Older People in Germany During the COVID-19 Pandemic:The Least, the More, and the Most Affected

AbstractOlder people have been identified as a particularly vulnerable group during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the question of how older people actually fared during the COVID-19 pandemic has only been sporadically addressed. This article aims to partly fill this gap by classifying subgroups of older people using Latent Class Analysis. Indicators used are: risk perception, safety behavior, and well-being. To predict subgroup membership, age, gender, living arrangement, children, chronic illness, conflict, socioeconomic status, and migration history are controlled for. The data analyzed stem from a phone survey among 491 older people (75–100 years) in Germany conducted in September/October 2020. Results show that three subgroups of older people – the least, the more and the most affected – can be formed based on their risk perception, safety behavior, and well-being, indicating the usefulness of these three constructs for identifying and studying older people particularly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures taken to contain it.

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Future Living Arrangement for Aging Parents and Its Associated Factors

Jurnal Keperawatan Soedirman ◽

10.20884/1.jks.2019.14.3.1196 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Rahmi Setiyani ◽

Made Sumarwati ◽

Dian Ramawati

Keyword(s):

Older People ◽

Marital Status ◽

Associated Factors ◽

Living Arrangement ◽

Well Being ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Family Type ◽

Fisher Exact Test ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Exact Test

Background: Shift in demographic structure in Indonesia has raised concern over number of issues, including change in living arrangement of older people. Objectives: The purpose of this study is to examine adult children’s choice of future living arrangement for elderly parent and its associated factors. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted among 300 young adults in Central Java, Indonesia. Descriptive statistics, Chi-Square and Fisher exact test were used to analyze the data. Results: Majority of respondents (97.3%) preferred parents to live at home, in multi-generational household with children and/or grandchildren (84.5%) in their old age. The choice was significantly influenced by children gender, marital status of parent, and family type (p=0.00; p=0.05, and p=0.05 respectively). Conclusions: In certain circumstances, living in multigenerational household still became a favorable option of living arrangement for elderly parents. Children gender, parent’s marital status and family type were likely to influence the choice. Further researches are needed to investigate which best living arrangement that support older people well-being.

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The Structure and Determinants of Intergenerational Support Exchange Flows in an Eastern European Setting

Research on Aging ◽

10.1177/0164027520920026 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 42 (9-10) ◽

pp. 262-271

Author(s):

Boróka Bó ◽

Zachary Zimmer ◽

Codrina Rada

Keyword(s):

Adult Children ◽

Latent Class ◽

Population Aging ◽

Adult Child ◽

Well Being ◽

Physical Distance ◽

Migrant Children ◽

Intergenerational Support ◽

And Migration ◽

Bidirectional Exchange

Although the provision, receipt, and bidirectionality of support exchanges are important for generational well-being, our understanding of them is lacking in Eastern Europe, a region undergoing swift population aging and social change. This study links intergenerational support exchanges to determinants in Romania, with a focus on proximity of adult children. Data are from the Romanian Aging and Migration Survey ( N = 1,398). Analyses involve two stages. First, latent class analysis (LCA) is conducted to develop an intergenerational support typology. The second uses the typology as a dependent variable in multivariate equations predicting exchange determinants. LCA analysis yielded six propensity classes. Physical distance strongly predicts class membership. Having coresident adult children increases the likelihood of bidirectional exchange. Having an international migrant adult child reduces the chances, even with coresident adult children present. International migrant children lead to a higher probability of being a nonexchanger or receiving monetary support. There is a need for continued consideration of bidirectional exchange models in rapidly developing contexts.

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Mothers’ Well-Being in Families and Family Structure: Examining Constellations of Stressors Across Life Domains

Journal of Family Issues ◽

10.1177/0192513x211048479 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 0192513X2110484

Author(s):

Claudia Recksiedler ◽

Janine Bernhardt ◽

Valerie Heintz-Martin

Keyword(s):

Family Structure ◽

Regression Models ◽

Latent Class ◽

Multiple Stressors ◽

Well Being ◽

Life Domains ◽

Vulnerable Group ◽

Family Diversity ◽

Parenting Role ◽

German Data

Identifying conditions under which parents thrive is a key concern of family research. Prior research often focused on mothers’ well-being in single life domains, yet it is more likely to be shaped by stressors that stem directly from the parenting role and related stressors emerging from spillover processes into other domains. We therefore examine how stressors concerning mothers’ subjective, relational, and financial well-being accumulate and combine within subgroups of mothers and whether the likelihood to belong to these multidimensional subgroups varies by family structure. Using representative German data ( N = 11,242), latent class analysis revealed four distinct subgroups of maternal well-being with varying exposure to financial, psychological, and relational stressors. Regression models showed that particularly single mothers were at risk to belong to the most vulnerable group with exposure to multiple stressors. Findings are discussed in light of persisting disparities among post-separation families despite demographic trends toward growing family diversity.

