Sense of belonging to the community in continuing care retirement communities and adult day care centers: The role of the social network

Ayalon, Liat

doi:10.1002/jcop.22268

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“…Indeed, the intimate and shared atmosphere seems to have expanded to include the larger surrounding environment in the ADC community and in the participants' families. Social involvement and close relationships in the community have a central role in preserving mental health in late life [104][105][106].…”

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Playback theatre in adult day centers: A creative group intervention for community-dwelling older adults

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The literature indicates that theatre and drama-based interventions have the potential to improve older adults' well-being and health. The goal of the current study was to characterize the process of a creative group intervention in adult day centers (ADCs), which integrates playback theatre and life-review principles. Our objective was to provide an evidence-informed framework for drama therapy interventions, which would allow older adults to bring up and explore their life-stories in a dramatic creative process in their own community. A total of 27 participants ranging in age from 63 to 91, took part in one of three playback theatre groups. The playback theatre group intervention comprised 12 weekly sessions. All sessions were videotaped to capture the lived experience of the creative process and were analyzed in post-intervention interviews. In addition, focus group meetings were conducted with 13 ADC staff members to decipher further the effects of the participation as perceived by people outside the groups. Three types of potential transformation were identified in the qualitative analysis: the evolution of life stories, evolution of playfulness, and expansion of social engagement. The results indicate the potential of the integrative framework to serve as a creative intervention in ADC communities, as well as its potential to bring about a personal transformation and expand it to enable a person's social engagement in the community. The findings imply the potential benefits of using playback theatre groups to supplement the routine care provided in ADCs.

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Section: Expansion Of Social Engagementmentioning

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Playback theatre in adult day centers: A creative group intervention for community-dwelling older adults

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“…Rannsóknir á tengslanetum hafa þó sýnt fram á mikilvaegi tengslaneta við að skapa þá tilfinningu að tilheyra í fjölbreyttu samhengi (sjá t.d. Ayalon, 2020;Molina-Morales o.fl., 2013;Morrison, 2002).…”

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Menntaskólaklíkur: Bakgrunnur og tengsl nýnema í háskólanámi

Torfason¹,

Sigurðardóttir²,

Stefansson³

2021

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Rannsóknir á tengslanetum í háskólanámi hafa staðfest mikilvægi þess að nemendur hafi strax í upphafi náms tengsl við samnema sína. Þetta á ekki síst við um jaðarsetta nemendur, sem finna stuðning í náminu í gegnum tengslanet við nemendur í sömu stöðu. Þá hafa tengslanet nemenda, í samspili við bakgrunn, áhrif á það hvort þeir ljúka námi og því er mikilvægt að skilja uppbyggingu þeirra tengslaneta sem nýnemar leggja upp með innan skólans í byrjun háskólanáms. Spurningakönnun með spurningum um tengsl við samnemendur á sama fræðasviði var því lögð fyrir nýnema á tveimur sviðum Háskóla Íslands, Félagsvísindasviði (FVS) og Verkfræðiog náttúruvísindasviði (VON). Niðurstöður sýna að tengslanet nýrra nemenda litast mjög af því úr hvaða framhaldsskóla þeir koma og eru nemendur úr stærstu skólunum með stærstu tengslanetin. Munur var á tengslum eftir sviðum en nemendur á VON höfðu fleiri tengsl. Einnig var munur á tengslanetum nemenda af höfuðborgarsvæðinu og landsbyggðinni. Þessar upplýsingar um tengslanet nemenda nýtast við móttöku nýnema þar sem mikilvægt er að skapa tækifæri fyrir nemendur úr minni skólum til að mynda tengsl strax við upphaf náms.

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“…The socio-centric approach allows the mapping of the complete social network of a village and analysis of how different structural properties can influence individual attributes and vice versa , and can thus greatly enhance previous findings (for a comparison of networks in different housing schemes, see also Ayalon et al , 2018). Besides gaining a full network of the residents inside the village, previous research can be extended by also asking about outside ties, such as former friends and family, in the fashion of Ayalon (2020). In line with this, it is also of interest to investigate what level of social capital residents bring into the village when moving in and what role this might play in both moving into a village and integrating into an existing resident community.…”

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Social capital in retirement villages: a literature review

Schwitter

2020

Ageing and Society

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Retirement villages are a model of extra-care housing, offering purpose-designed housing that incorporates both care services and a range of non-care-related facilities and activities. These generate opportunities for formal and informal social activity, and promote community engagement, solidarity between residents, and active and independent ageing. Providers suggest that retirement villages are able to foster an environment rich in social capital. This study's purpose is to review and summarise key findings on the topic of social capital in retirement villages in the gerontological literature. Social capital is defined as both an individual attribute of single actors and a feature of communities as a whole. A clear conceptualisation of social capital is used to organise the reviewed studies along different dimensions: on an individual level, social networks, trustworthiness and obligations are differentiated, while the collective level distinguishes between system control, system trust and system morality. Thirty-four studies are reviewed. While retirement villages are generally described as friendly places with widespread helping behaviour where new friends are made, research has also highlighted the difficulty of socially integrating the frail and very old. While, in particular, social networks and system morality have received much attention, there is a clear need for future research into the other domains of social capital.

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Sense of belonging to the community in continuing care retirement communities and adult day care centers: The role of the social network

Cited by 10 publications

References 41 publications

Playback theatre in adult day centers: A creative group intervention for community-dwelling older adults

Playback theatre in adult day centers: A creative group intervention for community-dwelling older adults

Menntaskólaklíkur: Bakgrunnur og tengsl nýnema í háskólanámi

Social capital in retirement villages: a literature review

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