scholarly journals Comparative study of alexithymia in institutionalized elderly versus senior classroom

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Julia García-Sevilla ◽  
Inmaculada Méndez ◽  
Ana Mª Bermúdez ◽  
Juan P. Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Elderly Person ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Thought Patterns ◽  
Classroom Study ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Tas 20

Experience and emotion regulation are issues that are increasingly important in order to understand and promote the welfare and quality of life of elderly. The aim of this study was to conduct a comparative study of the alexithymia in users in an institutionalized center and students enrolled in a senior classroom. Study participants were 43 people hospitalized and 48 from the senior older with an average age of 69.30 years and a standard deviation of 66.50. The instrument used was the adapted version of the TAS-20. The results showed that institutionalized people scored higher on the difficulty in identifying feelings, difficulty in describing feelings and in the pattern of externally-oriented thinking. Sex was indifferent to the difficulty in identifying feelings, difficulty in describing feelings as well as externally-oriented pattern. In terms of age, a relationship was found with the difficulty in identifying feelings and externally oriented thought patterns. The study allows us to conclude that alexithymia is influenced by the fact that the elderly person is in an institutionalized center.

scholarly journals Comparative study of alexithymia in institutionalized elderly versus senior classroom

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Julia García-Sevilla ◽  
Inmaculada Méndez ◽  
Ana Mª Bermúdez ◽  
Juan P. Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Elderly Person ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Thought Patterns ◽  
Classroom Study ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Tas 20

Experience and emotion regulation are issues that are increasingly important in order to understand and promote the welfare and quality of life of elderly. The aim of this study was to conduct a comparative study of the alexithymia in users in an institutionalized center and students enrolled in a senior classroom. Study participants were 43 people hospitalized and 48 from the senior older with an average age of 69.30 years and a standard deviation of 66.50. The instrument used was the adapted version of the TAS-20. The results showed that institutionalized people scored higher on the difficulty in identifying feelings, difficulty in describing feelings and in the pattern of externally-oriented thinking. Sex was indifferent to the difficulty in identifying feelings, difficulty in describing feelings as well as externally-oriented pattern. In terms of age, a relationship was found with the difficulty in identifying feelings and externally oriented thought patterns. The study allows us to conclude that alexithymia is influenced by the fact that the elderly person is in an institutionalized center.

scholarly journals Hubungan Interaksi Sosial Dengan Kualitas Hidup Lansia Di Wilayah Kerja Puskesmas Bangkala Kelurahan Biring Romang

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Kurniawan Amin ◽  
Sigit Mulyono ◽  
Lili Herlina
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Health Center ◽  
Elderly Person ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
P Value ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Work Area ◽  
Relationship Of

Quality of life is a level that describes the advantages of an individual that can be assessed from their lives. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of social interaction with the quality of life of the elderly in the work area of Bangkala Health Center, Kel. Biring Romang, Kec Manggala, Makassar City. Method: This research is a quantitative study with a type of research with cross-sectional studies with a sample size of 219 respondents using a computerized application of SPSS 20 Che Square test. The results showed that interaction using social media in the elderly P-value = 0,000, which means there is a significant relationship between quality of life in the elderly in the area of Bangkala Health Center, Kel. Biring Romang, Kec. Manggala, Makassar City. Conclusion: There is a relationship between quality of life in the elderly, therefore it is expected that an elderly person should slowly be acquainted with so that in the process of daily life can do social interaction Keywords: Social Interaction, Quality of Life.

The subject who thinks economically? Comparative money subjectivities in neoliberal context

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 523-540 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Joanne Verdouw
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Life Goals ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Life Values ◽  
Study Participants

Theoretically, neoliberalism is acknowledged as a powerful, discursive mode of governmentality, whose key tenets widely influence sociological discourses around the role of money in attaining quality of life and happiness. However, few studies qualitatively reflect in any detail on how neoliberalism is implicated in the making of particular subjectivities. In this comparative study, participants from different income contexts (middle and low income, and downshifters) are interviewed about money meanings with attention to the particular ways of living they narrate. The findings attest to participant adoption of, and/or resistance to, lay forms of neoliberalism in the ordering of their subjectivities around key themes: life values, life goals, monetary boundaries and future understandings. Their stories show the prevalence of the neoliberal subject and clarify the practical limits of neoliberal discourses, as well as demonstrating how moral alternatives to neoliberalism can transform self-understanding and practice.

