"Tangled wires in the head": older migrant Chinese's perception of mental illness in Britain.

Abstract:

:In this article, the authors explored Cantonese-speaking older Chinese migrants knowledge, attitudes and expectations regarding mental illness. They obtained verbatim data from semi-structured interviews with eight participants recruited from London-based Chinese and church communities in Britain. They analyzed the data using the principles of Grounded Theory and in-depth content analysis. They examined cultural idioms in participants' accounts. Findings suggested that Western diagnostic categories of mental illness were alien to participants. They had a culturally constructed way of defining and characterizing mental illness. Participants used idioms of 'nerve', 'mood', 'behavior', 'personality', 'normal life', 'compassion' and the idiom of 'others' to construct an alternative world for stigma management. They erected an invisible but permeable barrier to limit access to their normal world. The role of traditional Chinese culture of Confucianism was significant in shaping perceptions and conceptions of mental illness. This article offered another perspective on the alternative world of Chinese migrants' cultural understandings of mental illness, an area with limited understanding at present. The authors discussed important implications for future research and social policy.

journal_name

J Aging Stud

journal_title

Journal of aging studies

authors

Li S,Hatzidimitriadou E,Psoinos M

doi

10.1016/j.jaging.2014.04.001

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2014-08-01 00:00:00

pages

73-86

eissn

0890-4065

issn

1879-193X

pii

S0890-4065(14)00029-2

journal_volume

30

pub_type

杂志文章
  • What goes around comes back around: life narratives and the significance of the past in Donna Leon's Death at La Fenice.

    abstract::This paper examines the life narratives of characters in Donna Leon's much-celebrated novel Death at La Fenice (1992). In the first of her Brunetti mystery series, Commissario Guido Brunetti investigates the death of the renowned conductor Helmut Wellauer, poisoned during a performance of La Traviata at La Fenice. As ...

    journal_title:Journal of aging studies

    pub_type: 传,历史文章,杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2014.02.005

    authors: Domínguez-Rué E

    更新日期:2014-04-01 00:00:00

  • An alternative discourse of productive aging: A self-restrained approach in older Chinese people in Hong Kong.

    abstract::While Western discourses regarding productive aging emphasize individuals' contributions to economic productivity, the Confucian cultural heritage of the Chinese community may provide an alternative perspective. This qualitative study explores interpretations of what constitutes productive aging, based on a series of ...

    journal_title:Journal of aging studies

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2016.04.002

    authors: Luo M,Chui EW

    更新日期:2016-08-01 00:00:00

  • Ageing without remembering: Fantasy, memory and loss in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant.

    abstract::In his most recent novel, The Buried Giant (2015), Ishiguro presents an elderly couple, Axl and Beatrice, who live in a Britain afflicted by a mist that makes everyone forget not only their common historical past but also their own life experiences and memories. By focusing on the journey of the two elderly and increa...

    journal_title:Journal of aging studies

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2020.100879

    authors: Falcus S,Oró-Piqueras M

    更新日期:2020-12-01 00:00:00

  • "If you do not find the world tasty and sexy, you are out of touch with the most important things in life": Resident and family member perspectives on sexual expression in continuing care.

    abstract::Over the past three decades, there has been growing attention to sexual expression in continuing care homes. However, resident perspectives continue to be underrepresented, particularly in the Canadian context. In this article, we share findings from a qualitative, exploratory study looking at the experiences of resid...

    journal_title:Journal of aging studies

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2020.100849

    authors: Brassolotto J,Howard L,Manduca-Barone A

    更新日期:2020-06-01 00:00:00

  • Self-realization and cultural narratives about later life.

    abstract::In late modern circumstances, aging individuals are confronted with the task of creating a meaningful individual life trajectory. However, these personal narratives are situated in the context of broader cultural narratives. It is argued that current cultural narratives about aging are often stereotyping and demeaning...

    journal_title:Journal of aging studies

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2014.08.005

    authors: Laceulle H,Baars J

    更新日期:2014-12-01 00:00:00

  • Organizational capacities for 'residential care homes for the elderly' to provide culturally appropriate end-of-life care for Chinese elders and their families.

