Men's Support Groups for the Elderly

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. Colletti ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Support Groups ◽  
The Elderly

scholarly journals Unsung Heroes: Caregiver Experiences During COVID 19

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 961-961
Author(s):  
Aaron Mata ◽  
Melody Mickens ◽  
Kara Dassel ◽  
Rebecca Utz
Keyword(s):  
Support Groups ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Informal Caregivers ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Emotional Wellbeing ◽  
Unique Challenge ◽  
Care Services ◽  
National Organizations

Abstract Objectives: COVID-19 has spared no age group but is proving to be most dangerous to the elderly and individuals with more vulnerable immune systems. COVID-19 represents a unique challenge to caregivers above and beyond the ordinary stresses they experience and many informal caregivers currently providing care have not planned for the pandemic and its effect on access to health care services, respite resources, and support groups, etc. The purpose of our study is to assess COVID-19’s impact on the mental health and wellness of informal caregivers. Method: An interdisciplinary collaborative of caregiving scholars created a 47-item web-based anonymous survey with quantitative and qualitative questions to assess caregiving experiences during COVID-19. Participants were recruited through convenience sampling using social media and flyers distributed by local/national organizations. Results: Participants (N=96) reported an average age of 50 years old and were predominately adult children caring for parents (45%) with neurological (40%) and chronic medical conditions (25%). Only 4% cared for individuals diagnosed with COVID 19. Nearly all reported significant changes in caregiving that included increased time spent caregiving for care recipients and other family members, greater stress and worry, fewer breaks for self-care, increased isolation, and decreased access to social/emotional supports and respite services. Discussion: Unplanned changes to caregiving during COVID 19 have created an acute need for research, clinical care guidelines, and policy promoting virtual respite care, social support for caregivers, and more readily available community based resources that promote caregivers’ physical and emotional wellbeing without requiring them to leave their homes.

scholarly journals Strategies to Support Groups at Risk of Victimization

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 411
Author(s):  
Abolghasem Khodadi
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Risk Groups ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Care For The Elderly ◽  
Vulnerable People ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Emotional Dependence

At-risk groups are the elderly, the disabled, and women. Some of the reasons for the victimization of at-risk groups are due to their own characteristics. These include financial and emotional dependence, physical, mental and psychological weakness, inability to control and manage property and assets. Other causes of vulnerability and harassment are related to their relatives, social workers and nurses, such as costly care for the elderly and disabled, the inability of their relatives and social worker to care them. This article seeks to provide support for groups at risk of victimization. This article tries to provide health, financial and insurance services to improve the unfavorable situation of these people. With these strategies, the risk of victimization of vulnerable people is reduced.

Dementia in Our Midst: The Moral Community

1995 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen G. Post
Keyword(s):  
Support Groups ◽  
Assisted Suicide ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Treatment Quality ◽  
Alzheimer Type ◽  
Presymptomatic Testing ◽  
Progression Of Disease ◽  
Previous State

This article focuses on the elderly patient with a progressive and irreversible dementia, most often of the Alzheimer type. However dementia, the decline in mental function from a previous state, can occur in all ages. For example, if Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the dementia of the elderly, increasingly AIDS is the dementia of many who are relatively young. I will not present the major ethical issues relating to dementia care following the progression of disease from the mild to the severe stages, for I have done this elsewhere. Among the issues included are: presymptomatic testing, both psychological and genetic; responsible diag- nostic disclosure and use of support groups; restrictions on driving and other activities; preemptive assisted suicide; advance directives for research and treatment; quality of life in relation to the use of life-extending technologies; and euthanasia.

Bereavement support groups for the elderly: Characteristics of potential participants

Death Studies ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 9 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 309-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale A. Lund ◽  
Margaret Dimond ◽  
Merry Juretich
Keyword(s):  
Support Groups ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Bereavement Support

Change Mechanisms of Support Groups for Caregivers of Dementia Patients

1996 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 575-587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pim Cuijpers ◽  
Clemens M. H. Hosman ◽  
Joep M. A. Munnichs
Keyword(s):  
Support Groups ◽  
Support Group ◽  
Elderly Person ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Job Support ◽  
Dementia Patients ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Important Means ◽  
Quantitative Analyses

The support group is an important means of providing help to families of demented elderly. In the Netherlands, the support group is widely used in mental health care. (Quasi-)experimental studies, however, have not established its effectiveness. In this article, an overview of the Dutch support groups and a review of the literature are given. In addition, a study among 110 participants of support groups is presented. Quantitative analyses show that the support group is especially effective in caregivers who are dissatisfied about their role as caregiver and have no job. Support groups are also more effective when the elderly person is more apathetic and lives in a nursing home. Interviews with caregivers show that the participants experience four forms of support: information, advice on how to cope with the situation, and moral and emotional support. These ways of support provide caregivers with a better perspective on their situation and help them to better cope with problems and emotions.

scholarly journals THE LEVEL OF MENTAL HEALTH OF THE ELDERLY IN THE CITY CLUSTER

ICCD ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 300-303
Author(s):  
Mochamad Soelton ◽  
Yanto Ramli ◽  
Eko Tama Putra Saratian ◽  
Fatchur Rohman
Keyword(s):  
Community Service ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Elderly Group ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Implementation Team ◽  
Care For The Elderly ◽  
Care Training ◽  
The City ◽  
Alternative Solutions

