Well‐Being of Elderly People Living in Nursing Homes: The Benefits of Making Friends

Wolff, François‐Charles

doi:10.1111/kykl.12015

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“…All interventions took place in groups, viewed, for instance, as an important aspect in laughter yoga 21 . However, as socialising can elevate mood, participant well-being may have increased due to being with peers 40 .…”

Section: Confounding Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Laughter and humour interventions for well-being in older adults: A systematic review and intervention classification

Gonot-Schoupinsky

Garip

2018

Complementary Therapies in Medicine

115

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Laughter and humour interventions appear to enhance well-being. There is insufficient evidence for the potential of laughter itself to increase well-being as interventions contained a range of confounding factors and did not measure participant laughter. Interventions that isolate, track, and measure the parameters of individual laughter are recommended to build evidence for these potentially attractive and low-risk interventions. The classification proposed may guide the development of both evidence-oriented and population-appropriate intervention designs.

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Section: Confounding Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Laughter and humour interventions for well-being in older adults: A systematic review and intervention classification

Gonot-Schoupinsky

Garip

2018

Complementary Therapies in Medicine

115

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“…First, socialization appears to be important for older people living in long-term care homes in maintaining or enhancing positive mood and wellbeing. A recent survey found that the greatest predictor of positive wellbeing in care homes was the number of friends within the residence (Wolff, 2013). There may be several reasons for this, but one that is common in the literature, and something that CWA highlights in their principles, is the act of reminiscing.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cycling Without Age: Assessing the Impact of a Cycling-Based Initiative on Mood and Wellbeing

Gray

Gow

2020

Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine

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Objective: Cycling Without Age is a global initiative in which trained volunteers take adults living in care homes or supported housing environments out on specially designed trishaws. Despite its global success, there is limited research on the effect the initiative has on the older adults taking part. The current study therefore assessed changes in mood and wellbeing to determine whether there were short-term benefits of participation. Methods: Forty-nine older adults (69% female; 67–100 years old ( M = 84.1, SD = 7.6)) living in care homes and supported housing environments were recruited; 35 participants completed all measures and comprise the analytical sample. Participants completed the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale and UWIST Mood Adjective Checklist immediately before a ride (baseline); they repeated the measures on completion of the ride (follow-up). Participants also completed baseline and follow-up measures on a day in which they did not go on a ride. Mixed ANOVA compared differences in baseline and follow-up mood and wellbeing scores on ride and no ride days. Results: For all mood and wellbeing measures, there were significant interactions between day (ride or no ride) and measurement occasion (baseline or follow-up). Analyses revealed significant improvement in mood and wellbeing at follow-up on ride days versus no ride days. Conclusion: Short-term positive changes in mood and wellbeing were reported as a result of participation in the Cycling Without Age initiative for older adults in care home and supported living environments. Further research is needed to explore the longevity of benefits and longer-term changes.

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“…The relevance of being included in a social network of relatives and friends on well-being and life satisfaction has been found, amongst other authors by Mukerjee (2013), with regards to elderly by Fong (2001), Sener et al (2008) and Wolff (2013) and with regards to intellectual disabled persons by Campo, Sharpton, Thompson and Sexton (1997), and by Miller and Chan (2008).…”

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confidence: 85%

“…The interaction with adult children can have a negative effect on elderly people well-being when undesired as Silverstein, Chen and Heller (1996) show. Making friends has been found to have a more significant and positive effect than relatives' visits or other factors related to the individual according to Wolff (2013) analysis based on the 2007 'Residents in Sheltered Accommodation for Elderly People' survey in France. Roberto and Husser (2007) by using qualitative interviews to a sample of 58 older women with multiple health problems in the USA show that social relationships act both as resources and as obstacles in the adaptation of women's daily life to their chronic illness problems with contrasting effects on physical health and emotional well-being.…”

Section: Mendes Dementioning

confidence: 99%

Healthy life, social interaction and disability

2015

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This paper aims at analysing two relevant dimensions of well-being: living a healthy life and social interaction. A link between the two dimensions of well-being has been highlighted in the literature. The model assumes that both these concepts, i.e. social interaction and healthy life, are latent and manifest themselves through a number of indicators. The indicators adopted are those available in the 2011 ISTAT survey on social inclusion of people with disability in Italy by comparing the well-being attainments with respect to the different levels of functional limitations. In this paper the available indicators are used simultaneously to study the level of social interaction and health through a multiple indicators multiple causes model. This allows us to deal directly with endogeneity issues. Results show that women have a lower achievement in social interaction and in health. Moreover, differences occur in the effect of the observable exogenous variables included in the model with a larger negative effect of ageing for women on their health status and a higher negative effect of ageing for men on social interaction. Education plays a significant role only for women for the healthy life dimension. Finally, the latent variable on social interaction has been found to positively affect, consistently with the literature, the health dimension

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Well‐Being of Elderly People Living in Nursing Homes: The Benefits of Making Friends

Cited by 14 publications

References 27 publications

Laughter and humour interventions for well-being in older adults: A systematic review and intervention classification

Laughter and humour interventions for well-being in older adults: A systematic review and intervention classification

Cycling Without Age: Assessing the Impact of a Cycling-Based Initiative on Mood and Wellbeing

Healthy life, social interaction and disability

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