scholarly journals Conceptualizing the Value of Aging: What is it Like to Be An Older Woman in the 21st Century?

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 972-972
Author(s):  
Karen Shilvock-Cinefro
Keyword(s):  
Older Women ◽  
Phenomenological Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Successful Ageing ◽  
Older Woman ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenological ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Vast Range

Abstract The basis for this hermeneutic phenomenological research was to identify common themes in women 65 years of age and older and determine whether these women felt valued in ageing. The best description of this research becomes the study of the phenomena as real living or “entering the lifeworld “(Finlay, 2012). The research sought to increase the knowledge of how older women feel about their own ageing and the effect of society’s response to them. The participants covered a large age range of 66 to 93 years of age all of which experienced physical, emotional, and social changes involving age. The participants' response to these changes of ageing and society’s response to them ranged from very positive to very distressing. Twelve women were interviewed from a vast range of locations throughout the United States through zoom due to COVID 19. Their responses reflect four main categories: ageism, successful ageing, active engagement, and social support. The interviews focused on seven main questions: Tell me about being your age? Is there a time you can recall when you first felt older? Have you ever felt mistreated as an older adult? Have you ever felt you were discounted or ignored as being an older woman? Have you done anything to maintain your youth? Have you done anything to feel youthful? Have you ever felt dismissed related to your age? Utilizing seven questions and the conversation with these questions brought forth this study. This became a platform for these women to tell their stories.

Dowagers, Debs, Nuns and Babies: The Politics of Nostalgia and the Older Woman in the British Sunday Night Television Serial

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 769-784 ◽  
Author(s):  
Estella Tincknell
Keyword(s):  
Older Women ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Mature Female ◽  
Older Woman ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Position ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Popular Television

The extensive commercial success of two well-made popular television drama serials screened in the UK at prime time on Sunday evenings during the winter of 2011–12, Downton Abbey (ITV, 2010–) and Call the Midwife (BBC, 2012–), has appeared to consolidate the recent resurgence of the period drama during the 1990s and 2000s, as well as reassembling something like a mass audience for woman-centred realist narratives at a time when the fracturing and disassembling of such audiences seemed axiomatic. While ostensibly different in content, style and focus, the two programmes share a number of distinctive features, including a range of mature female characters who are sufficiently well drawn and socially diverse as to offer a profoundly pleasurable experience for the female viewer seeking representations of aging femininity that go beyond the sexualised body of the ‘successful ager’. Equally importantly, these two programmes present compelling examples of the ‘conjunctural text’, which appears at a moment of intense political polarisation, marking struggles over consent to a contemporary political position by re-presenting the past. Because both programmes foreground older women as crucial figures in their respective communities, but offer very different versions of the social role and ideological positioning that this entails, the underlying politics of such nostalgia becomes apparent. A critical analysis of these two versions of Britain's past thus highlights the ideological investments involved in period drama and the extent to which this ‘cosy’ genre may legitimate or challenge contemporary political claims.

Political Competition and Right-Wing Terrorism: A County-Level Analysis of the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. 106591292110067
Author(s):  
Stephen C. Nemeth ◽  
Holley E. Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Political Competition ◽  
The United States ◽  
County Level ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Electoral Outcomes ◽  
Economic Anxiety ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Level Analysis

While many previous studies on U.S. right-wing violence center on factors such as racial threat and economic anxiety, we draw from comparative politics research linking electoral dynamics to anti-minority violence. Furthermore, we argue that the causes of right-wing terrorism do not solely rest on political, economic, or social changes individually, but on their interaction. Using a geocoded, U.S. county-level analysis of right-wing terrorist incidents from 1970 to 2016, we find no evidence that poorer or more diverse counties are targets of right-wing terrorism. Rather, right-wing violence is more common in areas where “playing the ethnic card” makes strategic sense for elites looking to shift electoral outcomes: counties that are in electorally competitive areas and that are predominantly white.

Issues in Research on the Older Woman of Color

1989 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles H. Mindel ◽  
Barbara L. Kail
Keyword(s):  
Older Women ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Older Woman ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Conducting Research

The difficulties of conducting research on minority group older women have not been considered by those in the field of non-compliance. Methodologists have long discussed the issues of doing research on compliance and those of doing research in minority communities. We attempt to integrate these two themes and suggest how the concerns described can be incorporated into our practice and assessment of research.

scholarly journals Safety profile of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell immunotherapies (CAR-T) in clinical practice

