Coping with post‐traumatic stress: young, middle‐aged and elderly comparisons

Abstract

Following exposure to technological disasters, young, middle-aged and elderly community residents could display similar post-traumatic responses and employ similar coping strategies, which contradicts the vulnerability hypothesis and the inoculation hypothesis.

Posttraumatic stress disorder in older people after a fall

“…For example, PTSD symptom severity was similar across young, middle-aged and older people who sustained spinal cord injury and were exposed to technological disasters (Chung et al, 2004(Chung et al, , 2005(Chung et al, , 2006b). The PTSD reactions following natural disasters were also similar between older people and younger people (Kohn et al, 2005).…”

Posttraumatic stress and co-morbidity following myocardial infarction among older patients: The role of coping

“…Yet, it is important to look at coping among these older patients because, in so doing, one can understand more about the way in which they adapt to chronic traumatic stress. This gap in the research reflects the general trend that studies addressing coping and PTSD in the older age group are relatively few (Averill & Beck, 2000;Jones, Rapport, Hanks, Lichtenberg, & Telmet, 2003), although some efforts have recently been made to look at coping among older people suffering from PTSD following spinal cord injury (Chung, Preveza, Papandreou, & Prevezas, 2006) and exposed to technological disasters (Chung, Werrett, Easthope, & Farmer, 2004). To gather information on how older patients cope with post-MI PTSD, one can look at studies that show how the use of emotion-focused and problem-focused coping strategies impact upon the well-being of older people.…”

Posttraumatic stress disorder and general health problems following myocardial infarction (Post‐MI PTSD) among older patients: the role of personality

“…depression) has been established in studies focusing on, for example, technological disasters (e.g. Livingston et al, 1992Livingston et al, , 1994Hagstrom, 1995;Jenike, 1995;Chung et al, 2004), natural disasters (e.g. Goenjian et al, 1994;Green et al, 1996;Ticehurst et al, 1996;Norris et al, 2002), crime (Simpson et al, 1996), abuse and neglect (Goldstein, 1996;Wolf, 1997) as well as war experiences (e.g.…”