Lifelong Educational Practices and Resources in Enabling Health Literacy Among Older Adults

Wister, Andrew; Malloy-Weir, Leslie J; Rootman, Irving; Desjardins, Richard

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“…4 More recently there has been an attempt to apply this model to understanding predictors of health. Wister and colleagues, 17 for example, used the expanded Andersen-Newman model -which included lifelong educational practices and resources as enabling factors -and found that formal education and lifelong learning factors were the variables to have the strongest connection with health literacy.…”

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The primary care physician and cancer literacy: Reducing health disparities in an immigrant population

Lee

Choi

Park

2013

Health Education Journal

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Objective:To evaluate the level of cancer literacy among Korean American immigrants and to identify the most influential predictors of cancer literacy in this population. Method: Using a quota-sampling strategy, 407 Korean American immigrants were recruited in the New York metropolitan area. The study was theoretically guided by the Andersen's Health Behaviour Model and ordinary least squares regression analysis was used for data analyses. Results: The cancer literacy level of this Korean American immigrant sample was much lower than that reported in studies of non-Latino whites and other racial/ethnic minorities. The results from the multiple regression models indicated that age was the only predictor of cancer literacy among predisposing factors. As for enabling factors, educational attainment and having a primary care physician were significant predictors. No need factors were found to be significant predictors in this study.

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The primary care physician and cancer literacy: Reducing health disparities in an immigrant population

Lee

Choi

Park

2013

Health Education Journal

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“…It has been applied to other types of behavior, however [70], particularly involving organizational features as enabling factors [25,71,72].…”

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Increased physical activity, physician recommendation, and senior center participation

Swan¹,

Turner²,

Shashidhara³

et al. 2013

Health

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Physical activity is a recognized preventive health measure for seniors and an important focus for senior centers. This paper employs the Andersen Behavioral Model to explore increased physical activity and participation in three types of senior center activities: physical fitness, dance/aerobic classes, and chair exercises. Data were collected in 2006 on 798 and in 2007 on 742 participants at 21 multipurpose senior centers in a large urban county. Logistic regression analysis (PROC RLOGIST in SAS-callable SUDAAN) was employed to predict increased physical activity, with modes of center participation in physical activity as mediating factors. Predisposing and enabling factors predicted both engaging in center-based exercise programs and increases in physical activity; but the strongest predictors of increases in physical activity were needed factors: physician recommendations to increase exercise and to lose weight. Implications are that both SCs and healthcare providers are important to promote physical activity in the older population.

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“…Studies have shown that older adults are predisposed to low literacy including health literacy (Wister et al 2010). Educated older adults who read more often are better able to process information on health practices and healthy lifestyles (Roberts and Fawcett 2003); and this gives them an edge with respect to a healthy and successful aging process (O'Rand and Hamil-luker 2005;Wister et al 2010). As Baker et al (2007) agued, adults with high functional literacy are less likely to die than those with low functional literacy.…”

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“…This shows that health literacy is very vital to sustaining the quality of life. This is so because it helps in the understanding of the risks and benefits involved in medical treatments, and in the sustenance of a healthy lifestyle as well as a better self-management of illness (Canadian Council on Learning 2007; Wister et al 2010). What this suggests is that 'older adults who read manuals, reference books, or journals to learn and those who use the computer or internet to learn are more likely to be health literate than those not engaging in these types of learning practices' (Wister et al 2010: 846).…”

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The Future of Elderly Care in Nigeria: Borrowing a Leaf from a Foreign Land

Dokpesi

2014

Ageing Int

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In Nigeria, government attitude towards elderly care has been quite indifferent since independence. This is informed by the notion that, the population aging in Nigeria is minimal in terms of the total composition; and that traditionally, the children would always take care of their aged parents. However the family and community base informal social supports, upon which this notion is partly based, have waned in recent years under the yoke of excruciating socioeconomic conditions. More so, recent survey reports and demographic projections point to an unprepared reality, of the increasing nature of both the absolute and proportional numbers of the elderly population in Nigeria. This article therefore discusses the challenges of the elderly Nigerians, under such conditions, and the need for a change in government policy attitude to aging issues in Nigeria. It suggests that government should be proactive in addressing the potential upsurge in population aging now, through the borrowing of ideas which are relevant to our peculiar circumstances; and the blending of the formal and informal mechanisms for assisting the senior citizens in the attainment of graceful aging.

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Lifelong Educational Practices and Resources in Enabling Health Literacy Among Older Adults

Abstract: Findings are discussed in relation to the development and maintenance of health literacy over the life course. Programs and policies that encourage lifelong and lifewide educational resources and practices by older persons are needed.

Cited by 61 publications

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The primary care physician and cancer literacy: Reducing health disparities in an immigrant population

The primary care physician and cancer literacy: Reducing health disparities in an immigrant population

Increased physical activity, physician recommendation, and senior center participation

The Future of Elderly Care in Nigeria: Borrowing a Leaf from a Foreign Land

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