scholarly journals Muscle Mass and Quality of Life of Elderly People in Panti Tresna Werdha in Bandung

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lambok K. K. Stein ◽  
Siska Wiramihardja ◽  
Iceu D. Kulsum
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Muscle Mass ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Mean Value ◽  
Physical Domain ◽  
Average Value ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Study Participants

The proportion of elderly continues to increase from year to year due to theincrease of life expectancy. Elderly will experience degenerative process related tomuscle mass. This can disrupt the quality of life. The aim of this study was to determinethe muscle mass and quality of life (QoL) in the elderly. This study used cross sectionalapproach with the number of subjects as many as 32 elderly residents of Tresna Werdhain Bandung. The tool used to measure muscle mass is BIA Tanita SC-240 while theinstrument used in measuring quality of life is the WHOQL-BREF questionnaire. Theresult showed that the mean value of muscle mass per unit body surface area was 22.86±2.20 kg/m 2 . The highest average value of QoL is the physical domain (59.15±8,06%)while the lowest is the environmental domain (42.97±11.11%). The conclusion of thisstudy is muscle mass possessed by elderly study participants is good. The QoL isclassified as moderate.Keywords: elderly people, muscle mass, quality of life,  WHOQL-BREF questionnaire

scholarly journals NURSING AND AUDIOLOGY:

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (06) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Vinicius Lessa de Souza
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Elderly Person ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Increased Risk

Geriatrics help prevent and promote actions that help to minimize the impacts on the quality of life of the elderly. Being the nurse together with a multidisciplinary team, of vital importance in the development of these actions, The Nurse seeks to adapt the reality and the environment to which the elderly person is, thus enabling a better quality of life in this environment. The audiologist audiologist aims at a concern in hearing health, seeking to assist in the prevention and promotion of actions that help patients to have a more effective social interaction and avoid isolation in the face of difficulties that they may present. In short, the natural aging process causes damage to various functions of the human body, and one of them is auditory. The presence of hearing loss has several negative consequences for the quality of life of individuals, especially social isolation and in these cases hearing aids end up being strong allies to minimize the impacts that hearing loss causes on people's lives. Thus, this work aims to relate the issue of social isolation caused by hearing loss, increased risk of depression in the selection process and adaptation of hearing aids for the elderly and the role of the geriatric nurse aiming at improving the quality of life and preventing problems that may arise. In this study, a bibliographic search was made in the databases and an interface between two areas of health: Nursing and Speech Therapy, and its search to improve the quality of life of the elderly population as a social being.

scholarly journals Survival and quality of life after surgery for colorectal cancer in the elderly: a comparative study

2018 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Jiménez ◽  
Miguel Ángel Pacha ◽  
David Pares ◽  
María Esteve ◽  
José Troya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Colorectal Cancer ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
The Elderly

scholarly journals Being an institutionalized elderly person: meaning of experiences based on Heidegger’s phenomenology

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (6) ◽  
pp. 1632-1638 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camila Calhau Andrade Reis ◽  
Tânia Maria de Oliva Menezes ◽  
Adriana Valéria da Silva Freitas ◽  
Larissa Chaves Pedreira ◽  
Raniele Araújo de Freitas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Elderly Person ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Progressive Loss ◽  
Loss Of Autonomy ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

ABSTRACT Objective: Analyze the meaning of being an elderly person living in a long-term institution. Method: Qualitative study based on Martin Heidegger’s thought. Twelve phenomenological interviews were conducted with people aged over 60 years living in a long-term institution for the elderly in the city of Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil. Results: The units of meaning identified were: experience of progressive loss of autonomy and independence, perception of living in an institution as an inevitable circumstance; and being-with becoming being-alone/being-lonely. After the identification of ontic aspects and hermeneutical understanding, the unit of meaning was constructed: meaning of being an elderly person living in a long-term institution. Final considerations: The ontological needs referring to being an elderly person remain forgotten. As we are ontic and ontological, limited care to the ontic instance indicates deficiencies in institutionalization. Improvements are required to ensure the right to age with quality of life to this population.

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