Perception Of Life Pace In The City And Countryside Among Older People

Frydrychová, Zuzana; Horáková, Karolína; Vidovičová, Lucie; Štěpánková, Hana

doi:10.15405/epsbs.2017.11.12

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“…The city of Prague is proverbially hectic and perceived as such by older persons (Frydrychova et al, 2017). Our results suggest that the complex lived-in environment moderated the cognitive performance of its long-term dwellers regardless of how they subjectively perceived it.…”

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“…The psychometrists were free to select from the pools of villages and towns designated in COURAGE according to accessibility. A detailed description of COURAGE settlements was published elsewhere (Frydrychova et al, 2017).…”

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“…COURAGE protocol included standard socio-demographic questions, as well as scales and questions on topics that could potentially influence current cognitive performance, such as GDS15 (Sheikh and Yesavage, 1986); IADL (Lawton and Brody, 1969); the life pace and environment rating (Frydrychova et al, 2017); leisure time activities (Frydrychova et al, 2018); and impediments, i.e., quality of life and cognition-impeding factors, including subjective health rating, psychopharmacological medication, and negative life events (Georgi et al, 2018); the Visual Analog Scale of Pain (VASP) (Scott and Huskisson, 1976); sleep disturbances (Rinaldi et al, 2001; Merlino et al, 2010); and stress-inducing household income and living conditions.…”

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“…The pace of life in Prague is the most hectic, while villages are the most tranquil according to their inhabitants. This is a common notion and it is shared by residents of each type of settlement we consider in this study (Frydrychova et al, 2017). However, there are not such profound differences in Czechia between urban, intermediate, and predominantly rural areas in terms of earnings, availability of health and social services, etc., as there are in India, China, and Brazil.…”

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Cognitive performance is dynamic and shaped by individual biological and environmental factors throughout life. In psychology, besides the effects of age, education, and other often studied factors, the complexity of the lived-in environment and urbanicity in that context are yet to be elucidated. In this observational cross-sectional study, we compare cognitive performance in standard neuropsychological tests in healthy older persons from three different types of settlements in the Czechia: the capital city of Prague, towns, and villages. The groups were equal in terms of the age-band (60–74 years), the distribution of gender, education, past and current leisure activities, and cognitive health status (MMSE score). The results showed that Prague citizens had consistently better performance in all verbal tests (for memory and verbal control, i.e., executive function) and attention than persons from other areas. The groups did not differ in timed visuo-graphomotor performance. The conclusion is that the complex environment of a city may promote, in the long-term, certain cognitive abilities, distinguishable even in a developed, culturally homogenous country. The implications are: (a) the description of samples used in normative studies should include information on the lived-in environment for the reference of researchers and clinicians; and (b) individual clinical assessment should reflect the role of the patient’s environment where appropriate. The exact mechanisms and causes of the differences need further investigation.

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“…These rhythms and routines have also been neglected in resettlement research, although they have been explored in other studies of everyday life in rural and urban spaces (Edensor, 2010;Frydrychova et al, 2017;Lefebvre, 2004;Levin & Norenzayan, 1999;Lowin et al, 1971;Potts, 2015;Seamon, 1980).…”

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'Some Birds Sound the Same but Most Sing Different': Exploring Multisensory Place-Attachment and Wellbeing with Former Refugees in Nelson, Aotearoa New Zealand

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Through everyday multisensory experiences, individuals familiarise themselves with unique environments, people, rhythms, and routines, and form meaningful sociospatial relationships and emotional place attachments. These relationships are often severed during forced displacement, leading many refugees to feel a sense of loss, grief, and disorientation which can negatively impact upon their wellbeing as they move through and resettle in new places. Feelings of loss and grief may be further compounded by the stress of settling into a new unfamiliar geographic terrain and culture. Despite the importance that meaningful places can hold for individuals, place is often overlooked in resettlement research, which tends to prioritise the provision of basic needs and practices of social integration. However, in this thesis I suggest that a focus on place and multisensory processes of place-attachment can offer important insight into the emotional challenges and benefits of forced displacement and resettlement, and encourage new ways of supporting former refugees to maintain connections to their homelands, develop meaningful relationships with new people and places, and feel well in their everyday lives. To explore how former refugees’ everyday multisensory experiences shaped their feelings of place-attachment and wellbeing, I facilitated a research project in Nelson, Aotearoa New Zealand. Local reports indicated that refugee mental health problems were increasing in this city, and residents had identified a need for ‘alternative’ (non-Western biomedical) therapies in the health system. Building upon an emplaced, relational epistemology and participatory arts-based methodology, the research included preliminary ‘scoping’ interviews with eleven Nelson resettlement practitioners; and meetings, site-specific interviews, map-making activities, painting workshops and a multisensory art exhibition with twelve female Chin and Kayan former refugees. The conceptual focus on em-placement in this research was significant as it shifted away from the idea of refugees simply being displaced, to recognise that individuals are always physically situated and affected by their material encounters. My focus on multi-sensory experience was also important, as it enabled participants and myself to move beyond the common five senses of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch, and explore other visceral and proprioceptive ways of feeling, experiencing, and representing our surroundings, which contributed to more nuanced, productive ways of conceptualising wellbeing and disseminating research data. Key findings from the project demonstrated that participants’ feelings of place-attachment and wellbeing were shaped through the evocation of nostalgic and fearful memories of the past, affective emotional responses in the present, and the accumulation of multisensory experiences, memories, and emotions over time. These experiences influenced the girls and women’s sense of familiarity, safety, happiness, hope, and belonging in both positive and negative ways. They also influenced their feelings of being in or out-of-sync with local time-structures and rhythms, and shaped how they accessed, used, structured, and negotiated space and time and created unique homely and therapeutic-feeling places. Thus, I argue that everyday multisensory experience and meaningful people-place relationships require greater consideration in resettlement research, particularly as the number of globally displaced peoples reaches an unprecedented high, and New Zealand commits to raising its official UN refugee quota and resettling more newcomers in Nelson and other resettlement cities.

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Perception Of Life Pace In The City And Countryside Among Older People

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Young-Old City-Dwellers Outperform Village Counterparts in Attention and Verbal Control Tasks

Young-Old City-Dwellers Outperform Village Counterparts in Attention and Verbal Control Tasks

'Some Birds Sound the Same but Most Sing Different': Exploring Multisensory Place-Attachment and Wellbeing with Former Refugees in Nelson, Aotearoa New Zealand

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