Interventions to improve the health and wellbeing of older people living alone: a mixed-methods systematic review of effectiveness and accessibility

Johnstone, Georgina; Dickins, Marissa; Lowthian, Judy; Renehan, Emma; Enticott, Joanne; Mortimer, Duncan; Ogrin, Rajna

doi:10.1017/s0144686x19001818

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“…The important point in designing community-based interventions is to pay attention to dimensions of access and cocreation, so that they can be integrated into the services of the universal health network, while their clinical effectiveness is also measured. [ 23 ] Comprehensive health centers in the Iranian health system have expanded well in cities in recent years. With the development of the SIB electronic health network, the quality and quantity of service to citizens has been improved.…”

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Effect of a 12-week Community-based Intervention to Improve Social Capital, Quality of Life, Self-care, and Health Literacy among Older People

Motamedi

Taherian

2022

Advanced Biomedical Research

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Introduction: The aim of this study was to assess the effect of a community-based intervention on social capital, quality of life, self-care, and health literacy among elderly. Materials and Methods: This quasi-experimental trial was conducted at two health-care centers in Isfahan, Iran, which assigned to the intervention and control groups. A total of 86 elderly (60 years or above) enrolled in the study. The intervention program consisted of 12 weekly group sessions with various health topics. Nine sessions held in the health-care center and three local tours in different locations of the neighborhood. The control group received routine care of health centers. Social capital, quality of life, self-care, and health literacy were assessed at baseline and 1 month after the intervention in two groups. Results: Mental component of quality of life ( P = 0.026), self-care, and health literacy ( P < 0.001) showed a significant increase in the intervention group compared to the control group at 1 month after the intervention. The total score of social capital and the dimensions of local community participation, social agency, feelings of security and trust, interactions with neighbors, and interactions with family and friends improved in the intervention group ( P < 0.001). However, there was no significant difference in the dimensions of tolerance of diversity ( P = 0.241) and value of life ( P = 0.928). Conclusions: This community-based interventions with a variety of diverse and participatory components can be used as a strategy to promote the health of the elderly in primary health care.

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“…The purpose of this study was to design and implement a multicomponent and complex intervention[ 23 ] to promote social capital, quality of life, self-care, and health literacy in elderly in Isfahan (IRAN), with regard to dimensions of access and cocreation, so that it can be integrated in the services of the universal health network.…”

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Effect of a 12-week Community-based Intervention to Improve Social Capital, Quality of Life, Self-care, and Health Literacy among Older People

Motamedi

Taherian

2022

Advanced Biomedical Research

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“…Lack of support and care after an accident can cause lasting damage and fatalities. Moreover, Swedish ( Karlstedt, 2015 ) and Australian ( Johnstone et al, 2020 ) studies found that home healthcare reforms have reduced support services for older adults. When working where older adults live, janitors and maintenance staff may be the first to identify health and social problems.…”

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Support Needs Among Older Tenants Living in Public Housing in Sweden: Perspectives of Janitors and Maintenance Staff

et al. 2023

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Neighborhood support can improve aging in place for older adults, but research on the role of public housing staff in supporting older tenants is lacking. Twenty-nine participants (janitors, n = 11; maintenance staff, n = 18) collected data about critical situations among older tenants residing in apartments in Sweden. Modifying the Critical Incident Technique (CIT) and applying a mixed-methods design, quantitative and qualitative data were collected and analyzed with descriptive statistics and thematic analysis, integrated through narrative. We found that older tenants asked staff for help with daily tasks. The staff identified CI management dilemmas in meeting older tenants’ support needs while following the housing company’s regulations, maintaining professional responsibilities, respecting individual work attitudes and preferences, and experienced a lack of competencies in some situations. Staff members were responsive to offering support in simple, practical, and emotional situations and in addressing matters they perceived as deficits in social and health services.

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“…Elderly people tend to live alone [ 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 ]. For example, in the United States of America, the percentage of elderly people living alone was 40% in 1990 and 36% in 2016 [ 12 ].…”

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Binary Sensors-Based Privacy-Preserved Activity Recognition of Elderly Living Alone Using an RNN

Tan

Badarch

Zeng

et al. 2021

Sensors

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The recent growth of the elderly population has led to the requirement for constant home monitoring as solitary living becomes popular. This protects older people who live alone from unwanted instances such as falling or deterioration caused by some diseases. However, although wearable devices and camera-based systems can provide relatively precise information about human motion, they invade the privacy of the elderly. One way to detect the abnormal behavior of elderly residents under the condition of maintaining privacy is to equip the resident’s house with an Internet of Things system based on a non-invasive binary motion sensor array. We propose to concatenate external features (previous activity and begin time-stamp) along with extracted features with a bi-directional long short-term memory (Bi-LSTM) neural network to recognize the activities of daily living with a higher accuracy. The concatenated features are classified by a fully connected neural network (FCNN). The proposed model was evaluated on open dataset from the Center for Advanced Studies in Adaptive Systems (CASAS) at Washington State University. The experimental results show that the proposed method outperformed state-of-the-art models with a margin of more than 6.25% of the F1 score on the same dataset.

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Interventions to improve the health and wellbeing of older people living alone: a mixed-methods systematic review of effectiveness and accessibility

Cited by 8 publications

References 79 publications

Effect of a 12-week Community-based Intervention to Improve Social Capital, Quality of Life, Self-care, and Health Literacy among Older People

Effect of a 12-week Community-based Intervention to Improve Social Capital, Quality of Life, Self-care, and Health Literacy among Older People

Support Needs Among Older Tenants Living in Public Housing in Sweden: Perspectives of Janitors and Maintenance Staff

Binary Sensors-Based Privacy-Preserved Activity Recognition of Elderly Living Alone Using an RNN

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