The Active Ageing Index (AAI) and its Relation to the Quality of Life of Older Adults

ABSTRACTThe objective of the study was to design and evaluate a pilot programme aimed at promoting the active ageing of older adults at the Mexican Institute of Social Security. The study was conducted in three stages: (a) design; (b) implementation; and (c) before–after evaluation through analysis of changes in functional status, occupational functioning and health-related quality of life. To overcome the limitations of the study design, we evaluated the effect of 80 per cent adherence to the programme on the outcome variables using the generalised linear regression models (GLM). Two hundred and thirty-nine older adults agreed to participate, of whom 65 per cent completed the programme. Most were women; the average age was 77 years. Adherence to the programme was higher than 75 per cent for the group who completed active ageing services and less than 60 per cent for the drop-out group. Overall, 46 per cent of older adults reached an adherence level of 80 per cent or higher. Adherence was significantly associated with improved quality of life total score (coefficient 2.7,p<0.0001) and occupational functioning total score (coefficient 2.2,p<0.0001). Participation of older adults in an active ageing programme may improve their health-related quality of life and occupational functioning. It is necessary to identify the potential barriers and to implement strategies to improve the recruitment and retention rates during the intervention.

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Cross Cultural Adaptation and Validation of Nigerian (Igbo) Version of the Older People’s Quality of Life Questionnaire (OPQOL-35): a Validation Study

10.21203/rs.3.rs-1044115/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Ukamaka Gloria Mgbeojedo ◽

Christopher Olusanjo Akosile ◽

Chisom Cassandra Ekigbo ◽

Emmanuel Chiebuka Okoye ◽

Echezona Nelson Ekechukwu ◽

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Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Older Adults ◽

Internal Consistency ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Assessment Tools ◽

Active Ageing ◽

Life Questionnaire ◽

Health And Social Care ◽

Significant Difference

Abstract Background Quality of life (QoL) has been revealed to determine an older adult’s assessment of successful and active ageing; and to evaluate various range of health and social care interventions. Most QoL assessment tools were developed for use in developed countries. This may not be suitable for developing nations such as Nigeria. There is need for availability of culture- and environment- specific tools for assessment of QoL. This study was therefore designed to cross-culturally adapt the OPQOL-35 into Igbo language, and determine its reliability and validity. Methods The original English OPQOL-35 (E-OPQOL-35) was translated into Igbo language, synthesized, back translated, and subsequently subjected to expert panel review, pre-testing and cognitive debriefing interview, following the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ guideline. The final Igbo version (I-OPQOL-35) was tested for internal consistency, concurrent and structural validities in a cross-sectional study of 115 consenting apparently healthy older adults (54.8% females) that were recruited from conveniently selected local government areas in Enugu State, at 0.05 level of significance. Results The OPQOL-35 was cross-culturally adapted to Igbo with all its 35 items retained. The Spearman correlation coefficients between the participants’ domain and total scores on the I-OPQOL-35 and E-OPQOL-35 (rho = 0.92-1.00) were excellent. The Mann Whitney-U test revealed no significant difference between corresponding scores in the E-OPQOL-35 and I-OPQOL-35 (p = 0.65-0.94). The internal consistency coefficient of the I-OPQOL-35 was 0.78. Conclusions The I-OPQOL-35 is therefore a valid and reliable instrument for the assessment of QoL among Igbo older adults in Nigeria.

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Active ageing – perspectives on health, participation, and security among older adults in northeastern Thailand – a qualitative study

BMC Geriatrics ◽

10.1186/s12877-020-01981-2 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Manothai Wongsala ◽

Els-Marie Anbäcken ◽

Sirpa Rosendahl

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Older Adults ◽

Daily Living ◽

Daily Life ◽

Qualitative Content Analysis ◽

Active Ageing ◽

Research Approach ◽

Policy Planning ◽

Northeastern Thailand

Abstract Background Health, participation, and security are the basic pillars of active ageing suggested by the WHO. The concept is used by professionals but requires exploration from the perspectives of older people themselves. This study aims to explore how older adults experience and describe health, participation, and security. Methods A qualitative research approach was used based on open-ended interviews with 20 older Thai adults aged 60–92 years. The interviews were analysed using qualitative content analysis. Results The results showed perspectives related to experiences of daily life and local culture. Health while ageing, was described as the absence of barriers to continued daily living, combined with a peaceful and adaptive mindset. Participation was described as maintaining social networks and being a formal volunteer, with an emphasis on the “making of merits”, of meaningful activities and being respected. Security was described as manageable living conditions and managing to finalize life well by balancing dependency and independency in relation to children to sustain the traditional value of gratitude between generations. Conclusions These understandings will support healthy policy planning by providing resources and activities that relate to older Thai adults’ perspectives of health, participation and security and ultimately contribute to a better quality of life.