    abstract::Developing culturally appropriate end-of-life care for Chinese elderly and families is not an endemic challenge for Hong Kong, but that of the Western countries with a noticeable trend of rising Chinese population. The particular development of Hong Kong healthcare system, which is currently the major provider of end-...

    journal_title:Journal of aging studies

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2016.12.001

    authors: Kong ST,Fang CM,Lou VW

    更新日期:2017-01-01 00:00:00

  • The secrets of highly active older adults.

    abstract::Although physical activity is a recognized component in the management of many chronic diseases associated with aging, activity levels tend to progressively decline with increasing age (Manini & Pahor, 2009; Schutzer & Graves, 2004). In this article we examine the key factors that facilitate physical activity in highl...

    journal_title:Journal of aging studies

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2013.09.003

    authors: Franke T,Tong C,Ashe MC,McKay H,Sims-Gould J,Walk The Talk Team.

    更新日期:2013-12-01 00:00:00

  • A Bidimensional Model of Acculturation for Korean American Older Adults.

    abstract::With the growth of immigrant populations and the increasing awareness and appreciation for the cultural diversity in the U.S., the present study assessed a model of acculturation with a sample of Korean American older adults. We addressed a bidimensional model of acculturation, considering both orientations toward hom...

    journal_title:Journal of aging studies

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2006.10.004

    authors: Jang Y,Kim G,Chiriboga D,Kallimanis B

    更新日期:2007-08-01 00:00:00

  • Community-level factors that contribute to First Nations and Inuit older adults feeling supported to age well in a Canadian city.

    abstract::Despite the proliferation of age-friendly cities in Canada that are intended to support older adults to age well, there are still many inequalities between groups of older adults, particularly, and of concern for this paper, between Indigenous older adults, who experience colonialism's ongoing impacts, and non-Indigen...

    journal_title:Journal of aging studies

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2019.01.001

    authors: Brooks-Cleator LA,Giles AR,Flaherty M

    更新日期:2019-03-01 00:00:00

  • Narrative ethics for narrative care.

    abstract::Narrative permeates health care--from patients' stories taken as medical histories to the development of health policy. The narrative approach to health care has involved the move from narratives in health care as objects of study to the lens through which health care is studied and, more recently, to narrative as a f...

    journal_title:Journal of aging studies

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2015.02.014

    authors: Baldwin C

    更新日期:2015-08-01 00:00:00

  • Dementia, distributed interactional competence and social membership.

    abstract::The article analyzes how a person with dementia playing a guitar collaborates with other people in a joint activity. The analysis shows that a person with dementia may gain social membership in a group of persons with and without dementia through social interaction, collaboration, scaffolding and use of material ancho...

    journal_title:Journal of aging studies

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2015.08.002

    authors: Gjernes T,Måseide P

    更新日期:2015-12-01 00:00:00

  • Administering questionnaires to older people: rigid adherence to protocol may deny and disacknowledge emotional expression.

    abstract::This paper draws on data from a larger study conducted in care home facilities in: Seattle, USA; West Sussex and Surrey in the UK; and in the lower North Island in New Zealand. Two extracts from interactions between the researchers and an older person during the administration of The Philadelphia Geriatric Morale Scal...

    journal_title:Journal of aging studies

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2014.09.005

    authors: de Vries K,Leppa CJ,Sandford R,Vydelingum V

    更新日期:2014-12-01 00:00:00

  • Age and embodied masculinities: midlife gay and heterosexual men talk about their bodies.

    abstract::This article integrates critical gerontology and masculinities theories to examine how midlife gay and heterosexual men experience their bodies in relation to cultural discourses of aging. Analyses of in-depth interviews with 15 gay and 15 heterosexual men ages 40-60 reveal that while both groups of men describe their...

    journal_title:Journal of aging studies

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2013.03.004

    authors: Lodge AC,Umberson D

    更新日期:2013-08-01 00:00:00

  • Understanding the experiences of racialized older people through an intersectional life course perspective.

    abstract::This article proposes the development of an intersectional life course perspective that is capable of exploring the links between structural inequalities and the lived experience of aging among racialized older people. Merging key concepts from intersectionality and life course perspectives, the authors suggest an ana...

