The Relationship of Social Engagement to Psychological Well-Being of Older Adults in Assisted Living Facilities

Park, Nan Sook

doi:10.1177/0733464808328606

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“…41 This aspect of social participation has also been referred to as social engagement. [40][41][42] A typical measure of informal social participation will ask individuals to indicate how many social activities they have participated in, or community groups of which they are members. Other measures include both social connections and informal social participation as a combined measure of social participation.…”

Section: Informal Social Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…49 The majority of these studies were conducted in the US. 40,42,[50][51][52][53][54][55] One study included Taiwanese participants. 56 Only one study reported a longitudinal study design.…”

Section: Informal Social Participation and Health Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…78 The assisted living facility studies that included measures of social support in addition to informal social participation found a significant negative association between perceived social support and depression. 42,51 A study of 999 adults aged 65 years and over living in Britain found that high levels of social cohesion were associated with individuals indicating better overall and physical health. 79 Evidence from the Household, Income, and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey, although only crosssectional and not restricted to older adults, found that the effect of three indices of participation were reduced to nonsignificance by the addition of social cohesion into hierarchical linear regression models.…”

Section: Social Participation: Bringing Three Separate Concepts Togethermentioning

confidence: 99%

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Social participation as an indicator of successful aging: an overview of concepts and their associations with health

Douglas¹,

Georgiou

Westbrook

2017

Aust. Health Review

275

219

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Objectives. Social participation has generated a wealth of research in gerontology, but the concept suffers from a lack of conceptual clarity that renders it difficult to define and measure. This means that research on social participation is difficult to compare directly. The aim of the present study was to draw the literature on social participation in older adults together to inform health services researchers seeking to investigate social participation as an indicator of successful aging.Methods. A narrative review of studies investigating the association between social participation and health in adults aged 65 years and older was conducted.Results. Three concepts of social participation (i.e. social connections, informal social participation and volunteering) were defined, their measurement instruments described and evidence of their associations with health explored. All three concepts have demonstrated associations with an array of health indicators. Prospective studies reveal that social participation at baseline is positively associated with mental and physical health. Conclusion.A model of social participation on health is presented, showing the evidence that all three concepts contribute to the association between social participation and health through their shared mechanisms of social support and social cohesion with the wider community. Using an instrument that can be separated into these three distinct concepts will assist health services researchers to determine the relative effect of each form of participation on the health of older adults.What is known about the topic? Social participation has generated a wealth of research in gerontology. The scope of the literature on social participation is broad and the concepts diverse. For this reason, most previous systematic reviews have been unable to comprehensively assess the effect of all concepts of social participation on health. This means the research on social participation is difficult to compare directly, and indicators of social participation in older adults are difficult for policy makers to select. What does this paper add? This paper overviews the three concepts of social participation, their methods of measurement and their associations with health in older adults. We present a model of social participation that incorporates all three concepts of social participation and their effects on health. We argue that the use of a measure that can be segmented into each of the three forms of social participation will predict more of the variance in health outcomes than any measure on its own. What are the implications for practitioners? Enhancing the social participation of older adults is a key factor in successful aging that many older adults value. However, many service provision organisations tend to focus on meeting the specific physical needs of clients, rather than targeting services that connect older adults with their community. Targeting social participation may present one of the greatest opportunities to improve older adults'...

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Section: Informal Social Participationmentioning

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Section: Informal Social Participation and Health Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Social Participation: Bringing Three Separate Concepts Togethermentioning

confidence: 99%

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Social participation as an indicator of successful aging: an overview of concepts and their associations with health

Douglas¹,

Georgiou

Westbrook

2017

Aust. Health Review

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219

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“…However, existing research has shown positive health effects from social engagement between residents at LTC and ALF residences, with enjoyment of mealtimes and perceived friendliness of fellow residents and staff being a significant predictor of life satisfaction for ALF residents (Park, 2009). In addition, a cohesive, supportive facility environment is associated with greater facility satisfaction and lower depression scores for residents (Mitchell and Kemp, 2000).…”

Section: Future Directionsmentioning

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Attitudes of Heterosexual Assisted Living Residents Toward Gay and Lesbian Peers

Donaldson

Asta

Vacha‐Haase

2014

Clinical Gerontologist

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ATTITUDES OF HETEROSEXUAL ASSISTED LIVING RESIDENTS TOWARD GAY AND LESBIAN PEERSSexual minorities in post-retirement care facilities fear discrimination and suboptimal care due to homophobia and heteronormative policies. This qualitative study explored the attitudes of 13 heterosexual assisted facility residents toward gay and lesbian peers in their facility. Although most participants reported that they were comfortable talking about homosexuality, the feelings, beliefs, and behaviors toward gay and lesbian residents that they described ranged from favorable, to ambivalent, to unfavorable.Results seemed to indicate that heterosexual residents still view sexual minorities as -others‖ who are unlikely to inhabit the same spaces they do. Recommendations for further research are provided in order to ameliorate the conditions of aged care facilities for all residents, including sexual minorities.iii

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“…that allow the elderly to live independently as long as possible, but without decreasing their quality of life. Most AL initiatives are based on a top-down approach: the state through its public health system or some private health care organization deploy the new technologies in elderly patients' homes, and health professionals are responsible for checking up on the patient [3] [4]. The installation is a complex task performed by qualified engineers that involves installing and configuring hardware for patient monitoring, the set-up of virtual private networks for sending data to hospitals, and the installation of effectors to help the patient perform some tasks...…”

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AndroidCare: A Simple and Low Cost Assisted Living Solution

Otero¹,

Escario²,

Márquez³

et al. 2016

JBiSE

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Population aging places a growing stress on society's resources. There is a need for Assisted Living (AL) technologies that allow the elderly to live independently as long as possible. The AndroidCare open source project aims to explore what functionality can be provided in a low cost AL solution where no professional health organization is involved in the deployment or maintenance of the solution, nor in supervising the patient; all these tasks are carried out by a relative of the elder. Therefore, in the system's design simplicity of use has prevailed over having a lot of features. It is based on standard off-the-shell commodity hardware (a smartphone) and it provides 1) assistance to the elder in complying with the treatment of chronic diseases; 2) monitors and alerts of the occurrence of risk situations such as falls; and 3) simplifies the supervision of the elder's therapy and behavior by the caregiver.

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The Relationship of Social Engagement to Psychological Well-Being of Older Adults in Assisted Living Facilities

Cited by 151 publications

References 48 publications

Social participation as an indicator of successful aging: an overview of concepts and their associations with health

Social participation as an indicator of successful aging: an overview of concepts and their associations with health

Attitudes of Heterosexual Assisted Living Residents Toward Gay and Lesbian Peers

AndroidCare: A Simple and Low Cost Assisted Living Solution

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