Emotion, affect, and risk communication with older adults: challenges and opportunities

Finucane, Melissa L.

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“…We posit that motivational changes in people's orientation towards gains and losses influence information processing and decision strategies. Complementing research on older decision makers' stronger reliance on affective information [Finucane, 2008], we hypothesize that the motivational orientation towards gains or losses may influence the kind of affective information (gain-vs. loss-related information) older adults rely on more.In sum, this review elaborates on how motivational changes in goal orientation associated with normal aging may affect the decision-making process. This paper is divided into six sections: (a) the dynamics of gains and losses in normal aging, (b) goal orientation across adulthood, (c) motivational factors in decision making, (d) gains and losses in decision making and aging, (e) key issues for future research, and (f) applied consequences.…”

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Normal Aging and Decision Making: The Role of Motivation

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Freund²

2011

Human Development

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The main argument of this review is that motivational development associated with normal aging affects decision making. With increasing age, the ratio of gains to losses becomes more and more unfavorable. Reflecting the increasing losses in resources, goal orientation changes from a predominant orientation towards gains in young adulthood to an increasingly stronger orientation towards the prevention of loss in older adulthood. As goals serve as reference points for the evaluation of decision outcomes, this change in goal orientation across adulthood might also affect decision making. The decision-making literature has recognized that choices are influenced by goal orientation. However, little research has been conducted on how goals influence the decision-making process in general and with regard to aging in particular. To date, findings on decision making and aging remain inconsistent and are in need of a developmental framework. With regard to applications, a better understanding of the aging decision maker can provide insight into how to improve communication efforts about issues like advance care planning, medical treatment, and housing options.

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Normal Aging and Decision Making: The Role of Motivation

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2011

Human Development

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“…However, in late adulthood, when development has reached full maturity and life experiences, challenges, and wisdoms accumulate, factors such as life stories, narratives, and the search for meaning are likely to be more relevant and dominate how events are perceived (Gubrium, 2001;Kenyon, 2002;Kenyon, Clark, & de Vries, 2001;Randall, 2001). Consequently, the uniqueness of late-life gamblingrelated perceptions (McNeilly & Burke, 2000, 2002) has yet to be properly captured and capitalized on, particularly for the purpose of communicating messages about risk (Finucane, 2008). A key strength of the current study, therefore, is to fill part of this gap in knowledge, as well as the gap in understanding the perspective of non-treatment-seeking gamblers.…”

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Exploring the Gray Areas: Senior Gamblers' Perceptions Of What Is and What Isn't Gambling

Tira¹,

Jackson²

2015

JGI

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The basis of any health promotion or harm minimization initiative is effective engagement of the target audience. However, because ''gambling'' can be interpreted in a variety of ways, service providers, such as community educators and clinical practitioners, cannot always assume a shared understanding of the meaning of gambling with their clients. This paper aims to help reduce such discrepancies by highlighting conditions in which gambling is usually viewed as gambling by those engaged in the behavior and by describing scenarios that may be more ambiguous. Such awareness can help service providers to maximize engagement efforts while minimizing the stigma typically associated with gambling. Findings are based on secondary analyses of a study that examined pathways leading to late-life problematic gambling by using a grounded theory method. The results suggest that rational decision making may be compromised in otherwise nonvulnerable individuals.Keywords: gambling, public health, engagement, education, awareness, screening RésuméLe fondement de toute initiative de promotion de la santé ou de découragement de pratiques nuisibles est la mobilisation efficace du public ciblé. Toutefois, parce que le ) jeu * peut donner lieu à des interprétations variées, les fournisseurs de services comme les animateurs socio-éducatifs et les cliniciens ne peuvent supposer que leur compréhension de ce qu'est le jeu est toujours la même que celle de leurs clients. Le présent article vise à réduire de tels écarts en mettant en lumière les conditions dans lesquelles le jeu est habituellement perc¸u comme tel par les personnes qui s'y adonnent et en décrivant les scénarios qui peuvent être plus ambigus. Être conscients de ces éléments peut aider les fournisseurs de services à optimiser leurs efforts de mobilisation tout en minimisant la stigmatisation généralement associée au jeu. Les constatations de l'article reposent sur des analyses secondaires d'une étude portant sur les trajectoires menant à des problèmes de jeu tardifs effectuées à l'aide d'une

