Safety Practices Among Limited Resource Farmers in North Carolina

Ford, Carey L.; EdD, Francis O. Walson; Owens, John Paul

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“…Older farmers may not be able to distinguish the size and depth of a pothole in time to avoid it or may not have the muscle strength or dexterity to push or move themselves away from a horse or cow that is about to run into them (Aherin et al, 1992). Drugs can increase older farmers' risk of injury in many ways (Campbell, 1991;Ford et al, 1997;Kiel, Felson, & Anderson, 1987). The most important negative effects of these drugs are sedation, impaired balance and reaction time, and drug-induced Parkinson's disease.…”

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“…This placed tractors fourth among the agents associated with injuries. With fatal injuries, however, most studies (Ahering et al, 1992;Ambe & Murphy, 1995;Ford et al, 1997;Myers, 1997;Myers & Hard, 1995;Purschwitz & Field, 1991;Reiling, 1997;Richardson & Lambert, 1997;Teret & Langlois, 1991;Ungar et al, 1997;Zwerling, Merchant, Reynolds, Burmeister, & Stromquist, 1997) showed tractors ranking first, with other machinery a distant second.…”

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“…For fatal injuries among workers in agricultural production and services sectors (Myers & Hard, 1995), those ages 55 to 64 years had a relative risk of 1.64 compared to those ages 25 to 44 years; those ages 65 and older had a relative risk of 3.30. Farm tractors and machinery were identified as the number one cause of fatal injuries among farmers (Ford et al, 1997;Kidd, McKnight, & Koetke, 1993). Nonfatal injury risk has been shown to be elevated on farms with animals, especially on beef and dairy farms (Brison & Pickett, 1992;Nordstrom et al, 1995;Pratt et al, 1992;Zhou & Roseman, 1994).…”

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This article explores the potential and the promise of convergence between gerontological and occupational health researchers to better understand challenges faced by aging farmers including declining economic viability of family farms, the aging of the population of working farmers, and probability of work-related injury or disability among older farmers. Although the need for research seems obvious, the economic, demographic, and psychosocial dynamics of continued work among aging farmers is under-studied in the occupational health literature and absent in the gerontological literature. Following examination of studies of aging farmers drawn from the occupational health literature, we review studies of rural aging in the gerontological literature. First, we compare varying definitions of rural across federal agencies that impact the ability of researchers using these data to examine variability across rural places. Next, we review studies based upon primary data that include rural residence among their independent variables. We describe different definitions of rural residence across federal agencies with an eye toward their methodological and conceptual impact on the rural aging literature. Then we describe inadequate and incomplete definition and measurement of rural residence across published studies of primary data. Following discussion of the implications of these shortcomings for rural aging research including farmers and others engaged in extractive activities, we discuss the potential for joint work among gerontologists and occupational health researchers to better understand the significance of aging for transition in the agricultural economy and the viability of family farms. We recommend attention to the definition and measurement of rural residence to include variability in rural farm and non-farm populations and refocusing the occupational health literature on aging farmers to include a life course perspective from gerontological theory applied through longitudinal research designs.

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Safety Practices Among Limited Resource Farmers in North Carolina

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Nonfatal Agricultural Injuries among Colorado Older Male Farmers

Nonfatal Agricultural Injuries among Colorado Older Male Farmers

The Aging Farm Population and Rural Aging Research

An Exploratory Study of Occupational Safety and Health with Limited Resource African-American Farmers

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