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The Care Ethics of Child Health Nurses in Danish Asylum Centers: An Ethnographic Study

Global Qualitative Nursing Research ◽

10.1177/2333393620984141 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 ◽

pp. 233339362098414

Author(s):

Amina Barghadouch ◽

Marie Norredam ◽

Morten Skovdal

Keyword(s):

Child Health ◽

Participant Observation ◽

Well Being ◽

Ethnographic Study ◽

Red Cross ◽

Migration History ◽

Ethical Care ◽

Care Practices ◽

And Migration ◽

Health And Well Being

Child health nurses play an important role in promoting the health and well-being of children and families seeking asylum. However, little is known about how they establish caring partnerships with families in asylum centers. In this article, we examine the ethical care practices that child health nurses within Danish asylum centers adopt to overcome barriers, related to culture, language and migration history, in delivering care. We conducted ethnographic fieldwork in four Danish Red Cross asylum centers, involving participant observation and individual interviews with 20 families and six child health nurses. A thematic analysis of the material reveals five ethical care practices; compassionate care, humanitarian care, flexible care, collaborative care, and supportive care. We show how the confluence of these types of care enables child health nurses to promote health and well-being of children seeking asylum, and discuss the enabling role of the humanitarian culture that prevails within the asylum centers.

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Longitudinal Patterns of Stability and Change in Tenacious Goal Pursuit and Flexible Goal Adjustment among Older People over a 9-Year Period

BioMed Research International ◽

10.1155/2017/8017541 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2017 ◽

pp. 1-9 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Guillaume Martinent ◽

Nathalie Bailly ◽

Claude Ferrand ◽

Kamel Gana ◽

Caroline Giraudeau ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Older People ◽

Process Model ◽

Latent Class ◽

Satisfaction With Life ◽

Longitudinal Design ◽

Well Being ◽

Dual Process ◽

Future Research ◽

Health Satisfaction ◽

Goal Adjustment

Using the dual-process model of assimilative-tenacity (TGP) and accommodative-flexibility (FGA), the study aims to identify trajectories of TGP and FGA over five time points within a 9-year period, explore the relationships between the trajectories of TGP and FGA, and explore if participants from distinct TGP and FGA trajectories differed in indicators of well-being and depression. Latent class growth analysis was used in a five-wave longitudinal design among an older population of 747 participants over 65 years. Results highlight (1) emergence of four trajectories for flexibility (low and increasing, moderate and increasing, moderately high and stable, and high and stable trajectories) and three trajectories for tenacity (low and stable, moderate and stable, and high and decreasing trajectories), (2) that older people belonging to particular trajectories of FGA are not more likely to belong to particular trajectories of TGP, and (3) that participants from the high and decreasing TGP and high or moderately high and stable FGA trajectories were characterized by high score of perceived health, satisfaction with life, and self-esteem and low score of depression moods. These results highlight that the heterogeneity in longitudinal TGP and FGA scores throughout the life span needs to be accounted for in future research.

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Determinants of Patterns of Need for Home and Community-Based Care Services Among Community-Dwelling Older People in Urban China: The Role of Living Arrangement and Filial Piety

Journal of Applied Gerontology ◽

10.1177/0733464819871875 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 39 (7) ◽

pp. 712-721

Author(s):

Yuan Yuan Fu ◽

Ernest Wing Tak Chui

Keyword(s):

Older People ◽

Filial Piety ◽

Latent Class ◽

Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽

Living Arrangement ◽

Community Dwelling ◽

Community Based ◽

Term Care ◽

Service Need

This study aims to identify older people’s home- and community-based care (HCBC) service need patterns and explore the role of living arrangement and filial piety in affecting such patterns. A total of 556 older people were selected in Beijing, China. Latent class analysis and multinomial logistic regression were adopted to identify the service need patterns and the influencing factors. A three-class model of service need patterns was explored (high-needs group, moderate-needs group, and low-needs group). Living arrangement was related to HCBC service need patterns. Compared with the high-needs group, those living with at least two family members were more likely to express low needs or moderate needs. Living arrangement was a moderator for the effect of filial piety on HCBC needs. Greater recognition of the effects of living arrangement and filial piety should enrich the Andersen model and provide a robust stimulus for long-term care policy development and for service delivery and social work.

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