The Promotion of Active Aging in Taiwan

Promoting active ageing in older people with mental disorders living in the community: An integrative review

“…Evidence also suggested a lack of interest and support from the managers in community settings who viewed prevention and health promotion as low priorities (Wilhelmsson & Lindberg, ). Barriers to promoting active ageing for older people include inconvenient transportation and excessive distances for travel, a lack of incentives to participate such as a lack of companions to accompany them, and concerns about the safety of activities (Lin et al, ). Barriers preventing service providers from providing active ageing activities were as follows: a lack of stable financial resources; few full‐time staff; insufficient volunteer workers; a lack of transport; and older people being unwilling to attend (Lin et al, ).…”

Testing psychometric properties of a new instrument ‘Promoting Active Ageing in Older People with Mental Disorders Scale’ from a cross‐sectional study

“…The description of the factors and definition of promoting active ageing was systematically developed for the specific context and translated in measurable terms to create the new instrument. 1,15 The description of components relevant to factors that influence the promotion of active ageing in older people living in the community is similar to a previous study examining district nurses' perspectives regarding facilitators and barriers to working in health promotion. 16 The PAA-MD contains 104 items across three sections but despite the large number of items, only takes approximately 10-15 min to complete.…”

“…The results strongly suggest that the new instrument, the PAA‐MD, is a validated self‐reporting scale for measuring the level of promotion of active ageing in older people living in a Thai community and for identifying factors that influence the promotion of active ageing in this group. The description of the factors and definition of promoting active ageing was systematically developed for the specific context and translated in measurable terms to create the new instrument . The description of components relevant to factors that influence the promotion of active ageing in older people living in the community is similar to a previous study examining district nurses’ perspectives regarding facilitators and barriers to working in health promotion …”

“…According to Hair et al ., variables where the cross‐loading presents relatively high loadings on more than one factor, are usually removed unless theoretically justified or the objective is strictly data reduction . This section of the PAA‐MD used theoretical justification from the literature as well as the concept of active ageing from the WHO, to merge or group items into five factors or components, namely: participation, education, health, leisure, and security . Each factor was re‐analyzed to examine an item‐factor loading.…”

“…Only the item of birthday celebrations in section II of the PAA‐MD was removed because it has a factor loading less than 0.4 based on the criteria for retaining each item as highlighted by an expert in the field as appropriate . This item was selected from a previous study conducted in Taiwan . It may be representative of the difference in cultures between Taiwan and Thailand, in particular Thai older people living in rural communities.…”