    journal_title:Journal of aging studies

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2017.02.001

    authors: Ferrer I,Grenier A,Brotman S,Koehn S

    更新日期:2017-04-01 00:00:00

  • Ethno-cultural diversity in the experience of widowhood in later life: Chinese widows in Canada.

    abstract::This paper utilizes Helena Znaniecka Lopata's concept of life frameworks as a lens through which to understand the experience of widowhood amongst elderly Chinese immigrant women living in Toronto, Canada. While Lopata defined life frameworks as including social supports, social relations and social roles, for these w...

    journal_title:Journal of aging studies

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2012.12.011

    authors: Martin-Matthews A,Tong CE,Rosenthal CJ,McDonald L

    更新日期:2013-12-01 00:00:00

  • Assessing health-related resources in senior living residences.

    abstract::This study evaluated a new tool, "The Audit of Physical Activity Resources for Seniors" (APARS), which assesses the physical activity environment in Senior Living Residences (SLRs). Audits were conducted in 29 SLRs and inter-rater reliability was assessed. Pearson correlations were examined between APARS items and obj...

    journal_title:Journal of aging studies

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2011.03.004

    authors: Kerr J,Carlson JA,Sallis JF,Rosenberg D,Leak CR,Saelens BE,Chapman JE,Frank LD,Cain KL,Conway TL,King AC

    更新日期:2011-08-01 00:00:00

  • Advancing an ethical framework for long-term care.

    abstract::This article represents an effort to formulate an ethical framework for long-term care with the explicit purpose of providing a catalyst to promote further discourse and expand consideration of what an ethic of long-term care might entail. Grounding the discussion, an introduction to traditional ethical philosophy is ...

    journal_title:Journal of aging studies

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/s0890-4065(01)00034-2

    authors: Carter MW

    更新日期:2002-02-01 00:00:00

  • Age transcended: a semiotic and rhetorical analysis of the discourse of agelessness in North American anti-aging skin care advertisements.

    abstract::Drawing from a collection of over 160 North American print advertisements for anti-aging skin care products from January to December of 2009, this paper examines the discourse of agelessness, a vision of esthetic perfection and optimal health that is continually referred to by gerontologists, cultural theorists, and s...

    journal_title:Journal of aging studies

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2013.12.003

    authors: Ellison KL

    更新日期:2014-04-01 00:00:00

  • Changing everyday activities of couples in late life: converging and keeping up.

    abstract::The influence of mutual spousal interrelations in domains such as health and wellbeing has been demonstrated, but little is known about the domain of everyday activities of couples in late life. In the present explorative study, we considered all of the activities participating couples talked about to be their everyda...

    journal_title:Journal of aging studies

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2012.09.002

    authors: van Nes F,Jonsson H,Abma T,Deeg D

    更新日期:2013-01-01 00:00:00

  • 'It is a completely new world you step into.' How older clients and their representatives experience the operational access to Dutch long-term institutional care.

    abstract:PURPOSE OF THE STUDY:The access process is an important first step in the long-term institutional care for older people. Access can be seen as a concept consisting of three closely related dimensions: availability, affordability and acceptability (three A's). This study takes a new perspective by investigating how olde...

    journal_title:Journal of aging studies

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2015.09.002

    authors: Schipper L,Luijkx KG,Meijboom BR,Schols JM

    更新日期:2015-12-01 00:00:00

  • Women narrate later life remarriage: Negotiating the cultural to create the personal.

    abstract::Narrative provides a window to experience in a way that is different from traditional research methods. In this study, narrative affords both a holistic vantage point on later life relationships, and at the same time, a "view from the inside"-older women's own accounts of single life, relationship development, and rem...

    journal_title:Journal of aging studies

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2010.07.002

    authors: Watson WK,Bell NJ,Stelle C

    更新日期:2010-12-01 00:00:00

  • Canadians' support for radical life extension resulting from advances in regenerative medicine.

    abstract::This paper explores Canadian public perceptions of a hypothetical scenario in which a radical increase in life expectancy results from advances in regenerative medicine. A national sample of 1231 adults completed an online questionnaire on stem cell research and regenerative medicine, including three items relating to...

