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How Can We Support The Rights Of Older People to Age-In-Place?
No full textAs we continue our look at inclusive approaches to community empowerment, Professors Ryan Woolrych and Judith Sixsmith highlight the key challenges and considerations for designing urban environments for and with older people. This draws on their current cross-national research which seeks to understand the lived experiences of older adults residing in cities in the UK and Brazil
Building an Inclusive Research Culture
No full textCaroline Dickson - ORCID: 0000-0001-5132-0109
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5132-0109Item is not available in this repository.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34390-3_21pubpu
Sixsmith, Judith, and Andrew J. Sixsmith, Empirical Phenomenology: Principles and Method, Quality and Quantity, 21(1987), 313-333.*
No full textGives the principles of phenomenological method and describes the use of Multiple Sorting Task (MST) approach and Multidimensional Scalogram Analysis (MSA) in analyzing phenomenological data
Case Study: A Community-Based Approach to Developing Optimal Housing for Low-Income Older Adults
No full textSince 2014, the Gerontology Research Centre at Simon Fraser University, in partnership with the Richmond Kiwanis Senior Citizens Housing Society and the city of Richmond, has overseen the transition of low-income senior tenants from old, dilapidated accommodations into an affordable housing redevelopment project (Kiwanis Towers) in Richmond, British Columbia. The challenge was ensuring the seniors experienced their move with reduced stress and to find solutions for enhanced social participation to prevent loneliness and social isolation. To do this, a transdisciplinary (across diverse disciplines and sectors) partnership was created among gerontologists, health scientists, a geographer, an ecologist, and a psychologist along with the building’s management, and local community organizations (involving the older adult tenants themselves). A series of community consultations using innovative community-based research methods identified the need for housing interventions that build a sense of place (Fang et al., 2018) and that keep older adults mentally and physically active while providing opportunities to build social capital as well as facilitating an enhanced role for older adults in the design process (Sixsmith et al., 2017)
Ethical issues in the documentary data analysis of Internet posts and archives.
Full text linkThe documentary analysis of email posts and archives for qualitative research has been outlined elsewhere (Murray & Sixsmith, 1998a; Murray and Sixsmith, in press). Although there is an increase in the number of studies being conducted on listserv and newsgroup material in health research, this has not always been accompanied by a careful, in-depth consideration of the concomitant ethical issues. Therefore, this article outlines the ethical considerations surrounding this form of research, including issues of: accessing voices, consent, privacy, anonymity, interpretation, and ownership and authorship of research material
Stephanie Mathson interviews poet and author Judith Kerman
No full textPoet and author Judith Kerman talks about her experience as a Fulbright scholar in the Dominican Republic, her work translating poems by Cuban poet Dulce Mar\ueda Loynaz, learning Spanish, translating poems from Spanish, and her book "Retrofitting Blade Runner". Kerman is interviewed by Stephanie Mathson of the Michigan State University Libraries. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
Healthy ageing and home: The perspectives of very old people in five European countries
Full text linkThis paper reports on in-depth research, using a grounded theory approach, to examine the ways in which very old people perceive healthy ageing in the context of living alone at home within urban settings in five European countries. This qualitative study was part of a cross-national project entitled ENABLE-AGE which examined the relationship between home and healthy ageing. Interviews explored the notion of healthy ageing, the meaning and importance of home, conceptualisations of independence and autonomy and links between healthy ageing and home. Data analysis identified five ways in which older people constructed healthy ageing: home and keeping active; managing lifestyles, health and illness; balancing social life; and balancing material and financial circumstances. Older people reflected on their everyday lives at home in terms of being engaged in purposeful, meaningful action and evaluated healthy ageing in relation to the symbolic and practical affordances of the home, contextualised within constructions of their national context. The research suggests that older people perceive healthy ageing as an active achievement, created through individual, personal effort and supported through social ties despite the health, financial and social decline associated with growing older. The physicality and spatiality of home provided the context for establishing and evaluating the notion of healthy ageing, whilst the experienced relationship between home, life history and identity created a meaningful space within which healthy ageing was negotiated
Poet and author Judith Kerman reads her selected works at the Michigan Writers Series
No full textPoet and author Judith Kerman reads selected poems, including the English translation of poems by Cuban poet Dulce Mar\ueda Loynaz, and answers questions from audience. Kerman is introduced by Michigan State University Librarian Jeanne Drewes. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the Main Library
sj-docx-1-dhj-10.1177_20552076231185442 - Supplemental material for Exploring the use of digital technology to deliver healthcare services with explicit consideration of health inequalities in UK settings: A scoping review
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-dhj-10.1177_20552076231185442 for Exploring the use of digital technology to deliver healthcare services with explicit consideration of health inequalities in UK settings: A scoping review by Albert Farre, Mei Fang, Beth Hannah, Meiko Makita, Alison McFadden, Deborah Menezes, Andrea Rodriguez, Judith Sixsmith and Nicola M Gray in DIGITAL HEALTH</p
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