Quality of Life in Ageing Societies: Italy, Portugal, and Turkey

Arun, Özgür; Çevik, Aylin Çakıroğlu

doi:10.1080/03601277.2010.492730

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“…In this vein, older adults seem to be particularly vulnerable in the actual context of economic crisis in Portugal. Current findings are consistent with what has been previously observed about quality of life (Arun & Çevik, 2011) and life domain satisfaction in Portugal (Paiva et al, 2009). For example, Paiva et al (2009) point out that many elderly persons in Portugal were financially very deprived without resources to consecrate to leisure, and tend to experience loneliness.…”

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Socio-Demographic Predictors of Loneliness Across the Adult Life Span in Portugal

Neto

2014

Interpersona

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Loneliness, a complex phenomenon, is experienced differently by people under diverse conditions. The factors influencing loneliness are numerous and may vary between cultures. The purpose of this study was to show socio-demographic factors contributing to loneliness in Portugal. The sample consisted of 3,144 participants with a mean age of 46.90 (SD = 22.56) and a range between 15 and 92 years. Loneliness was evaluated with the Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale (Russell, Peplau, & Cutrona, 1980). Age and marital status were significant predictors of loneliness. Loneliness increased with age, and divorced or windowed participants reported higher loneliness than single or married people. As expected, gender did not significantly contribute to loneliness. This work identified vulnerable people who are experiencing a perceived dissatisfaction with their social interactions that needs special attention. These vulnerable groups include the old, divorced and widowed. In particular, policy makers and other experts who work with old persons should promote interventions according to their needs.

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Socio-Demographic Predictors of Loneliness Across the Adult Life Span in Portugal

Neto

2014

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“…living in an extended family or in a nuclear family, living alone as a couple) to the Greek-Cypriot one. Specifically, findings from a study comparing the QoL in aging societies including Turkey, Italy and Portugal indicate that life satisfaction is also related to socioeconomic, and demographic variables, with education as one of the variables with the highest contribution to life for elderly women in Turkey [45]. Furthermore, social relations with spouse, children, grandchildren, relatives, and neighbors also had a significant effect on life satisfaction of their elderly participants [45].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Specifically, findings from a study comparing the QoL in aging societies including Turkey, Italy and Portugal indicate that life satisfaction is also related to socioeconomic, and demographic variables, with education as one of the variables with the highest contribution to life for elderly women in Turkey [45]. Furthermore, social relations with spouse, children, grandchildren, relatives, and neighbors also had a significant effect on life satisfaction of their elderly participants [45]. Future research may need to systematically explore variables such as living arrangements (with extended family vs. nuclear family) and the frequency of social interactions, as these variables may contribute to our understanding of QoL in aging adults.…”

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Cognitive-Linguistic Performance and Quality of Life in Healthy Aging

Constantinidou

Prokopiou

Nikou

et al. 2015

Folia Phoniatr Logop

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Background/Aims: This study investigated quality of life (QoL) in relation to cognitive-linguistic performance and demographic characteristics (age, education and gender) in a large cohort of cognitively healthy older adults. Method: A total of 578 Greek-Cypriots aged 60-91 years were recruited from the Neurocognitive Study on Aging. Of those, 395 healthy participants (171 males and 224 females) who met all study criteria were retained. They completed measures of executive functioning, working memory, receptive vocabulary and confrontational naming in addition to the WHOQOL-BREF (brief version of the WHO QoL questionnaire). Results: There were modest but significant relationships between executive functioning, working memory, vocabulary measures and the WHOQOL-BREF (p < 0.01). MANOVA yielded significant gender and education effects on QoL. Sequential stepwise regression confirmed that gender, depression scores and years of education made significant contributions to predicting the total score on WHOQOL-BREF and accounted for 31% of the variance (R² = 0.310). Conclusion: Self-reports of QoL remain stable in older adulthood. Demographic variables such as gender and years of education affected several domains of QoL, and, along with depression symptomatology, accounted for a significant part of the WHOQOL-BREF variance. Cognitive-linguistic measures correlated on the physical and psychological health domains of the WHOQOL-BREF in healthy older adults.

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“…Ageing is an issue that needs to be assessed with ample significance in terms of developing countries, as well, and not just developed countries. Turkey is making a transition to a new demographic structure . The decrease in the child and young population over time and the increase in the share of the elderly population within the overall population are foreseen as the reasons for the fertility rate to drop to renewal level.…”

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Quality of life and attitudes to ageing in Turkish older adults at old people's homes

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Dikmetaş

2012

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Objectives The purpose of this study was to investigate quality of life (QOL) and attitudes to ageing in Turkish older adults at two old people's homes (nursing homes) and to explain relationship between QOL and attitudes to ageing.Methods This study is a quantitative and descriptive exploratory study of QOL and attitudes to ageing of older adults in nursing homes in a developing country.Instruments Two international data measurement tools were used for data collection. Data measurement instruments in this study are The World Health Organization Quality of Life InstrumentOlder Adults Module (WHOQOL-OLD) and the WHOAttitudes to Ageing Questionnaire (AAQ). The WHOQOL-OLD module consists of 24 items assigned to six facets (sensory abilities, autonomy, past, present and future activities, social participation, death and dying and intimacy) AAQ consists of 24 items classified in three domains (psychosocial loss, physical change and psychological growth) with eight items each.Participants The Turkish version of the WHOQOL-OLD and AAQ was administered to 120 older (>65 years) adults living in two old people's homes in Samsun Province, Turkey. This study was conducted and planned between on 1 November 2011 and on 31 November, 2011.Results The results indicated that there was significant relationship between QOL and attitudes to ageing of older adults. In this study, the highest significant relationship is between psychological growth subscale of attitudes to ageing and sensory abilities subscale of QOL (r = 0.579; P < 0.01). Overall QOL and overall attitudes to ageing had a significant and positive relationship (r = 0.408; P < 0.01). The dimensions of attitudes to ageing (psychosocial loss, physical change and psychological growth) were significant predictors for QOL in older adults in Turkey. It was found that the gender does not affect overall QOL in older adults. However, happiness is significant variable for overall QOL in this study. 288

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Quality of Life in Ageing Societies: Italy, Portugal, and Turkey

Cited by 16 publications

References 17 publications

Socio-Demographic Predictors of Loneliness Across the Adult Life Span in Portugal

Socio-Demographic Predictors of Loneliness Across the Adult Life Span in Portugal

Cognitive-Linguistic Performance and Quality of Life in Healthy Aging

Quality of life and attitudes to ageing in Turkish older adults at old people's homes

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