Psychological well-being and metacognition in the fourth age: an explorative study in an Italian oldest old sample.

abstract：:While it is clear that families remain involved in the lives of loved ones following placement in a nursing home, little research has examined whether visiting and the provision of care has effects on the emotional stress and psychological well-being of family members. Utilizing pre-placement and post-placement data f...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Gaugler JE,Anderson KA,Zarit SH,Pearlin LI

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Although generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is one of the most prevalent anxiety disorders in older adults, very little is known about the neurobiology of worry, the hallmark symptom of GAD in adults over the age of 60. This study investigated the neurobiology and neural circuitry of worry in older GAD patie...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Mohlman J,Eldreth DA,Price RB,Staples AM,Hanson C

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a videoconference intervention program in improving nursing home residents' social support, loneliness, and depressive status. METHODS:Fourteen nursing homes were selected from various areas of Taiwan by purposive sampling. El...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Tsai HH,Tsai YF,Wang HH,Chang YC,Chu HH

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of psychosis in mild cognitive impairment (MCI, Petersen's criteria) and patients with Alzheimer's dementia, and to characterize the associated behavioral and psychological signs and symptoms of dementia (BPSD). METHOD:A cross-sectional analysis of baseli...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Van der Mussele S,Mariën P,Saerens J,Somers N,Goeman J,De Deyn PP,Engelborghs S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the past few decades, foreign home care to frail older adults has become a common alternative to family care in many developed countries. Whereas Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) are common conditions in this population of frail older adults, little is known about the beliefs of foreign ho...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Ayalon L

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The current study aims to add to the limited empirical research of possible benefits of personal social capital for the well-being of elderly. A validated personal social capital scale, measuring both bonding and bridging social capital in a general population, was adjusted to fit the characteristics of the ...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Simons M,Lataster J,Reijnders J,Peeters S,Janssens M,Jacobs N

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The objective of this study is to investigate gender-specific trajectories in well-being among older people with coronary heart disease (CHD) and to compare them with those of healthy people. METHOD:The study included a sample of 4496 participants from the first three waves of the English Longitudinal Study...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Zaninotto P,Sacker A,Breeze E,McMunn A,Steptoe A

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Fear of falling leads to many adverse consequences and may compromise the quality of life of older adults. Psychological factors are potential mediators between the fear of falling and quality of life, but have yet to be explored in detail. This study presents results from examining the mediating effect of t...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Hsu Y,Alfermann D,Lu FJ,Lin LL

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives: Informal caregivers who recognize patients' depressive symptoms can better support self-care and encourage patients to seek treatment. We examined patient-caregiver agreement among patients with heart failure (HF). Our objectives were to (1) identify distinct groups of HF patients and their out-of-home inf...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Bouldin ED,Aikens JE,Piette JD,Trivedi RB

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background and objectives: We explore the internal and external resources that older adults use to negotiate adversity and related to later life. We investigated the experiences older adults had with adversity and explored the factors that promote and protect resilience and the how these factors shaped the process of ...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Manning LK,Bouchard L

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background and objectives: People with dementia occupy around one quarter of general hospital beds, with concerns consistently raised about care quality. Improving workforce knowledge, skills and attitudes is a mechanism for addressing this. However little is known about effective ways of training healthcare staff abo...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Surr CA,Sass C,Burnley N,Drury M,Smith SJ,Parveen S,Burden S,Oyebode J

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives: Humans often hold structured generalizations about themselves, which include attributes of qualities or characteristics they consider as important to their personal self-definitions. In this regard, holding one's age as an important defining personal category (high age awareness) was demonstrated to be con...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Bergman YS,Bodner E

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives: The stress-related psychological symptoms experienced by informal family caregivers do not always improve or resolve after the death of the care recipient. The purpose of this study was to explore the independent associations of sociodemographic variables, personality and coping, environmental variables, a...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Corey KL,McCurry MK,Sethares KA,Bourbonniere M,Hirschman KB,Meghani SH

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study aims to identify the relationship among social functioning, polypharmacy and depression among older patients in Hong Kong. METHOD:Three out of 18 elderly health centres were selected using the cluster sampling method. 457 elders were randomly selected from all the patients aged 65 and over attendi...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Liu CP,Leung DS,Chi I

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: We examined: 1. depression rates among senior center clients; and 2. the acceptability of a lay-delivered intervention for depression ("Do More, Feel Better") from the perspective of key stakeholders prior to its implementation.Method: We conducted cross-sectional surveys at four Seattle-area senior centers...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Raue PJ,Dawson A,Hoeft T,Russo J,Ferguson D,Green L,Petersky C,Kaplan C

