Language differences in qualitative research: is meaning lost in translation?

abstract：:The present study aims at detecting factors which may predict a decline or an improvement in self-rated health (SRH) of older adults (persons aged 50 or higher) among socio-demographic characteristics, physical and mental health indicators and risky health behaviours. In the analysis, multinomial logistic regression m...

journal_title：European journal of ageing

authors： Verropoulou G

更新日期：2012-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examined the prospective association between physical activity and subjective age across adulthood and factors that mediate this association. Participants were adults aged from 20 to 90 years (N > 10,000) drawn from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study graduates and siblings samples, the Health and Retir...

journal_title：European journal of ageing

authors： Stephan Y,Sutin AR,Terracciano A

更新日期：2019-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last two decades, Elder Law has developed into a known and recognized field of expertise and specialization within the legal discipline. However, due to the relatively young history of this new field of law, very few attempts have been made to analyze the ways in which it has developed in the past and the direc...

journal_title：European journal of ageing

authors： Doron I

更新日期：2006-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The factorial structure of the Prospective and Retrospective Memory Questionnaire (PRMQ) was investigated in a sample of 336 older adults (aged 66-81 years). Confirmatory factor analyses showed that a bifactor model of two correlated factors of prospective and retrospective memory problems and two uncorrelated group f...

journal_title：European journal of ageing

authors： Zimprich D,Kliegel M,Rast P

更新日期：2011-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Age segregation-the widespread separation of people by age-is deemed by many gerontologists a major problem in contemporary societies. Contributing to this dialog, the current exploratory article examines the presence of non-kin members in European seniors' close personal networks. Specifically, we document network co...

journal_title：European journal of ageing

authors： Sun H,Schafer MH

更新日期：2019-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we present empirical results for the very old (75+) concerning transitions between independent living in ordinary home without public support, independent living in ordinary home or special accommodations with home help and home health care, and living in around the clock care. We investigate the role o...

journal_title：European journal of ageing

authors： Hallberg D,Lagergren M

更新日期：2009-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Movements of everyday life (e.g., climbing stairs, rising from a chair, walking) are essential for older adults to stay functional and independent. Due to the aging process, muscle mass decreases and balance abilities are reduced. One major criticism of former interventions is that implemented resistance and balance e...

journal_title：European journal of ageing

authors： Morat T,Mechling H

更新日期：2014-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The composition of the residential environment may have an independent influence on health, especially in older adults. In this cross-sectional study, we examined the associations between proximity to two features of the residential environment (green space and senior service centers) and three aspects of healthy agin...

journal_title：European journal of ageing

authors： Vogt S,Mielck A,Berger U,Grill E,Peters A,Döring A,Holle R,Strobl R,Zimmermann AK,Linkohr B,Wolf K,Kneißl K,Maier W

更新日期：2015-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:High morale could be considered to be an essential part of aging well and increased knowledge of how to prevent a decrease in high morale in very old age could have important implications for policy, and social and health care development. The objective was to identify social and health-related risk factors for a decr...

journal_title：European journal of ageing

authors： Näsman M,Niklasson J,Nygård M,Olofsson B,Lövheim H,Gustafson Y,Nyqvist F

更新日期：2019-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The Disablement Process model proposes a pathway for how chronic diseases in late life can lead to disability, with the variables in the main pathway designated as pathology, impairment, functional limitations, and disability. The model also suggests that psychosocial and contextual variables in the periphery of the m...

journal_title：European journal of ageing

authors： Fauth EB,Zarit SH,Malmberg B

更新日期：2008-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates how far personality can predict the timing and routes of people's retirement. It uses a large comprehensive Norwegian survey, with larger sample size than earlier related studies, providing estimates of personality based on the five-factor model. The survey data are matched with administrative ...

journal_title：European journal of ageing

authors： Blekesaune M,Skirbekk V

更新日期：2012-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Absence of age-related decline in elder's life satisfaction (LS), found in several studies from the last quarter of the twentieth century, has been labelled a "paradox", as it contrasts with increasing psycho-social and health risks in old age. To explain these findings, the present study was based on the hypothesis o...

journal_title：European journal of ageing

authors： Schilling OK

更新日期：2005-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have investigated the effect of ageing on age estimation from faces as well as the occurrence of an own-age bias in such age estimation from faces. To the best of our knowledge, the occurrence of an own age effect on age estimation from voices has never been examined earlier using an experimental desi...

journal_title：European journal of ageing

authors： Moyse E,Beaufort A,Brédart S

更新日期：2014-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was conducted to examine the inhibitory deficit theory on cognitive performance in old age. An experimental manipulation was applied to investigate if the efficiency of inhibitory control directly affects age-related working memory performance as measured by the operation span task. Forty-two older (...

journal_title：European journal of ageing

authors： Zeintl M,Kliegel M

更新日期：2007-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated macro- and micro-level variables associated with individuals' perception of the ending of youth, the beginning of old age, and the length of the middle age period. The European Social Survey is a biennial multi-country, cross-sectional survey. Our analysis is based on the fourth wave, which includ...

journal_title：European journal of ageing

authors： Ayalon L,Doron I,Bodner E,Inbar N

更新日期：2013-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Socioeconomic status differentials in health are well documented. Less is known about the socioeconomic variation in health in older people, and in older women in particular. The aim of the study was to examine the association between socioeconomic status and health in older women in relation to two indicators of soci...

