An Introduction to Silver Empowerment

Witte, Jasper De; Regenmortel, Tine Van

doi:10.2307/j.ctv35r3v37.4

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“…Resilience is defined as "a dynamic process encompassing positive adaptation within the context of significant adversity" (Luthar, Cicchetti, & Becker, 2000, p. 543). It refers to the ability to maintain a stable and good way of (physical, psychological, and social) functioning during difficult circumstances, by using resources that buffer the negative impacts of events such as the restrictive measures discussed here (Clark, Burbank, Greene, & Riebe, 2011;De Witte & Van Regenmortel, 2019;Janssen, 2013;Wister, 2022). Janssen, Van Regenmortel, and Abma (2011) make the distinction between resources in the individual, interactional and contextual domains.…”

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“You Needed to Accept the Situation”: Resilience of Nursing Home Residents in Times of COVID-19

De Witte,

Noten,

Vinckers

et al. 2023

Can. J. Aging

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The restrictive measures taken by nursing homes during the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020 (e.g., quarantine) may have been important stressors for which residents needed resilience to safeguard their well-being. Based on 30 semi-structured interviews with nursing home residents and close relatives, this study explored the lived experiences with respect to the restrictive measures. The data were collected in psychogeriatric, somatic, and mixed wards in The Netherlands and Flanders, Belgium. The restrictive measures were important stressors for residents, indicated by feelings of loneliness, sadness, and powerlessness. To deal with these measures, residents used various resources, which were determined by factors in the individual (e.g., health), interactional (e.g., possibilities for social interactions) and contextual (e.g. nursing home policy) domains. Because the lived experiences with respect to the restrictive measures seemed to relate to the resilience of nursing home residents, it is crucial to reinforce resources in the individual, interactional, and contextual domains.

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