更新日期：2019-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives: Survivors of the Holocaust have reached an age during which it is common for them to look back on their lives. Previous research has shown that reminiscence can take on either adaptive ('self-positive') or detrimental ('self-negative') forms, which in turn are differently linked to psychological well-being...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Zimmermann S,Forstmeier S

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:Psychological well-being as one of the most important indicators of successful aging has received substantial attention in the gerontological literature. Prior studies show that sociodemographic factors influencing elderly's psychological well-being are multiple and differ across cultures. The ...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Momtaz YA,Ibrahim R,Hamid TA,Yahaya N

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study documents correlates of psychotropic drug use among older adults and compares the results observed in this group to those observed in individuals aged 18-64. A multivariate logistic regression analysis using data from the Quebec Health Survey (1992-1993) was employed to study predisposing and facilitating f...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Préville M,Hébert R,Boyer R,Bravo G

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formal cognitive testing is an integral part of the mental state examination, and we aimed to test whether clinicians were able to predict the score on the mini-mental state examination (MMSE) by watching a conversation between a person and the interviewer about their memory. A total of 41 professionals rated 30 patie...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Burns A,Karim S,Morris J,Byrne J

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives: This study investigated the association between healthy lifestyle comprised of multiple domains, gender, and cognitive function in older Chinese people in Hong Kong.Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional analysis with data from 1,831 community-dwellers aged 65 years and above. Participants' basic demograp...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Liu T,Luo H,Tang JY,Wong GH

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In old age, the will-to-live (WTL) is one of the most important indicators of subjective well-being (SWB). However, few studies to date have focused on WTL. In these studies, WTL has mainly been evaluated via indirect questions concerning factors that may influence peoples' WTL, or by measures directed to pa...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Carmel S

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives: Retirement is not only an important later-life transition for the retiring individual, but also for his or her life partner. This study aims to improve our understanding of the partner's adjustment to the retirement of the older worker, by paying attention to the multidimensional nature of adjustment, and ...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Damman M,Segel-Karpas D,Henkens K

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explores the associations of loneliness with depressive symptoms in a five-year follow-up and describes how the six dimensions of perceived togetherness explain loneliness and depressive symptoms at baseline. The data were collected on 207 residents of Jyväskylä, central Finland, who at baseline in 1990 wer...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Tiikkainen P,Heikkinen RL

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Effects of two mentally stimulating art interventions on processing speed and visuo-spatial cognition were compared in three samples. METHOD:In a randomized 10-week art intervention study with a pre-post follow-up design, 113 adults (27 healthy older adults with subjective memory complaints, 50 healthy olde...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Schindler M,Maihöfner C,Bolwerk A,Lang FR

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To compare health-related quality of life (HRQOL) between younger and older patients with established rheumatic disorders and to assess the relative impact of a number of psychosocial parameters on HRQOL. METHODS:In a cross-sectional study of 320 patients (245 < 65 and 75 > or = 65 years old, response rate:...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Goulia P,Voulgari PV,Tsifetaki N,Drosos AA,Hyphantis T

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:With the process of population aging and urbanization, a vast amount of studies have confirmed the increasing urban-rural cognition gaps, while less is known about the extent to which cognition gaps can be explained by urban-rural difference and urbanization status. This study aimed to examine the role of ur...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Ye X,Zhu D,He P

更新日期：2021-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives: Home dwelling people with dementia and their informal carers often do not receive the formal care services they need. This study examined and mapped the research regarding interventions to improve access and use of formal community care services.Method: This is a scoping review with searches in PubMed, CIN...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Røsvik J,Michelet M,Engedal K,Bieber A,Broda A,Gonçalves-Pereira M,Hopper L,Irving K,Jelley H,Kerpershoek L,Meyer G,Marques MJ,Portolani E,Sjölund BM,Sköldunger A,Stephan A,Verhey F,de Vugt M,Woods B,Wolfs C,Zanet

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of risk factors for the loss of meaning in life among older adults is needed. In this article, we test hypotheses derived from the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide concerning the role of perceptions that one is a burden on others as a risk factor for lower meaning in life. METHODS:A prospectiv...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Van Orden KA,Bamonti PM,King DA,Duberstein PR

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the associations between loneliness and subjective appraisals of marital relationship as well as reciprocal associations of loneliness in married men and women. The Health and Retirement Study is a national survey of older adults over the age of 50, residing in the US. This study is based on a paper and p...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Ayalon L,Shiovitz-Ezra S,Palgi Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate informal caregivers' psychological well-being and predicted increase in psychological well-being, when caring for persons with dementia (PwDs) living at home, related to caregiver, PwD and formal care (FC) factors. METHOD:A cohort study at baseline and 3 months' follow-up in eight European co...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Lethin C,Renom-Guiteras A,Zwakhalen S,Soto-Martin M,Saks K,Zabalegui A,Challis DJ,Nilsson C,Karlsson S

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00