Community service has agreed that by analyzing partners, there is a need for proposals to provide alternative solutions that can increase posbindu and create sub-districts that do not have elderly posbindu, and increase the happiness of the elderly group. In addition, training is also needed to increase their enthusiasm and skills and care. The existence of technology transfer then the community with training in genotric care for cadres of Posbindu as partner communities. Therefore, with extension training and genotric care training that can provide added value to these activities. Thus this training can be carried out for the elderly who are offered to provide happiness and health for members of the elderly group as partners. The purpose and purpose of this activity is to provide counseling and provide assistance to make Posbindu that has been actively running. Community Program Activities aimed at Posbindu in West Jakarta specifically in South Meruya with the aim of increasing awareness of the elderly throughout. Increase Posbindu Elderly in each district. Give motivation to Posbindu Elderly cadres to care for the elderly in their respective regions in the care of genotric customers. Contributions made by support groups Get the results of good cooperation between Posbindu members and the Rukun Tetangga, Rukun Warga and the activity implementation team. Elderly members get motivation to conduct gerontic training.

scholarly journals O ETHOS DISCURSIVO EM INTERAÇÕES DE UM GRUPO DE APOIO A FAMILIARES DE PESSOAS COM A DOENÇA DE ALZHEIMER

2019 ◽  
pp. 195
Author(s):  
Fernanda Ferreira Gimenes ◽  
Caio César Costa Ribeiro Mira
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Support Group ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Institutional Context ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Video Recordings

Resumo:No Brasil, o contingente da população acometida pela Doença de Alzheimer (DA), é responsável por cerca de 50-70% das demências em idosos (BURLA et al., 2013), fator que limita ou dificulta as atividades diárias e tem impactos diretos na qualidade de vida da pessoa acometida pela patologia e por seus familiares. Nesse contexto, os Grupos de Apoio (GA) constituem espaços importantes de socialização onde familiares e cuidadores podem compartilhar experiências de cuidado e de convívio com a pessoa acometida pela DA. Este artigo visa à análise da noção de ethos discursivo em interações ocorridas no contexto institucional de um Grupo de Apoio. O referencial teórico deste trabalho está fundamentando no campo Análise do Discurso, especificamente nos estudos acerca da noção de ethos desenvolvidos por Maingueneau (1997; 2011) e Amossy (2005). Analisamos um corpus proveniente de gravações de vídeo de reuniões do GA, que são mediadas por um médico neurogeriatra. Os resultados de nossas análises demonstram que ocorre uma alternância de imagens discursivas do médico, revelando a autoridade enunciativa do profissional de saúde e a aproximação com os interlocutores no contexto interacional do GA.Palavras chave: doença de alzheimer; ethos; grupo de apoio. DISCURSIVE ETHOS IN INTERACTIONS OF A SUPPORT GROUP FOR FAMILY OF PEOPLE WITH ALZHEIMER'S DISEASEAbstract:In Brazil, the contingent of the population affected by Alzheimer's disease, according Burlá et al (2013), accounts for about 50-70% of dementias in the elderly, a factor that limits or hinders daily activities and has direct impacts over the life’s quality of the person affected by the disease and his relatives. In this context, Support Groups are important spaces of socialization where family members and caregivers can share experiences of care in the search for a better acceptance. This article aims to demonstrate the notion of discursive ethos in interactions that occurred in the institutional context of a Support Group for family members and caregivers of people affected by Alzheimer 's disease. The theoretical reference of this work is based on the Discourse Analysis field, specifically in the ethos studies of Maingueneau (1997,2011) and Amossy (2005). We analyzed a corpus derived from video recordings of meetings of this group, mediated by a neurogeriatric. The analysis of GA interactions demonstrates the physician as an enunciator of authority through what is enunciated by him, as well as an approximation of the pre-discursive ethos which is revealed in the enunciation scene.Keywords: Alzheimer’s disease; ethos; support groups.

Cell surface changes during aging of human bladder epithelium examined by lectin probes and SEM

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 966-967
Author(s):  
J. Jacob ◽  
M.F.M. Ismail
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly ◽  
Ultrastructural Changes ◽  
Pokeweed Mitogen ◽  
Asymmetric Structure ◽  
Luminal Surface ◽  
Bladder Epithelium ◽  
Aldehyde Groups ◽  
Cell Surface Changes ◽  
Phosphate Buffered Saline ◽  
Surface Changes

Ultrastructural changes have been shown to occur in the urinary bladder epithelium (urothelium) during the life span of humans. With increasing age, the luminal surface becomes more flexible and develops simple microvilli-like processes. Furthermore, the specialised asymmetric structure of the luminal plasma membrane is relatively more prominent in the young than in the elderly. The nature of the changes at the luminal surface is now explored by lectin-mediated adsorption visualised by scanning electron microscopy (SEM).Samples of young adult (21-31 y old) and elderly (58-82 y old) urothelia were fixed in buffered 2% glutaraldehyde for 10 m and washed with phosphate buffered saline (PBS) containing Ca++ and Mg++ at room temperature. They were incubated overnight at 4°C in 0.1 M ammonium chloride in PBS to block any remaining aldehyde groups. The samples were then allowed to stand in PBS at 37°C for 2 h before incubation at 37°C for 30 m with lectins. The lectins used were concanavalin A (Con A), wheat germ agglutinin (WGA), phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) and pokeweed mitogen (PWM) at a concentration of 500 mg/ml in PBS at pH 7.A.

The effect of dental geriatric curricula on attitudes toward the elderly

1988 ◽  
Vol 52 (9) ◽  
pp. 516-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Mann ◽  
TJ Bomberg ◽  
JM Holtzman ◽  
DB Berkey
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly
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