syndromes offer empirically based clinical constructs that are relevant for elders of different backgrounds. They can be used to assess diverse elders and as a taxonomic framework to facilitate communication, services, research, and training in geriatric psychiatry.

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“…Another common feature of these chapters is the emphasis on multiple jeopardies that older adults experience. The chapters demonstrate that ageism increases vulnerability in old age, which is often further amplified by impaired health status (Gewirtz-Meydan et al 2018;Wyman, Shiovitz-Ezra, and Bengel 2018;Fialová et al 2018), immigration status (Dolberg, Sigurðardóttir, and Trummer 2018), mental illness (Bodner et al 2018), dementia status (Evans), or a sensory decline (Ben-David et al 2018). These multiple vulnerabilities correspond with the chapter by Krekula et al (2018;Chap. 3) in the previous section, and support the need to view ageism in context, as part of other potential sources of discrimination.…”

Section: Introduction To the Section: On The Manifestations And Consementioning

confidence: 84%

“…These may include a variety of health or mental health care professionals (Wyman, Shiovitz-Ezra, and Bengel 2018;Fialová et al 2018;Bodner et al 2018;Evans, Ben-David et al 2018) or long-term care workers (Gewirtz-Meydan et al 2018). Finally, ageism also occurs at the macro-level, as clearly illustrated in policies which discriminate against older immigrants (Dolberg, Sigurðardóttir, and Trummer 2018), older adults with dementia (Evans), or older adults with other health conditions (Wyman, Shiovitz-Ezra, and Bengel 2018).…”

Section: Introduction To the Section: On The Manifestations And Consementioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction to the Section: On the Manifestations and Consequences of Ageism

Ayalon

Tesch-Römer

2018

International Perspectives on Aging

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Ageism and Older Immigrants

Cited by 21 publications

References 34 publications

Older migrants’ use of elderly care in Sweden: family affects choice between home help services and special housing

Older migrants’ use of elderly care in Sweden: family affects choice between home help services and special housing

The generalizability of Older Adult Self‐Report (OASR) syndromes of psychopathology across 20 societies

Introduction to the Section: On the Manifestations and Consequences of Ageism

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