The Convoy Model and<scp>Later‐Life</scp>Family Relationships

Fuller, Heather; Ajrouch, Kristine J.; Antonucci, Toni C.

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“…The procedure has been reported in detail elsewhere. 27 Briefly, respondents were shown a series of 3 concentric circles, with the word "you" at the center, and were then asked to imagine themselves at the center of the circles and list the names of important people in their lives according to how close they felt to them. The inner circle represented "people to whom you feel so close that it is hard to imagine life without them."…”

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A Multi-Institutional Study of Older Hearing Aids Beginners—A Prospective Single-Arm Observation on Executive Function and Social Interaction

Uchida

Mise

Suzuki

et al. 2021

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

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Age-related hearing impairment hearing aid digit symbol substitution test (DSST) convoy model hearing handicap inventory for the elderly (HHIE) a b s t r a c t Objectives: To obtain new insights into research questions on how executive function and social interaction would be observed to change after the introduction of hearing aids (HAs) in older people with hearing impairment. Design: Multi-institutional prospective single-arm observational study. Setting and Participants: Outpatients with complaints of hearing difficulty who visited HA clinics between October 18, 2017, and June 30, 2019, in 7 different university hospitals in Japan. Methods: The inclusion criteria of the study named Hearing-Aid Introduction for Hearing-Impaired Seniors to Realize a Productive Aging SocietydA Study Focusing on Executive Function and Social Activities Study (HA-ProA study) were age !60 years and no history of HA use. A series of multi-institution common evaluations including audiometric measurements, the digit symbol substitution test to assess executive functions, convoy model as an index of social relations, and hearing handicap inventory for the elderly (HHIE) were performed before (pre-HA) and after 6 months of the HA introduction (post-HA). Results: Out of 127 enrollments, 94 participants completed a 6-month follow-up, with a mean age of 76.9 years. The digit symbol substitution test score improved significantly from 44.7 at baseline to 46.1 atThe funding sources had no role in the study design or conduct of the study; in the collection, management, analysis, or interpretation of the data; in the writing of the manuscript; or the decision to submit.

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A Multi-Institutional Study of Older Hearing Aids Beginners—A Prospective Single-Arm Observation on Executive Function and Social Interaction

Uchida

Mise

Suzuki

et al. 2021

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

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“…A long tradition of research on social networks and informal support in old age care has emphasised the importance of inter-household ties ( Connidis and Barnett, 2018 ). The convoy model posits that social ties with non-residential family members and friends sustain care and resource exchanges, companionship, emotional support, and a sense of ontological security ( Kahn and Antonucci, 1980 ; Fuller et al, 2020 ), all of which are essential to supporting older adults’ mental well-being ( Rook et al, 2011 ). Furthermore, according to the stress-coping theory, the presence of a social convoy and the material and non-material support exchanged through social networks play a crucial role in mitigating generalised stress and stress related to specific life course processes and events such as ageing and illness ( Wong and Ujimoto, 1998 ; Carver and Vargas 2011 ).…”

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COVID-19, Inter-household Contact and Mental Well-Being Among Older Adults in the US and the UK

Qian

2021

Front. Sociol.

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Interacting with family members and friends from other households is a key part of everyday life and is crucial to people’s mental well-being. The COVID-19 pandemic severely curtailed face-to-face contact between households, particularly for older adults (aged 60 and above), due to their high risk of developing severe illness if infected by COVID-19. In-person contact, where possible, was largely replaced by virtual interaction during the pandemic. This article examines how inter-household contact in face-to-face and virtual forms, as well as combinations of the two forms of contact, related to older adults’ mental well-being during the pandemic. Data from two national longitudinal surveys, collected from the same respondents before (2018–2019) and during (June 2020) the pandemic, were comparatively analysed: the Health and Retirement Study in the US and Understanding Society in the UK. The findings showed a notable increase in loneliness in the US and a decline in general mental well-being in the UK following the outbreak of COVID-19. In both countries, more frequent inter-household face-to-face contact during the pandemic was associated with better general mental well-being, but inter-household virtual contact, via means such as telephone and digital media, was not associated with general mental well-being in either the US or the UK. In the US, older adults who engaged more frequently in virtual contact were more likely to feel lonely during the pandemic, particularly if their face-to-face contact was limited. In both countries, the increase in loneliness following the outbreak of the pandemic was greater for older adults who reported more virtual contact. The findings suggest that household-centred crisis management during the COVID-19 pandemic had unintended mental health implications in both the US and the UK, despite contextual differences between the two countries. Although face-to-face contact between households helped to sustain older adults’ mental well-being, virtual contact was not a qualitatively equivalent alternative. The findings also provide an important evidence base for informing policy developments and for supporting the mental health of older people during the COVID-19 pandemic and in the longer term.

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“…The social convoy model is a systematic theoretical paradigm of social support (Kahn & Antonucci, 1980) employed in the study. The model has widely been used in numerous studies, such as among the elderly (Fuller et al, 2020), children and youth (Levitt, 2005), and living residents (Perkins et al, 2013). However, it is still under-explored in a prison context.…”

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“…In conjunction with prior studies, this model often serves as a sensitising mechanism (Charmaz, 2006) and a primary source for the analysis, emphasising the importance and existence of the relationships among drug-abuse prisoners and their social support. The model also attempts to explain a heuristic structure for social relationship conceptualisation and comprehension (Fuller et al, 2020). In the context of the drug-abuse prisoners, the social convoy model explained social support depending on the network of social relationships based on the familiarity and intimacy of the relationships.…”

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The Importance of Social Support during Imprisonment: A Case of Malaysian Drug-Abuse Prisoners

Baharudin¹,

Mohamad²,

Karim³

2021

IJARBSS

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Social support is one of the vital elements for achieving life satisfaction during imprisonment. This study aims to determine the importance of social support since the Malaysian prison population conquered by drug-abuse prisoners affected the prison climate and life satisfaction. The sample was randomly collected from the sampling frame, consisting of drugabuse prisoners in Malaysian drug cases prison using a self-administered questionnaire. Data were analysed using the IBM-SPSS-AMOS version 25, the second-generation multivariate analysis method of the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The findings have been reaffirmed by bootstrapping methods. The research echoes that the relationship between the prison climate and life satisfaction is entirely mediated by social support. A study also indicates that social support is essential to transform prison climate and life satisfaction among drug-abuse prisoners. Practical contributions to the Malaysian Prison Department are proposed to design appropriate policies and strategies to improve prison climate and social support to fulfil drug-abuse prisoners' life satisfaction since Malaysian life satisfaction has become the government's priorities the 12 th Malaysia Plan (2021-2025).

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The Convoy Model andLater‐LifeFamily Relationships

Cited by 79 publications

References 68 publications

A Multi-Institutional Study of Older Hearing Aids Beginners—A Prospective Single-Arm Observation on Executive Function and Social Interaction

A Multi-Institutional Study of Older Hearing Aids Beginners—A Prospective Single-Arm Observation on Executive Function and Social Interaction

COVID-19, Inter-household Contact and Mental Well-Being Among Older Adults in the US and the UK

The Importance of Social Support during Imprisonment: A Case of Malaysian Drug-Abuse Prisoners

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