Community Men’s Sheds and Informal Learning

Golding, Barry; Carragher, Lucia

doi:10.1007/978-94-6209-971-5_8

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“…Empirical research attests to the necessity for older men with strong career identities to forge alternate identities by maintaining good social networks and engaging enjoyable activities in their community (Barnes & Parry, 2004). It is important to note that some community-based initiatives, including the Australian men’s sheds (Golding, Brown, Foley, Harvey, & Gleeson, 2007) and the United Kingdom’s “men in sheds” programs (Williamson, 2010), have attracted older men to workshop-type spaces in community settings to provide regular activity-based opportunities by groups deliberately and mainly comprising men. Many of the attendees are older men experiencing illness (including depression) and life changes—including retirement, unemployment, isolation, and separation—who report camaraderie and a sense of belonging as key benefits of their participation in the groups (Golding et al).…”

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Masculinities, Work, and Retirement Among Older Men Who Experience Depression

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The high incidence of depression among older men has been linked to numerous factors. In this qualitative descriptive study of 30 older, Canadian-based men who experienced depression, we explored the connections between participants' depression, masculinities, work, and retirement. Our analyses revealed three thematic findings. The recursive relationship between depression and work was reflected in depression impeding and emerging from paid work, whereby men's careers and work achievements were negatively impacted by depression amid assertions that unfulfilling work could also invoke depression. Lost or unrealized empires highlighted the centrality of wealth accumulation and negative impact of many participants' unfulfilled paid work aspirations. Retirement as loss and the therapeutic value of work reflected how masculine ideals influenced men to continue working to avoid the losses they associated with retirement. The findings confirm the need to support men's work-related transitions by affirming a diversity of masculine identities beyond traditional workman/breadwinner roles.

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Masculinities, Work, and Retirement Among Older Men Who Experience Depression

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“…Materials Used. The LAS, sodium para-dodecyl benzene sulfonate, was custom synthesized at Oxford and Unilever R&D 27,28 in two different isotopic forms, with and without the dodecyl alkyl chain and phenyl ring deuterium labeled, d-LAS and h-LAS, and in two different isomeric forms as described earlier. For the two different structural isomers of LAS used the only difference in the dodecylbenzene sulphonates is the position along the hydrocarbon chain comprising the surfactant tail to which the sulphonated aromatic The cmc (2.4 mM) and area/molecule at the cmc (64 Å 2 ) for the LAS-6 are broadly consistent with the previous reported measurements.…”

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“…The h-LL was obtained from Sigma-Aldrich with a purity of 97% and used as supplied. The deuterated LL was synthesized at two levels of deuteration, d 11 -LL and d 17 -LL at Unilever R&D 28. The molecular structures of the surfactants and perfumes used in the measurements are shown in figure1.…”

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Adsorption of Model Perfumes at the Air–Solution Interface by Coadsorption with an Anionic Surfactant

Bradbury¹,

Penfold

Thomas³

et al. 2013

Langmuir

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The adsorption of the model perfumes phenyl ethanol, PE, and linalool, LL, at the air-solution interface by coadsorption with the anionic surfactant sodium dodecyl 6-benezene sulfonate, LAS-6, has been studied primarily by neutron reflectivity, NR. The variation in the mixed surface adsorption with solution composition is highly nonideal, and the more hydrophobic LL is more surface active. At a LAS-6 concentration of 0.5 mM the adsorption of PE and LL is broadly similar but with the LL systematically more surface active, and at 2 mM the LL completes more effectively for the surface than the PE. The variation in surface composition with solution composition and concentration reflect the greater hydrophobicity and hence surface activity of LL, and the greater solubility of PE in aqueous solution. Changing the geometry of the LAS isomer, from the symmetrical LAS-6 geometry to the more asymmetrical LAS-4, results in the LL competing more effectively for the surface due to changes in the packing constraints associated with the hydrophobic region. The results provide insights into the factors that affect coadsorption that can be more broadly applied to the surface delivery of a wide range of molecules other than perfumes.

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“…The h-LL was obtained from Sigma-Aldrich with a purity of 97% and used as supplied. The deuterated LL was synthesized at Unilever R&D [32]. The structure of the surfactant and perfumes are shown in Fig.…”

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Enhanced perfume surface delivery to interfaces using surfactant surface multilayer structures

Bradbury¹,

Penfold

Thomas³

et al. 2016

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

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Enhanced surface delivery and retention of perfumes at interfaces are the keys to their more effective and efficient deployment in a wide range of home and personal care related formulations. It has been previously demonstrated that the addition of multivalent counterions, notably Ca(2+), induces multilayer adsorption at the air-water interface for the anionic surfactant, sodium dodecyl-6-benzenesulfonate, LAS-6. Neutron reflectivity, NR, measurements are reported here which demonstrate that such surfactant surface multilayer structures are a potentially promising vehicle for enhanced delivery of perfumes to interfaces. The data show that the incorporation of the model perfumes, phenylethanol, PE, and linalool, LL, into the surface multilayer structure formed by LAS-6/Ca(2+) results in the surface structures being retained up to relatively high perfume mole fractions. Furthermore the amount of perfume at the surface is enhanced by at least an order of magnitude, compared to that co-adsorbed with a surfactant monolayer.

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Community Men’s Sheds and Informal Learning

Cited by 6 publications

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Masculinities, Work, and Retirement Among Older Men Who Experience Depression

Masculinities, Work, and Retirement Among Older Men Who Experience Depression

Adsorption of Model Perfumes at the Air–Solution Interface by Coadsorption with an Anionic Surfactant

Enhanced perfume surface delivery to interfaces using surfactant surface multilayer structures

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