    journal_title:Journal of aging studies

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2012.12.008

    authors: Dragojlovic N

    更新日期:2013-04-01 00:00:00

  • Negotiating a moral identity in the context of later life care.

    abstract::Strategies to maintain independence for older people have received considerable attention as a social policy solution to the financial and social impact of the ageing population. Critical scholars in gerontology have also highlighted the negative consequences of promoting independence in this way. Understandings of in...

    journal_title:Journal of aging studies

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2012.06.003

    authors: Breheny M,Stephens C

    更新日期:2012-12-01 00:00:00

  • Walk-friendly suburbs for older adults? Exploring the enablers and barriers to walking in a large suburban municipality in Canada.

    abstract::The neighbourhood environment may enable active aging by allowing the integration of walking into an older adult's daily routine. This study explores the relationship between the neighbourhood built environment and walking among a small group of older adults in a large suburban municipality in Canada. In-depth intervi...

    journal_title:Journal of aging studies

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2015.07.002

    authors: Mitra R,Siva H,Kehler M

    更新日期:2015-12-01 00:00:00

  • Time to care? Temporal variations of agency of the Finnish adult foster carers.

    abstract::This article analyses a hybrid form of housing and care service for older people called adult foster care. In Finnish adult foster care model, an older person moves to a foster care home and is cared for by a semi-professional foster carer who is not related to them. A foster care home is thus simultaneously a persona...

    journal_title:Journal of aging studies

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2019.100830

    authors: Leinonen E

    更新日期:2020-03-01 00:00:00

  • The complexities of female aging: Four women protagonists in Penelope Lively's novels.

    abstract::Penelope Lively is a well-known contemporary British author who has published a good number of novels and short stories since she started her literary career in her late thirties. In her novels, Lively looks at the lives of contemporary characters moulded by specific historical as well as cultural circumstances. Four ...

    journal_title:Journal of aging studies

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2015.12.007

    authors: Oró-Piqueras M

    更新日期:2016-01-01 00:00:00

  • Relative prospects of children as they age: Canadians and Americans in midlife in the great recession frame future generations.

    abstract::Studies of intergenerational relations in aging and changing families often focus on the present, how generations interact, relate or depend on each other in families. Less often is the focus on the prospective, on projected perceptions of life course prospects for future generations as they age. In this paper, part o...

    journal_title:Journal of aging studies

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2016.01.002

    authors: McDaniel SA,Gazso A,Duncan KA

    更新日期:2016-04-01 00:00:00

  • Critical reflections on the blind sides of frailty in later life.

    abstract::Since the 1970's, frailty emerged as a major theme and has become one of the most researched topics in aging studies. However, throughout the years, the concept 'frailty' became susceptible to different interpretations and has been approached by different synonyms, which resulted in a confusing picture. Based on a nar...

    journal_title:Journal of aging studies

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2019.100787

    authors: De Donder L,Smetcoren AS,Schols JMGA,van der Vorst A,Dierckx E,D-SCOPE Consortium. Electronic address: info@d-scope.be.

    更新日期:2019-06-01 00:00:00

  • "I have no reason not to be happy": The social and bodily conditions of positive aging for Latin-American men in Mexico.

    abstract:CONTEXT:Latin-American countries are faced with the challenge of trying to adapt to an aging population, which is exacerbated by the unequal access to income through social security. Previous research from Mexico has focused on the negative consequences of aging in contexts of social adversity. OBJECTIVES:To explore, ...

    journal_title:Journal of aging studies

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2020.100868

    authors: Padilla GM,Chávez-Hernández AM

    更新日期:2020-09-01 00:00:00

  • Differences in perception of gerotranscendence behaviors between college students and community-dwelling older adults.

    abstract::Within the field of gerontology, several different theories have attempted to explain common psychological and social changes associated with the aging process. The Theory of Gerotranscendence is one such theory which purports that a shift in meta-perspective from a more materialistic and pragmatic view of the world t...

    journal_title:Journal of aging studies

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2015.03.003

    authors: Buchanan JA,Lai D,Ebel D

    更新日期:2015-08-01 00:00:00