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“What a Mobility-Limited World”: Design Requirements of an Age-Friendly Playable City

10.20944/preprints201810.0536.v1 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Liliana Vale Costa ◽

Ana Isabel Veloso ◽

Michael Loizou ◽

Sylvester Arnab ◽

Richard Tomlins ◽

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Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Older Adults ◽

Community Support ◽

End Users ◽

Active Ageing ◽

Route Guidance ◽

Game Based Learning ◽

Ageing Society ◽

Design Requirements

A key concern in an ageing society is citizens’ mobility. As populations age, disability impairments can affect active ageing, health-related wellbeing and quality of life. In this paper, we present the on-going research project SeriousGiggle—Game-based learning for triggering active ageing. Its goal is to assess the potential of game-based learning for active ageing and contribute to a sense of wellbeing and quality of life. It also seeks to improve the mobility of older adults by creating a set of journey plans with route guidance that are rated in terms of safety, community support, environment and age-friendliness. Drawn on our field work with 33 co-designers, 40 end users and 10 semi-structured interviews with Subject Matter Experts, we identify a set of necessary design requirements to an Age-friendly Playable City. This study recommends the use of gamification and playful techniques to engage the end-users to provide information about local traffic signs, pavement conditions, wayfinding and, therefore, help to create route guidance and walking assistance that are personalized to older adults’ context in terms of location, travel fitness, mobility impairments and motivations.

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Associative participation of older adults and subjective quality of life: exploring self-selection bias

Ageing and Society ◽

10.1017/s0144686x1400021x ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 35 (7) ◽

pp. 1343-1363 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

KARIM AHMED-MOHAMED ◽

FERMINA ROJO-PEREZ ◽

GLORIA FERNANDEZ-MAYORALAS ◽

MARIA JOÃO FORJAZ ◽

PABLO MARTINEZ-MARTIN

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Older Adults ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Satisfaction With Life ◽

Subjective Quality ◽

Active Ageing ◽

Selection Effects ◽

Subjective Quality Of Life ◽

Self Selection

ABSTRACTActive ageing policies seek to increase the quality of life of older people in three areas: health, security and participation. This paper focuses on a specific type of participation: associations. Its objective is to explore the possible self-selection effects of this type of participation, using global subjective quality of life indicators (satisfaction with life) and domain-specific indicators (satisfaction with leisure, community social integration and emotional resources). For this, a structural equation modelling analysis was conducted, taking into account bi-directional relationships between the variables of interest. The data come from a conditions and quality of life survey conducted in 2008 among a sample of 1,106 individuals aged 60 or over, living in community-dwellings in Spain. The results illustrate a complex model of relationships in which associative participation is not statistically significantly associated with the satisfaction measures used. This highlights the importance of self-selection effects and raises the issue of the effectiveness of associative participation as a tool to enhance the life satisfaction of older adults.

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The effect of roles prescribed by active ageing on quality of life across European regions

Ageing and Society ◽

10.1017/s0144686x21000726 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-25

Author(s):

Martin Lakomý

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Older Adults ◽

Panel Data ◽

Fixed Effects ◽

Later Life ◽

Active Ageing ◽

European Regions ◽

Activity Increase ◽

Care Giving

Abstract The active ageing approach supports a set of roles or activities that are supposed to be beneficial for older adults. This paper reassesses the benefits of activities for the quality of life by (a) analysing many activities at the same time to control each other, (b) using panel data to detect the effects of activities over time, and (c) performing separate analyses for four European regions to test the context-specificity of the effects. The effects of roles in later life are tested on panel data from three waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) project. The results of fixed-effects regression show that only some activities – volunteering, participating in a club and physical activity – increase the quality of life, and that care-giving within the household has the opposite effect. Moreover, the beneficial effects are much weaker and less stable than the other types of regression suggest; they are beneficial only in some regions, and their effect is much weaker than the effects of age, health and economic situation. Therefore, the active ageing approach and activity theory should reflect the diverse conditions and needs of older adults to formulate more-context-sensitive and less-normative policy recommendations.

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Assessing the impact of pandemic on the resilience of older adults in Tomsk region

Успехи геронтологии ◽

10.34922/ae.2021.34.6.015 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 928-933

Author(s):

Е. А. Фролова ◽

В. А. Маланина

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Older Adults ◽

Emotional State ◽

Well Being ◽

Active Ageing ◽

Design Tools ◽

Resilience Scale ◽

Tomsk Region ◽

The Impact

В статье впервые представлены результаты оценки влияния пандемии на жизнестойкость старшего поколения на примере Томской обл. На основе данных опроса (400 респондентов 55-92 лет) с использованием шкалы Коннор-Дэвидсона (CD-RISC-25) проведена оценка жизнестойкости старшего поколения и выявлены ее предикторы. Установлена статистически значимая зависимость жизнестойкости, материального благосостояния и эмоционального состояния пожилых респондентов в условиях пандемии коронавируса. Результаты исследования дополняют существующие подходы к оценке и измерению параметров качества жизни старшего поколения и могут быть использованы для проектирования инструментов укрепления жизнестойкости в русле концепции активного долголетия. The article presents pioneer results of assessing the impact of the pandemic on the resilience of the older adults of the Tomsk region. We assessed the resilience of older adults and its predictors basing upon the survey of 400 respondents aged 55-92 using the Connor-Davidson resilience scale (CD-RISC-25). The results reveal statistically significant relationship between the resilience, material well-being and emotional state of elderly respondents in the context of the coronavirus pandemic. The results of the study complement the existing approaches to assessing and measuring the parameters of the quality of life of the older adults, and can be used to design tools for strengthening the resilience in line with the concept of active ageing.

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