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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"living alone"”.
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Older women’s experiences of living alone with Dementia
… evaluate the recent literature on the impact of living alone on the well-being of older adults. A literature search was completed in order to identify relevant peer reviewed articles. Fifteen studies were reviewed, forming a heterogeneous group which included: comparing well-being and loneliness …
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The Experience of Older Men Living Alone: A Phenomenological Perspective
… study was to uncover older men's experience of living alone. This study was pursued because much of the literature reports that older men who live alone face the highest risk of death, mental illness, physical disability, and social isolation in our country. Based upon this literature, nurses …
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Anxiety, eating, and the foodwork practices of individuals living alone
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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An exploratory study of older people living alone in Chongming, Shanghai
Background<br/>The number of older people living alone is increasing due to dramatic population ageing and changes in living arrangements. Little is known about older people living alone in Mainland China and their quality of life (QoL) where collectivism and filial responsibility are …
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Association between Stress and Suicidal Ideation in Older People Living Alone
최근 우리나라는 고령화로 인한 노인문제가 심각한 사회문제로 대두되고 있다. 노년기는 경제적 빈곤, 질병, 고독, 상실 등의 스트레스를 증가시키는 사건들이 증가하는 반면 스트레스를 대처하는 방식이나 능력은 저하됨에 따라 일상생활에서 경험하는 스트레스는 더욱 증가하게 되었다. 그리고 이러한 스트레스 증가가 노인의 심리에 악영향을 미쳐 자살생각에 영향을 줄 수 있음을 많은 사례들을 통해 알 수 있다. 본 연구의 목적은 우리나라 독거노인의 스트레스와 자살생각이 어떠한 관련성이 있는지를 알아보기 위함이다. 독거노인의 자살생각에 관련요인이라 …
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The Nature of Emotional Support for Ten Young Women Living Alone
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T19:56:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8009201.pdf: 5043145 bytes, checksum: 6e4d459f34635e5ee048e0a6ac304238 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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Knowledge on Dementia, Internal Health Locus of Control and Dementia Preventive Behaviors of the elderly living alone.
본 연구는 독거노인의 치매에 대한 지식, 내적 건강통제위 및 치매예방행위 정도를 확인하고, 치매예방행위에 영향을 미치는 요인을 분석한 서술적 조사연구로, 치매예방 관련 프로그램 개발에 기초자료를 제공하고자 시도되었다. 본 연구의 대상자는 경기도에 소재한 노인정, 노인대학, 보건소와 노인복지관을 이용하고 있는 만 65세 이상의 독거노인 158명이었으며, 자료 수집은 2015년 1월 14일부터 2월 13일까지 이루어졌다. 연구도구로는 조맹제(2008)가 개발한 치매에 대한 지식, Wallston & Wallston(1978)에 의해 …
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Finding Balance in a Family of One: Time Use in Single Person Households
<p>This project examines the lives of people living alone, particularly their efforts to negotiate and create social boundaries to support a healthy work-life balance. The findings show that people living alone are a diverse segment of the U.S. population and that these individuals work more hours, …
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Being Alone: The Experience of Elderly Homebound Females
… in morbidity and a greater likelihood of living alone. This study describes the life experience of a specific group of elderly women, those who are homebound and living alone. When elderly women are included in research, the same combination of descriptors used for the participants in this …
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The Effect of Minimal Care Pets on Homebound Elderly and Their Professional Caregivers
… social interaction of homebound elderly people living alone and receiving home health care services. Another purpose was to assess the effect of this activity on the relationships between the home health caregivers and their frail clients who kept goldfish.
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Architecture of Connection: A Mixed-Use Housing Strategy for Building Urban Community
… trends that increase the likelihood of our living alone. In an effort to strengthen social networks at multiple scales, this thesis proposes an urban housing community with extensive shared space as well as spaces that are open to and shared with the public.
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Material into narrative & Cane Island
… they discover a peculiar man who appears to be living alone on the island and eating indigestible substances. Grace theorises that he may have unique biological adaptations in his digestive system and with time and food running out, she and Chris must decide how far they are willing to go to …
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Obesity and cardiovascular disease. Aspects of methods and susceptibility.
… prevalent in men with manual work and in men living alone, than in men with non-manual work and in cohabiting men. Adjusted for lifestyle and biological risk factors, the increased risk of CE and death for obese men with manual jobs was applicable only to those who were single. There was a …
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Listening to older adult learners: the experience of using assistive technology in task performance and home modification
… the ages of 65-85 years, struggling to continue living alone. Research was conducted in response to the question: What is the experience for older women of learning to use assistive technology for task performance and home modification, and what is the meaning of that experience? Data collection …
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Women in the workforce: Overcoming time and space constraints
… couples, single parent families and singles living alone have replaced the traditional male wage earner, female homemaker and children which we once looked upon as the ideal family unit. Although women today are encouraged to pursue careers, or forced to work due to financial obligations, …
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An investigation of social isolation and well-being among the elderly
… dental office. The objective indicators included living alone, having no companions, having no confidants, closeness of confidants, having no children, and marital status. Measures of well-being included a life experience scale, a health status scale, a quality of life scale, a satisfaction scale, …
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Non-Invasive Monitoring of Human Hygiene using Vibration Sensor and Classifier
… people, especially for our elderly population living alone at home or in an assisted living facility. Monitoring daily hygiene routine could truly help our healthcare professionals be proactive rather than reactive in identifying and controlling the spread of potential outbreaks within our …
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The Utterly Complete History of Cambridge, Massachusetts
… subsistence, on the verge of thirty, and still living alone in a studio a block from his parents in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He worked part time, he took care of his dementia ridden, and hobbled, great uncle Harold. He suffered what he felt were the betrayals of modern life: his parents and …
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