An exploratory study of house-sitting and ‘home’-making among older people

Alidoust, Sara; Khalaj, Fahimeh

doi:10.1080/00049182.2021.1999612

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“…Strategies and solutions for the phenomena associated with the aging of the population like universal basic income, trainings of financial literacy, improving environmental performance will have to take into account not only the development of employment of older people, but also the risk of declining well-being of them so as not to fall to lower quality of life caused by e.g. lack of quality food (Radermacher, et al, 2010;Knight, et al, 2020;Gajda & Jezewska-Zychowicz, 2021), inaccessibility of housing (Costa-Font 2013;Riedy, et al 2019;Alidoust & Khalaj 2021) or a higher degree of anxiety due to financial uncertainty (Kadoya, et al 2018). On the other hand, according to predictions, it is the aging and declining population in the V4 that can be a source of stabilizing the economic growth of the countries (Bendarzsevszkij, 2021) and solving many burning questions about the problems associated with aging and well-being today.…”

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“…The dimension of quality of life is the subject of research on active aging, where one of the factors is the well-being of older people, which is threatened by decline and poverty in retirement age (Fonseca, et al 2014;Swain, et al 2020;Lu, et al 2021), lack of quality food (Gajda & Jezewska-Zychowicz 2021;Radermacher, et al 2010;Knight, et al 2020), worsened housing affordability (Riedy, et al 2019;Alidoust & Khalaj 2021;Costa-Font 2013), lower savings on old age (Pienkowska-Kamieniecka 2018). Financial security is the second most important after health (Hackert, et al 2019), anxiety and insecurity about financial security has been expressed by older people with medium economic resources (Mansvelt, et al 2014), while financial literacy reduces financial security uncertainty (Kadoya, et al 2018).…”

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Well-Being and Employment of Older People in The Countries of the Visegrad Group and the European Union

2022

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Population aging brings phenomena and challenges for which adequate strategies and solutions are sought. One of the challenges is to use the employment potential of older people in the labor market by extending their working lives in retirement age. The motives of older people who opt for active aging by continuing their working lives are diverse. Increasing well-being through employment at retirement age can be a logical step for older people who want to protect themselves against a drop in their standard of living or raise it. The article is focused on the comparison of employment and well-being of older people aged 65 and over development in the Visegrad Group countries (V4 includes Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) and the European Union. The data for the employment category come from the Eurostat database and a well-being index is created to detect the development of the well-being index level, in which data from the UNECE Active Aging Index database are used. Both categories are monitored for the periods 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018. The methods used are literature analysis, induction, deduction and comparison by regions, the whole cohort of older people aged 65 and over and gender. It is found that the employment of older people aged 65 and over has a growing trend in all regions throughout the period under review. The development of the well-being index in the countries of the Visegrad Group and the European Union in the period under review has a predominantly increasing trend, but after 2016 there has been a general decline. There is a decrease in the well-being index for older people aged 65 and over after 2014, also by sex for males after 2012 and for females after 2016 in the Czech Republic which is caused by decline of the indicators relative median income and no poverty risk. The phenomenon that has emerged in Slovakia is exceptional in that the employment of females aged 65 and over fluctuated around the level of 3% in the observed period, but it is in this category that the highest increase of the well-being index of all countries and sex in 2016 by 9% is recorded what was caused by increase of the indicators relative median income and no severe material deprivation.

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Well-Being and Employment of Older People in The Countries of the Visegrad Group and the European Union

2022

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“…The well-being factor of older people is considered to be a motivating factor (Lakomy, 2019;Axelrad et al, 2020) of using the employment potential of older people. What most often threatens the level of well-being is the financial income of older people (Fonseca et al, 2014;Pienkowska-Kamieniecka, 2018;Swain et al, 2020;Hoeyberghs et al, 2020;Lu et al, 2021;Wolfe & Patel, 2021), housing financing (Costa-Font, 2013;Riedy et al, 2019;Alidoust & Khalaj, 2021), financial exclusion (Potyrańska & Hajduk-Stelmachowicz, 2019) or the availability of quality food (Radermacher et al, 2010;Knight et al, 2020;Gajda & Jezewska--Zychowicz, 2021).…”

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Employment Potential Index of Older People in the European Union

Bartek¹

2022

ZNPCZ

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The aging of the population in Europe brings an increase in the group of people 65+, which is important to reflect on not only from the perspective of state governance in developing strategies and finding solutions to aging-related phenomena such as the growing economic dependence of older people, but it is also necessary to pay attention to this in terms of the theory and practice of human resources and age management within using the employment potential of older people in the labor market. The article focuses on the employment potential index of older people (EPIOP) and on the characterization of the factors which were used to create EPIOP and subsequently to monitor its development in the European Union (EU 28) during the years 2008-2018. The data were obtained from Eurostat and UNECE databases. The findings indicate that the indices of the individual countries had a predominantly increasing trend and converged with the EU 28 average, and none of the countries monitored in the index fell below the base year 2008 throughout the period under review. Latvia (23%), Bulgaria (23%) and Cyprus (19%) had significantly higher growth rates compared to the base year. The lowest EPIOP grew in Germany, the Netherlands, France, Denmark, Slovenia and the Czech Republic. The EU 28 average had a maximum growth rate of 9%.

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Older people, house-sitting and ethics of care

Alidoust

2022

International Journal of Housing Policy

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An exploratory study of house-sitting and ‘home’-making among older people

Cited by 4 publications

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Well-Being and Employment of Older People in The Countries of the Visegrad Group and the European Union

Well-Being and Employment of Older People in The Countries of the Visegrad Group and the European Union

Employment Potential Index of Older People in the European Union

Older people, house-sitting and ethics of care

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