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Showing 1 to 20 of 1559 for “"Older adults"”.
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Wellness and Mental Health Among Older Adults and Veteran Older Adults
In the past few decades, the older adult population in the U.S. has increased in both size and age (AoA, 2024). Additionally, nearly half of all veterans have entered older adulthood (VA, 2024). A sizable segment of these populations experiences mental health challenges (Moradi et al., 2021; …
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Older adults’ experiences of psychotherapy
There is a plethora of literature on older adults and psychological counselling. The literature reveals many assumptions and opinions of healthcare professionals and academics regarding older adults’ decision to enter into counselling or not and advice on how counselling should be conducted with …
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Exercise Motivations of Older Adults
… and compared activity levels and motives in 103 older (over 50 years of age) competitive athletes (CA) and non-competitive fitness exercisers (NCF). The findings indicate that the CA group was significantly higher in the motives of enjoyment, competition, and social recognition. Ranking of the …
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Reducing distractibility in healthy older adults
… changes in individual sensory systems, older adults also experience changes in how information from multiple sensory modalities is combined. In particular, older adults exhibit increased multisensory integration, showing larger gains than younger adults when information in one sensory …
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Transitioning Eating Practices of Older Adults
… have influenced the transition of an individual older adult’s eating practices over a lifespan and the impact participants perceived those factors currently had upon their nutritional health in older adulthood.</p> <p><strong>Background</strong>: The older adult population is recognized as one of …
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Predicting Cognitive Decline in Older Adults
<p>The investigator sought to determine which neuropsychological tests are more likely to predict an individual’s cognitive decline (i.e., normal to mild cognitive impairment, mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer’s disease) two years prior to conversion. A sample of non-decliners (N=109) compared …
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Older adults’ experience of psychological therapy
The portfolio examines the older adult experience of psychological therapy. The research study is from the older adult perspective and it provides a rich narrative and strengthens theory and practice links. This research explored older adult service users’ retrospective accounts of Psychological …
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Mindfulness and Cognition in Older Adults
… a possible attention state training program for older adults. Thirty-two healthy older adult participants were randomized to MBSR or waiting list, and 38 older adults were randomized to a cognitive training program (Mind Aerobics) or waiting list control. Dependent variables included measures of …
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Subjective well-being in older adults
… of subjective psychological well-being in older adults and draws conclusions about how the concept of well-being is defined and measured. A systematic search of four databases identified eight measures developed to capture the notion of psychological well-being; the Positive And Negative …
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Attitudes toward older adults : a multidimensional scale
… instrument, the Multidimensional Attitude Toward Older Adults Scale (MATOAS), administered to a total of 787 undergraduate students at a Midwestern university. Factor structure of the MATOAS was investigated with a split-sampling approach in order to cross validate the findings between exploratory …
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Learned Attention in Younger and Older Adults
… 2003). Much research has suggested that older adults have difficulty disengaging attention from irrelevant information, which could be problematic in the highlighting procedure (Cohn, Dustman, & Bradford, 1984; Tipper, 1991; Mutter, Naylor, & Patterson, 2005). However, the results of the …
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QUALITY-OF-LIFE INDICATORS IMPACTING OLDER ADULTS
… long-term relationship satisfaction. A sample of older adults were studied in relationship with health and wellness concerns guided by previous research conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, 2011a), and the World Health Organization (1991). Methods: The population …
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Communal Empathy in Native American Older Adults
… analysis of 28 interviews with Native American older adults was conducted. Research questions addressed the context in which empathy was demonstrated, what dimensions of empathy were utilized, if empathy was used as an emotion-focused or communal coping strategy, and what outcomes were described …
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Communal Empathy in Native American Older Adults
… analysis of 28 interviews with Native American older adults was conducted. Research questions addressed the context in which empathy was demonstrated, what dimensions of empathy were utilized, if empathy was used as an emotion-focused or communal coping strategy, and what outcomes were described …
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Resilience and Protective Factors in Older Adults
… in predicting resilience among Marin County older adults, or if some individual protective factors have a greater impact on resilience than the others. Fifty-eight participants ages 62 and higher were recruited from senior community programs and personal contacts. Four self-report …
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Teaching Older Adults How to Fall Safely
… could augment current procedures is to teach older adults movement strategies to fall safely. The purpose of the current study was to determine whether older adults can learn a safe falling-strategy (“tuck-and-roll”) to reduce the risk of fall- related injuries. Consistent with the principles …
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Activity participation and morale among older adults
The use of discretionary time among older adults and its relationship to well-being is of particular interest to many researchers, practitioners, and service providers. Interview data were collected from a randomly selected sample of 171 persons 65 years of age and older from the urbanized area of …
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