Negotiating Well-being: Older People's Narratives of Relationships and Relationality

Ward, Lizzie

doi:10.1080/17496535.2014.932419

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“…Most studies addressed CHL through factors that indirectly influenced older adults’ health and wellbeing, including personal and lifestyle factors, cultural conditions, and the health care system [ 26 , 27 , 29 – 37 , 39 – 47 ]. Three studies [ 30 , 43 , 46 ] addressed CHL through focusing on collective actions. Furthermore, almost all studies, except for two studies [ 25 , 35 ], involved other actors such as family members, people with particular knowledge of the community, and/or health professionals or service providers.…”

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“…In several studies, community members such as community leaders, community workers or neighbors, provided older adults with social support [ 26 , 27 , 29 , 30 , 34 , 46 , 47 ]. Here, community-based knowledge and practices contributed to the health knowledge, skills, health and wellbeing of older adults.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Three studies underlined the reciprocity of social support in the community. Some older adults wanted to give something back to the community, for example by doing voluntary work, because they had received care earlier in their life [ 30 ]. At the same time, several older adults expected something back from the community in return for what they had done for the community [ 29 , 47 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Some studies particularly discussed older adults giving social support to their families [ 27 , 30 , 35 ]. These older adults cared for their grandchildren or other family members, mostly because they wanted to keep contributing to the functioning of their family: “During times of family illnesses, these elders served as health care providers and often took ill family members to the physician, as well as helped with the family’s activities of daily living.” [ 27 ]…”

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“…Several studies described the reciprocity of social support within families [ 26 , 27 , 30 , 46 , 47 ]: “The care that Elsie received from her family felt less like a burden as she felt she still had an important role within her family as mother and grandmother.” [ 30 ] In this example the older woman and her family members contributed to each other’s health knowledge, experiences and skills.…”

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Community-based initiatives improving critical health literacy: a systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative evidence

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BackgroundCritical health literacy enables older adults to make informed health decisions and take actions for the health and wellbeing of themselves and their community, within their own social and cultural context. A community-based approach has the potential to improve the critical health literacy of older adults and their communities. However, it is not clear how such initiatives consider critical health literacy. Therefore, this study explored how community-based initiatives address the critical health literacy of older adults and their communities.MethodsA systematic literature search was conducted. Two reviewers independently screened titles and abstracts, as well as the quality of the methodological and community-based elements of the studies. In addition, a meta-synthesis was carried out, consisting of a qualitative text analysis of the results sections of the 23 included studies.ResultsWe identified two main themes, which are practices that contribute to the critical health literacy of older adults as well as their communities: 1) collaborative learning, and 2) social support. In these practices we identified reciprocity as a key characteristic of both co-learning and social support.ConclusionsThis study provides the first overview of community-based initiatives that implicitly address the critical health literacy of older adults and their community. Our results demonstrate that in the context of one’s own life collaborative learning and social support could contribute to people’s understanding and ability to judge, sift and use health information. We therefore suggest to add these two practices to the definition of critical health literacy.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12889-017-4570-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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Co-research with older people: a systematic literature review

James

Buffel

2022

Ageing and Society

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Interest in co-research with older adults has grown in the past 20 years, yet few published studies have addressed why and how older people have been involved as partners in research. This article presents a systematic review of the literature, examining the aims and challenges of co-research and the ways in which older adults can be involved in research. Systematic searches covering several databases were conducted, yielding a total of 3,293 articles, with 27 papers reviewed which involved older people as co-researchers across more than one stage of the research cycle. We find that co-research with older people offers improved understandings of the issues facing older people; more inclusive and responsive policy, practice and service design; and opportunities for co-researchers to develop new skills whilst giving voice to marginalised groups of older people. The analysis highlights the different ways in which older adults can be involved across phases of research, and identifies ethical, methodological and practical challenges encountered in the process. Involving older adults as co-researchers, while labour intensive and practically challenging, holds promise as an underdeveloped resource for social gerontology, as well as older people themselves. The paper identifies four pathways for improving and extending co-research: developing diversified structures of involvement, supporting co-researchers, embedding research rigour and ensuring co-ownership of change.

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