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7: Social Health & Aging Flashcards

1
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what type of health is less intuitive & hard to measure

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social health

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2
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What Makes a Person to Feel Socially Healthy (society & individual)

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Living in a healthy society:
- Rule of law
- Equity
- Social capital

Individual:
- Ability to access available social resources
- Be able to contribute

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3
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social/leisure activities after retirement, depends on

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○ Financial security
○ Availability
○ Access

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4
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what is the best target for intervention

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Leisure Activities in Old Age
- people often keep the leisure preferences (athletic activity, socializing, or travelling) in older age that they had when younger

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T or F: Religion as a Leisure Activity is increasing

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F: declining
- older age groups show the highest rates of participation in religious activities

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6
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________/_______ remains one of the most diverse practices

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Religion/spirituality

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7
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benefits of volunteering

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○ Stronger social networks
○ Sense of purpose
○ Increases life satisfaction, wellbeing, psychosocial health
○ Physical health

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8
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Main issue with Social health & aging

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STRUCTURAL LAG
- Mismatch between changes in the aging process (better health for older people, more active lifestyles, better educated) and the roles/places in the social structure that can meet the needs of this new older person

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9
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regarding senior’s use of time, what increases (2) and decreases with age?

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(+) passive leisure activities (TV, reading, music)
(+) time spent sleeping (~9.3 hrs)
(-) participation in activities reduces with physical function decline

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10
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what 3 factors leads to less social engagement and more passive leisure

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  1. Widowhood
  2. Living alone
  3. Low income
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11
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Life-course respite hypothesis

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older people have more flexibility in how they can spend their time

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12
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What 4 factors influences activity preferences

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  1. Income
  2. Gender
  3. Region
  4. Social status
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13
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Views of leisure activity in rural communities

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  • value placed on productive activity
  • Housework, walking to stores and working in gardens can constitute as physical activity
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14
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Continuity theory of aging

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people often keep the leisure preferences in retirement that they had in middle age
- Most research on aging and leisure activity support

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15
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Lifespan developmental perspective

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people can change, grow and develop at every age

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CONTRACTORS

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  • Stopped at least 1 outdoor activity in the past year, and have not learned any new activity since 65
  • Continued same activities they learned in childhood

**fits continuity & disengagement theory (engage in non-demanding activities)

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EXPANDERS

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  • Have not stopped any activities in the past year, and had added at least 1 new outdoor activity since 65
  • Continued to add activities throughout life
  • fits lifespan developmental perspective
18
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T or F: you can predict contractor/expander group membership by income, age, race, gender

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F

19
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what are health benefits of physical training in later life

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○ improvements in memory/intelligence/cognitive speed
○ brain structure and function
○ benefits to executive mental functioning
○ can prevent declines due to aging and the development of neurological disease

20
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important functions served by senior centres

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  • meals
  • provide socialization
  • volunteer opportunities
  • peer networking
  • healthcare services
21
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Who gains special benefit from senior center programs

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Marginalized seniors
- women
- low-income adults
- ethnic minorities

22
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Naismith Men’s Shed

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an informal club of retired men having weekly social gatherings and working together on community projects

○ Growing international movement to help combat loneliness and social isolation

23
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Gerotranscendence

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the self begins to expand its boundaries and reflect on the meaning of human life in later life
- Shift from materialism and a practical view of life to a more contemplative, cosmic view

24
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What is this:
“an inner, subjective region of life that revolves around individual experiences of being, transcending the personal self, and connecting with the sacred”

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Spirituality

25
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Oldest age group = highest participation rate in religious activity, with __% engaging in religious services weekly

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37%

26
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why do education systems offer little for older people

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  • Most schools focus on teaching children to become adults and preparing young people for specific jobs in society
  • already an adult …retired from a job
27
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T or F: old people take education programs for career development

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F: personal growth
- little interest in credentials

28
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Barriers to elderly taking courses at university

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  1. walks across campus
  2. parking
  3. bad weather
  4. timing, length of classes
  5. fear of failure
29
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3 goals of Age-Friendly Universities (AFU)

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  1. Emphasize positive role of elderly in higher education
  2. Expand research surrounding elderly
  3. Create opportunities for projects/activities that provide a welcoming space for elderly in higher education in general
30
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Road Scholar

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not-for-profit company promoting lifelong learning by organizing educational and cultural tours aimed at people in their 50s+
○ Based on combination of university-level education with international travel experiences
○ Hiking trips, tours of Quebec City, African safaris

31
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grey tourism

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niche travel market catering to elderly

32
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Instituted for Learning in Retirement (ILRs)
or
Lifelong Learning Institutes (LLIs)

+ downside of them

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programs offering elderly a variety of educational formats (lectures, seminars, travel courses) with topics decided on by the group
- no grades or tests

○ poor and marginalized elderly may find programs unaffordable, intimidating, uninteresting

33
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2nd age vs 3rd Age learning

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Work vs Leisure
Professional vs Amateur
Workforce development/training vs. Self-development
Social capital vs Personal enrichment
Society-subsidized vs Individual pays
First career vs Second career
Have to know vs Want to know
Schooling vs Education
Social purpose vs Individual purpose
Career preparation vs Learning for its own sake

34
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LLIs encourage weak social ties … what is this?

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link people from diverse backgrounds and expose a person to new views and opinions
○ differ from intimacy of family and friendship ties - tend to come from the same social and economic background

35
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seniors use technology to ….

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  • stay in touch with their families and friends
  • Source of entertainment
  • information
  • education
36
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T or F: Internet use declines with age within seniors

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T

37
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Community service and volunteering lead to increased life satisfaction - what attracts the most volunteers?

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  • Social services
  • sports & recreation
  • education & research
  • religion
38
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which is not a benefit of volunteering

a. Good mental health
b. stronger social networks
c. high life satisfaction
d. increase in social skills
e. provides sense of purpose/ belonging
f. psychological well-being

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d

39
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New Horizons for Seniors Program (NHSP) funds community based projects that encourage seniors to share their knowledge, skills and experiences to the benefit of others…. what are their 5 objectives ?

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  1. Promoting volunteerism among seniors and other generations
  2. engaging seniors in the community through the mentoring of others
  3. expanding awareness of elder abuse, including financial abuse
  4. supporting the social participation and inclusion of seniors
  5. providing capital assistance for new and existing community projects and programs for seniors
40
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Canadian Executive Service Organization (CESO)

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federal government program that recruits volunteers (many retired executives) to serve as advisors or mentors in underdeveloped countries or Indigenous groups in Canada

  • give technical and management advice to businesses, undertake feasibility studies, and help train workers/managers
41
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Canadian Executive Service Organization (CESO)

A

federal government program that recruits volunteers (many retired executives) to serve as advisors or mentors in underdeveloped countries or Indigenous groups in Canada

  • give technical and management advice to businesses, undertake feasibility studies, and help train workers/managers

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