Participation and Citizenship of Elderly Persons

Valokivi, Heli

doi:10.1300/j010v39n01_12

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“…Some examined CHL by exploring health knowledge and abilities of older adults in their community context [25, 38, 41, 43]. Most studies addressed CHL through factors that indirectly influenced older adults’ health and wellbeing, including personal and lifestyle factors, cultural conditions, and the health care system [26, 27, 29–37, 39–47]. Three studies [30, 43, 46] addressed CHL through focusing on collective actions.…”

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“…In several studies, community members such as community leaders, community workers or neighbors, provided older adults with social support [26, 27, 29, 30, 34, 46, 47]. Here, community-based knowledge and practices contributed to the health knowledge, skills, health and wellbeing of older adults.…”

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“…She takes care of matters related to his everyday care and visits him on a daily basis. She is the first person whom he contacts concerning the need for help and any changes in it.” [29]…”

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“…Some older adults wanted to give something back to the community, for example by doing voluntary work, because they had received care earlier in their life [30]. At the same time, several older adults expected something back from the community in return for what they had done for the community [29, 47]. These expectations were not always fulfilled: “They described expending a large amount of energy caring for other people, but they had no one to care for them.…”

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“…In several studies family members provided older adults with social support [26, 27, 29–31, 34, 42–44, 46, 47]. Children and spouses assisted with health information, arranging care, transport to health services, doctor’s visits, medication, monitoring illness, safety issues or mental health issues.…”

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Community-based initiatives improving critical health literacy: a systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative evidence

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BackgroundCritical health literacy enables older adults to make informed health decisions and take actions for the health and wellbeing of themselves and their community, within their own social and cultural context. A community-based approach has the potential to improve the critical health literacy of older adults and their communities. However, it is not clear how such initiatives consider critical health literacy. Therefore, this study explored how community-based initiatives address the critical health literacy of older adults and their communities.MethodsA systematic literature search was conducted. Two reviewers independently screened titles and abstracts, as well as the quality of the methodological and community-based elements of the studies. In addition, a meta-synthesis was carried out, consisting of a qualitative text analysis of the results sections of the 23 included studies.ResultsWe identified two main themes, which are practices that contribute to the critical health literacy of older adults as well as their communities: 1) collaborative learning, and 2) social support. In these practices we identified reciprocity as a key characteristic of both co-learning and social support.ConclusionsThis study provides the first overview of community-based initiatives that implicitly address the critical health literacy of older adults and their community. Our results demonstrate that in the context of one’s own life collaborative learning and social support could contribute to people’s understanding and ability to judge, sift and use health information. We therefore suggest to add these two practices to the definition of critical health literacy.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12889-017-4570-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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Staff members' negotiation of power in client engagement: Analysis of practice within an Australian aged care service

Petriwskyj

Gibson

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2015

Journal of Aging Studies

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With increasing focus on client control and active client roles in aged care service provision, client engagement is highlighted as fundamental to contemporary care practice. Client engagement itself, however, is complex and is impacted by a range of issues including the relationships and power dynamics inherent in the care context. These dynamics do not simply reflect the roles that are available to or taken up by clients; just as important are the roles and positions that staff of aged care services are offered, and take up, in client engagement. This paper presents the findings of a study that explored client engagement practice within a large Australian service provider. Analysis of interview and focus group discussions addressed the ways in which staff were positioned - by both themselves and by clients - in terms of the roles that they hold within engagement practice and the power relations inherent within these. Analysis of power from the dominant policy perspective of choice and control, and the alternative perspective of an ethic of care suggests that power relations within the care context are dynamic, complex and involve on-going negotiation and regulation by clients and staff members in aged care. The use of these two contrasting perspectives reveals a more dynamic and complex understanding of power in care practice than dominant uni-dimensional approaches to critique suggest.

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Participation and Citizenship of Elderly Persons

Cited by 11 publications

References 10 publications

Community-based initiatives improving critical health literacy: a systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative evidence

Community-based initiatives improving critical health literacy: a systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative evidence

Involving People in the Process

Staff members' negotiation of power in client engagement: Analysis of practice within an Australian aged care service

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