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“…Furthermore, it was also observed that younger individuals showed greater negativity bias at neural and behavioral level whereas elderly did not increase the level of attention before a negative information. It is known that the age-related changes in cognitive abilities such as memory and processing speed as well as increased reliance on automatic and adaptive motivational processes in older adults focus more on affective information (especially positive), what can explain why older and younger adults respond differently to information about risk 3,37 . Regarding knowledge acquired during the task, only two studies conducted this analysis in which was found a significant difference between young and old, with young people showing better learning.…”

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“…In aging it has been increasingly common the maintenance of a productive lifestyle, so that they continue facing complex decisions such as selection of financial options, managing their lifetimes, treatment of multiple diseases and the decision of how to live the following year in the best way. Understanding the decision-making process in the later stages of life, therefore, becomes extremely important [3][4][5] . The neural mechanisms involved in the decision-making process are a major target of research in the field of cognitive and behavioral neuroscience 6,7 .…”

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Normal aging and decision-making: a systematic review of the literature of the last 10 years

Wiesiolek

Foss

Diniz

2014

J. bras. psiquiatr.

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objective: Conduct a systematic review to investigate whether healthy elderly have deficits in the decision-making process when compared to the young. Methods: We performed a systematic search on SciELO, Lilacs, PsycINFO, Scopus and PubMed database with keywords decision making and aging (according to the description of Mesh terms) at least 10 years. results: We found nine studies from different countries, who investigated 441 young and 377 elderly. All studies used the IOWA Gambling Task as a way of benchmarking the process of decision making. The analysis showed that 78% of the articles did not have significant differences between groups. However, 100% of the studies that assessed learning did find relevant differences. Furthermore, studies that observed the behavior of individuals in the face of losses and gains, 60% of articles showed that the elderly has more disadvantageous choices throughout the task. Conclusion: The consulted literature showed no consensus on the existence of differences in performance of the decision-making process between old and young, but it is observed that the elderly has deficits in learning and a tendency to fewer advantageous choices. rESUMo objetivo: Realizar uma revisão sistemática para investigar se idosos saudáveis apresentam disfunções no processo de tomada de decisão quando comparados a jovens. Métodos: Foi realizada uma busca sistemática nas bases de dados SciELO, Lilacs, PsycINFO, Scopus e PubMed, com as palavras-chave decision making and aging (de acordo com a descrição dos termos Mesh) dos últimos 10 anos. resultados: Foram encontrados nove estudos de diferentes países, que investigaram 441 jovens e 377 idosos. Como resultado, observou-se que 78% dos artigos não encontram diferenças significativas entre os grupos. Porém, 100% dos estudos que avaliaram o aprendizado encontram diferenças significativas. Além disso, dos estudos que observaram o comportamento dos indivíduos perante as perdas e ganhos, 60% mostraram que os idosos apresentam mais escolhas desvantajosas ao longo do teste. Conclusão: Os artigos avaliados não apresentaram um consenso em relação à existência de diferenças no processo de tomada de decisão entre idosos e jovens, porém observa-se que os idosos apresentam dificuldade no aprendizado e tendência a escolhas menos vantajosas.

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Emotion, affect, and risk communication with older adults: challenges and opportunities

Cited by 63 publications

References 84 publications

Normal Aging and Decision Making: The Role of Motivation

Normal Aging and Decision Making: The Role of Motivation

Exploring the Gray Areas: Senior Gamblers' Perceptions Of What Is and What Isn't Gambling

Normal aging and decision-making: a systematic review of the literature of the last 10 years

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