Older adults’ perceptions of weakness and ageing

Rush, Kathy L.; Watts, Wilda E.; Stanbury, Janice

doi:10.1111/j.1748-3743.2011.00280.x

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“…Here we present examples coming from sixteen papers, of how people aim to keep frailty at a distance or control it, for example, using strategies and behaviour to help cope with conditions which cannot be changed in themselves, changing their relationship with their conditions, indicating resilience [9,37,41,42,44,48,50,51,52,59,60,63,64,66,69,73]. …”

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Stakeholders’ views and experiences of care and interventions for addressing frailty and pre-frailty: A meta-synthesis of qualitative evidence

et al. 2017

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Frailty is a common condition in older age and is a public health concern which requires integrated care and involves different stakeholders. This meta-synthesis focuses on experiences, understanding, and attitudes towards screening, care, intervention and prevention for frailty across frail and healthy older persons, caregivers, health and social care practitioners. Studies published since 2001 were identified through search of electronic databases; 81 eligible papers were identified and read in full, and 45 papers were finally included and synthesized. The synthesis was conducted with a meta-ethnographic approach. We identified four key themes: Uncertainty about malleability of frailty; Strategies to prevent or to respond to frailty; Capacity to care and person and family-centred service provision; Power and choice. A bottom-up approach which emphasises and works in synchrony with frail older people's and their families' values, goals, resources and optimisation strategies is necessary. A greater employment of psychological skills, enhancing communication abilities and tools to overcome disempowering attitudes should inform care organisation, resulting in more efficient and satisfactory use of services. Public health communication about prevention and management of frailty should be founded on a paradigm of resilience, balanced acceptance, and coping. Addressing stakeholders’ views about the preventability of frailty was seen as a salient need.

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confidence: 99%

Stakeholders’ views and experiences of care and interventions for addressing frailty and pre-frailty: A meta-synthesis of qualitative evidence

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“…It should be mentioned that both positive and negative connotations accompanying the image of older people are the source of specific references and attitudes towards them [6][7][8]. They translate into the way older people are treated.…”

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Psychometric properties of the Scale for Evaluating Attitudes towards Seniors (SEAS)

Łukasiewicz

Kowalski

Saran

et al. 2019

Ann Agric Environ Med.

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Introduction. The Scale for Evaluating Attitudes towards Seniors (SEAS) was developed based on the concept of social attitudes towards the elderly by G. Miałkowska. The main objective of the study was validation of Scale. Materials and method. The validation procedure was carried out on a sample of 304 adults. Content validity was estimated based on the CVR coefficient, the theoretical validity was verified by means of exploratory factor analysis with simple Oblimin rotation and Kaiser normalization, and criterion validity determined based on analysis of the correlation matrix of SEAS from IVE and SES. Reliability of the tool was estimated based on the values of alpha Cronbach and the discriminatory power of test items coefficients. Results. Content validity rates CVR range from 0.83-1.00. Three SEAS factors were distinguished on the basis of factor analysis -Respect and Support, Rejection and Misunderstanding, Social distance. Their alpha Cronbach's coefficient range is 0.93-0.86. Extracted SEAS scales correlate with IVE and SES dimensions. Conclusions. The validation procedure confirms the high psychometric properties of the constructed research tool and allows its use in both individual diagnosis and scientific research, which in turn will contribute to broadening of knowledge about the psychological mechanisms associated with seniors' perception, and can be used to design responses to preventive actions supporting quality of intergenerational interpersonal interactions.

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“…The combination of alternation between the strategies together with diversity in the content of the existential framework and the comprehensive process of resilience contributed to this variation. Variability in SOC strategies was also found in some studies on chronic illness: in older people with arthritis (Gignac et al, 2002) and those with mobility adaptations (Rush et al, 2011a;2011b). The variability seemed to be central for minimizing difficulties with disability and weakness.…”

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Older people with incurable cancer: Existential meaning-making from a life-span perspective

Haug

Danbolt

Kvigne³

et al. 2015

Pall Supp Care

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Older adults’ perceptions of weakness and ageing

Abstract: Nurses must be alert to both the visible and subtler dimensions of weakness. It is important to engage older adults in active strategies that enhance muscle strength while capitalizing on their self-motivating and validating efforts at staying strong.

Cited by 15 publications

References 32 publications

Stakeholders’ views and experiences of care and interventions for addressing frailty and pre-frailty: A meta-synthesis of qualitative evidence

Stakeholders’ views and experiences of care and interventions for addressing frailty and pre-frailty: A meta-synthesis of qualitative evidence

Psychometric properties of the Scale for Evaluating Attitudes towards Seniors (SEAS)

Older people with incurable cancer: Existential meaning-making from a life-span perspective

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