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An exploration of system factors influencing older adults’ initial engagement with physical activity interventions
No full textBackground:Previous work has highlighted the need for researchers to look beyond the behavioural, cognitive, and motivational components of physical activity interventions for older adults, and to investigate the ‘system-related’ factors that may influence physical activity behaviour, which pertain to their social, physical, and operational contexts.Objective:This qualitative study aimed to explore the system factors influencing older adults’ initial engagement with physical activity interventions.Methods:Semi-structured one-to-one telephone interviews were conducted with 12 individuals aged 55 and over to gather their views on the subject. The study employed a qualitative descriptive approach, and a thematic analysis was carried out.Results:Participants identified various system factors they felt could influence older adults’ engagement with physical activity interventions, particularly relating to social support and relationships (e.g. being able to bring a friend to the first session), and the physical, social, and information environments (e.g. venues being reachable by bus or car).Conclusion:This study highlights system factors as a potentially important yet largely unexplored concept in the field of physical activity promotion. The findings provide practical information for public health practitioners to use when attempting to design physical activity interventions that older adults will willingly engage with, and the rationale for future research seeking to expand understanding of the influence of system factors on older adults’ initial engagement with physical activity interventions, as well as their subsequent physical activity behaviours beyond this
Factors Predicting Pressure Injury Incidence in Older Adults Following Elective Total Hip Arthroplasty: A Longitudinal Study
Get PDFOBJECTIVE: To identify the factors associated with pressure injury (PI) development in older adult patients who underwent elective total hip arthroplasty (THA). METHODS: A nonexperimental longitudinal prospective study was conducted with a sample of 40 patients undergoing elective THA. Patients were evaluated for PI at hospital admission, 24 hours postsurgery, at discharge, and 1 month after surgery. RESULTS: The incidence of PIs (category 1 or category 2) in this study was 7.9% 24 hours after surgery and 24.3% at discharge. The most common PI location was the sacrum/coccyx or the ischial tuberosity. This study found significant relationships between PIs and female sex (odds ratio [OR], 8.75), body fat mass percentage (OR, 1.15), and the motor score from a Functional Independence Measure scale (OR, 0.89). Finally, the following variables were also associated with PIs (P < .1): skeletal muscle mass (OR, 0.82), lower limb with osteoarthritis weight (OR, 0.61), lower limb without osteoarthritis weight (OR, 0.62), and geriatric depression scale (OR, 1.12). CONCLUSIONS: This work identifies those patients at higher risk of PI, enabling targeted prevention and treatment in the population of patients undergoing elective THA. The findings of this study are in line with extant literature and suggest that women with a higher percentage of body fat and less mobility had a higher risk of PI.</p
Youth entrepreneurship and heritage tourism: long term thinking for diaspora engagement. Lessons from Rwanda, Brazil and Barbados
Get PDFDiaspora youth have a unique stake in the heritage conservation, development and preservation efforts of their countries of origin. Offering richly evocative points of contact with the past, heritage is critical to diaspora youth for reaffirming a sense of belonging, building identity and catalysing psychological and social empowerment. Properly supported, engaging diaspora youth with their heritage also offers great potential for innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship across several economic sectors.The European Union Global Diaspora Facility (EUDiF), together with the support of researchers at the University of Winchester (UK), undertook a case study-based research project examining the connections between diaspora youth identity and the development of the heritage tourism sector in Barbados, Brazil and Rwanda. The purpose was to provide guidance to the EU and relevant governmental and non-governmental stakeholders on the role that entrepreneurship can play in attracting, establishing and nurturing long-term bonds between diaspora members and their countries of origin. This case study is one of five research projects analysing how governments can engage with their diaspora on different topics.This project sits at the crossroads of diaspora engagement, youth and job creation, all key EU priorities for sustainable development. The 2022 European Year of Youth seeks to accelerate support for youth knowledge, skills, and competences acquisition for personal and professional development. Anchored in the New European Consensus on Development, EUDiF assists governments of countries of origin to engage and collaborate more effectively with diaspora organisations and the EU to realise the development potential of diasporas. Supporting a range of stakeholders to develop opportunities within the heritage tourism sector, with a focus on the engagement of diaspora youth, can significantly contribute to both of these objectives and activities.The private sector is the engine of growth in the diaspora heritage tourism sector. While much is already known about diaspora tourism, how diaspora youth experience, organise and connect with cultural heritage requires more understanding. Covid-19 had underlined the need to find new ways of stimulating tourism recovery and developing innovative ways for the heritage sector to reach new audiences. Tapping into the evolving needs, interests and preferred modes of organizing amongst diaspora youth can play a critical role
Embodying Ubuntu, through the Physical Journal as an antidote to the effects of the Anthropocene.
No full textThis Article will explore, how embodying an interpretation of the South African concept of Ubuntu, through a praxis via my concept of the Physical Journal, can become an antidote to the alienating effects of the Anthropocene. The current effects of the Anthropocene, are underpinned by the ideology of liberal capitalism; which has been accelerating its economic indifference to the Eco-scene since the enlightenment. This much heralded period in the 18th century, saw people with my Yoruba cultural heritage, as commodities to be bought and sold. Thus, I would have been seen, at the time of the enlightenment, as a resource to be exploited along with the environment and livestock. As a consumable resource, I would not have been considered as having any rights to the lofty claims proposed by the enlightenment philosophers of equality and more specifically: life, liberty, and property
Musical Theatre Histories:Expanding the Narrative
No full textMusical theatre is often perceived as either a Broadway based art form, or as having separate histories in London and New York. Musical Theatre Histories: Expanding the Narrative, however, depicts the musical as neither American nor British, but both and more, having grown out of frequent and substantial interactions between both centres (and beyond). Through multiple thematic 'histories', Millie Taylor and Adam Rush take readers on a series of journeys that include the art form's European and American origins, African American influences, negotiations arounddiversity, national identity, and the globalisation of the form, as well as revival culture, censorship and the place of social media in the 21st century.Each chapter includes case studies and key concept boxes to identify, explain and contextualise important discussions, offering an accessible study of a dynamic and ever evolving medium. Written and developed for undergraduate students, this introductory textbook provides a newly focused and alternative way of understanding musical theatre history
"I Was Under No Necessity of Seeking My Bread": Robinson Crusoe and the Stewardship of Resources in Eighteenth-Century England
No full textThe essay reconsiders Robinson Crusoe's agriculture while on the desert island in terms of his stewardship of the land and making only enough bread for himself
Constructing the Places of Young People in Public Space: Conflict, Belonging and Identity
No full textBuilding on the growing discursive approach to people–place relations, we examine how young people negotiate people–place tensions and relations, and how they establish their everyday sense of place in contemporary public spaces. Facilitated by the use of Collaborative Spatial Mapping, analysis of focus group data from 51 young people focuses on three aspects of participants’ talk about the places that make up their everyday lives: appropriation of micro-geographical spaces, the construction of autobiographical insideness and the mobilization of shared socio-spatial histories. Our analysis illustrates young people's responses to a broader problematic of being ‘troublesome’ in public spaces, demonstrating how they construct a deep-rooted attachment to, and sense of themselves as located members within, such spaces. We argue that place appropriation and autobiographical insideness are important concepts for understanding the practice of citizenship by young people, and how such practice is embedded in wider political processes of spatial conflict and exclusion.</p