Methodological Problems of Research in Older People

Bayer, Antony James

doi:10.1016/b978-1-4160-6231-8.10005-4

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“…Participants were informed of the research aims ahead of each interview. To remain sensitive to the heterogeneity amongst older people (Bayer, 2017), i.e., in reading comprehension, extra time was allotted for reading the consent form at the start of each interview. All participants provided written consent: Some signed the form without looking, others perused it thoroughly.…”

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Ageing with apps: A Foucauldian study exploring older people’s use of apps in managing their physical health

Bavngaard

2023

MedieKultur

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This article explores the incorporation of mobile applications in older people’s physical health management through the lens of Foucault’s concepts on self-governance. Based on ten interviews with older Danes, the article posits that physical health management practices constitute practices of self-governance, involving participants’ attunement to both physical activity and bodily phenomena, which are both facilitated and optimized through app-based self-tracking. The findings align the rationales driving participants’ efforts with the trajectory of the governmental concept of active ageing. Using apps thus becomes intertwined with participants’ efforts towards ageing successfully, consequently taking on a dual function: Apps strengthen the adherence to norms of conduct for achieving an optimal ageing process by allowing for ubiquitous self-monitoring and self-assessment. Simultaneously, I argue that apps may also act as a gatekeeper, as lacking the technical competencies to efficiently use apps hinders effective health management and thus clashes with efforts conforming to active ageing.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Ageing with apps: A Foucauldian study exploring older people’s use of apps in managing their physical health

Bavngaard

2023

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“…Sources and methods to study aging are imperfect because of the obvious difficulty of bioethics human experimentation, and so laborious it is for researchers to conduct longitudinal studies of aging populations, so that the main efforts have been directed to experimental study short-lived animals (flies, worms, mice), the results are difficult to extrapolate to humans, and cross-sectional studies in aged sectors, such as the recent studies on long-lived Italian [3,4].…”

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Theories of Human Aging of Molecules to Society

Cabrera¹

2015

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Aging is a process of deterioration of physiological functions, time-dependent, leading to homeoestenosis. The causes and mechanisms of this process are not yet fully clarified so have issued numerous theories to explain it.The article reviews the major theories of human aging, while proposing a classification that covers the fundamental mechanisms, including deregulation of the immune response (oxy-inflamm-aging) as one of the most cited today.The theories also include those relating to the psychosocial aspects of aging, taking a holistic approach to this biological process of humans.

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Methodological Problems of Research in Older People

Cited by 2 publications

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Ageing with apps: A Foucauldian study exploring older people’s use of apps in managing their physical health

Ageing with apps: A Foucauldian study exploring older people’s use of apps in managing their physical health

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