journal_title：European journal of ageing

authors： Rostad B,Deeg DJH,Schei B

更新日期：2008-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Although mortality in older ages generally declined in most countries during the past decades less is known about mortality trends among the most vulnerable subset of the oldest old. The aim of this study was to investigate possible changes between 1992 and 2002 in the relation of complex health problems and mortality...

journal_title：European journal of ageing

authors： Meinow B,Parker MG,Thorslund M

更新日期：2010-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Men have higher death rates than women, but women do worse with regard to physical strength, disability, and other health outcomes, the so called male-female health-survival paradox. The paradox is likely to be due to multiple causes that include biological, behavioral, and social differences between the sexes. Despit...

journal_title：European journal of ageing

authors： Oksuzyan A,Brønnum-Hansen H,Jeune B

更新日期：2010-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Frailty is a core concept in understanding vulnerability and adjustment to stress in older adults. Adopting the perspective provided by the transactional model of stress and coping (Lazarus and Folkman in Stress, appraisal, and coping, Springer, New York, 1984), the present study examined three aspects of frailty in o...

journal_title：European journal of ageing

authors： Desrichard O,Vallet F,Agrigoroaei S,Fagot D,Spini D

更新日期：2018-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative ageing research is a flourishing field, partly because of European funding in this area. Comparing different societies and cultures seems especially fruitful for the analysis of societal and cultural factors in development over the life course. From a nomothetic perspective, the aim of comparisons is the s...

journal_title：European journal of ageing

authors： Tesch-Römer C,von Kondratowitz HJ

更新日期：2006-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:More than two decades of research has consistently indicated that feelings of loneliness among older people are more common in southern Europe than in its northern parts, with the lowest rates in Denmark and Sweden. Our analyses based on analysis of 2004-2006 data from 8,787 individuals aged 65 years or older in the S...

journal_title：European journal of ageing

authors： Sundström G,Fransson E,Malmberg B,Davey A

更新日期：2009-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The study analyses whether and to what degree specific routes into retirement affect older people, i.e. the relationship between heterogeneous exit patterns and post-retirement health and wellbeing. We used longitudinal data from two points in time; data related to t0 were collected in 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996 and da...

journal_title：European journal of ageing

authors： Halleröd B,Örestig J,Stattin M

更新日期：2012-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In Switzerland, as in many other European states, there is an increasing emphasis in public policy on promoting later retirement from the labour market. But this accelerating drive in Swiss policy-making to extend occupational activity does not mean that every worker is currently likely to retire late, nor does it imp...

journal_title：European journal of ageing

authors： Madero-Cabib I,Kaeser L

更新日期：2015-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The point of departure for this study was the need for an instrument capturing social activities updated to the living circumstances of the 21st century. Starting out from the Frenchay Activities Index (FAI), the objective was to investigate the inter-rater agreement of the scoring of a modified and extended Swedish v...

journal_title：European journal of ageing

authors： Wendel KA,Ståhl A,Iwarsson S

更新日期：2013-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:This research examined the judgemental process underlying subjective life expectancy (SLE) and the predictive value of SLE on actual mortality in older adults in the Netherlands. We integrated theoretical insights from life satisfaction research with existing models of SLE. Our model differentiates between bottom-up (...

journal_title：European journal of ageing

authors： van Solinge H,Henkens K

更新日期：2017-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Social activity and health correlate in old age, but less is known about what explains this association. The aim of this study was to investigate whether mobility, cognitive functioning, and depressive symptoms mediate the association between social activity and mortality risk, or whether they alternatively should be ...

journal_title：European journal of ageing

authors： Katja P,Timo T,Taina R,Tiina-Mari L

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to identify the relationship between self-management abilities, well-being and depression. Our study was conducted among older adults (>65 years of age) who were vulnerable to loss of function after hospital discharge. Three months after hospital admission, 296/456 patients (65 % response rate) were i...

journal_title：European journal of ageing

authors： Cramm JM,Hartgerink JM,de Vreede PL,Bakker TJ,Steyerberg EW,Mackenbach JP,Nieboer AP

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many countries in Europe are beginning to acknowledge the essential contribution of informal caregivers, as policy changes leave more people with greater needs being cared for in the community. Carers who are themselves retired are a vulnerable group. Compared to caregivers in younger age groups, a higher proportion h...

journal_title：European journal of ageing

authors： Hanratty B,Drever F,Jacoby A,Whitehead M

更新日期：2007-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Age differences in the spatial distribution of attention over a wide field of view have only been described in terms of the spatial extent, leaving the topographical aspect unexplored. This study examined age differences between younger and older adults in good general health in an important topographical characterist...

journal_title：European journal of ageing

authors： Feng J,Craik FIM,Levine B,Moreno S,Naglie G,Choi H

更新日期：2016-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The article addresses the strength and character of intergenerational family solidarity under different family cultures and welfare state regimes in order to answer the following two questions: (1) Is intergenerational solidarity stronger under the more collectivist southern family tradition than under the more indivi...

journal_title：European journal of ageing

authors： Daatland SO,Lowenstein A

更新日期：2005-09-27 00:00:00