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulia Bonaldo ◽  
Nicola Montanaro ◽  
AlbertoVaccheri ◽  
Domenico Motola
Keyword(s):  
T Cell ◽  
Chimeric Antigen Receptor ◽  
Clinical Setting ◽  
Safety Profile ◽  
Antigen Receptor ◽  
The United States ◽  
Reporting Odds Ratio ◽  
Cytokine Release ◽  
Car T ◽  
Age Range

Abstract Purpose Two chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapies have been approved in the United States (USA) in 2017 and Europe (EU) in 2018: axicabtagene ciloleucel and tisagenlecleucel. They contain the patient’s own T cells, which are extracted, genetically modified, and reinfused. Alongside the good efficacy results, the assessment of safety profile of these new therapies represents a great challenge. Our aim was to analyze the reports of the adverse drug reactions (ADR) after CAR-T administration as occurred in the real clinical setting. Methods We performed a retrospective observational study, collecting all the reports in EU (EudraVigilance, EV) and US (FAERS) databases of ADRs regarding axicabtagene ciloleucel and tisagenlecleucel. Both descriptive and statistical analyses were performed, the latter by using Reporting Odds Ratio (ROR). Results A total number of 1426 reports of suspected ADRs were retrieved in EudraVigilance and FAERS. Patients’ reported age reflected the age range for which the drugs are approved (18–64 years for axicabtagene ciloleucel and patients aged under 25 years for tisagenlecleucel). The most reported event was cytokine release syndrome (CRS), 185 events for tisagenlecleucel and 462 for axicabtagene ciloleucel in FAERS and 137 and 498, respectively, in EudraVigilance. A disproportionality was found comparing axicabtagene ciloleucel with tisagenlecleucel for the above-mentioned event: EV ROR 2.47, 95% CI 2.22–2.74, FAERS 1.89, 1.70–2.10. Conclusion CRS represents the major problem with the administration of CAR-T therapies. Our analysis has not revealed new ADRs; however, it supports the safety profile of CAR-T with new data from real clinical setting.

Gender, mobility and contact

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-167
Author(s):  
Catherine E. Travis ◽  
Inas Ghina
Keyword(s):  
Older Women ◽  
High Mobility ◽  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Aceh Province ◽  
Rural Variety ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over Time

Abstract We examine variation in a rural variety of Acehnese spoken in Aceh Province, to better understand the impact of long-term contact with Indonesian and increasing urbanization. The Great Aceh variety is characterized by variable realization of word-final (t) as a dental vs. glottal stop. Analyses of over 2,000 tokens of this variable from a corpus of spontaneous speech from 35 speakers indicate that the variability is relatively stable among men, and among women of high mobility, measured in terms of education, occupation, and time spent outside Great Aceh. Women with low mobility produce the lowest rates of [t̪], and in this group we observe a higher rate of [t̪] by younger than older women, suggesting change over time. We thus find both stability – among those who have long enjoyed high levels of mobility – and change – among those most affected by recent social changes, namely low-mobility women.

Differences in Severity and Emotions for Public and Private Face-to-Face and Cyber Victimization Across Six Countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (8) ◽  
pp. 1216-1229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle F. Wright ◽  
Takuya Yanagida ◽  
Ikuko Aoyama ◽  
Anna Ševčíková ◽  
Hana Macháčková ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Responses ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cyber Victimization ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Perceived Severity ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Individualism And Collectivism ◽  
Age Range

The purpose of this study was to examine the role of medium (face-to-face, cyber) and publicity (public, private) in perceptions of severity and emotional responses to victimization among adolescents from China, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, India, Japan, and the United States, while controlling for gender, individualism, and collectivism. There were 3,432 adolescents (age range = 11-15 years, 49% girls) included in this study. They read four hypothetical victimization scenarios, which were manipulated based on the medium and publicity, including public face-to-face victimization, private face-to-face victimization, public cyber victimization, and private cyber victimization. After reading the scenarios, adolescents rated the severity of each scenario and their feelings of anger, sadness, and embarrassment following victimization. Overall, higher severity related to each of the emotional responses. Furthermore, greater perceptions of severity increased adolescents’ feelings of anger, sadness, and embarrassment more often for public victimization and face-to-face victimization than for private victimization and cyber victimization. Some variations were found in these associations based on country of origin. The findings from this study indicate that perceived severity and emotional responses are different in various victimization contexts. Therefore, it is important to consider various victimization contexts.

scholarly journals YouTube: An international platform for sharing methods of cheating

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher M Seitz ◽  
Muhsin M Orsini ◽  
Meredith R Gringle
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
The United States ◽  
Instructional Videos ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
Traditional Technologies ◽  
Written Assignments ◽  
Age Range

This study investigated the video sharing website www.youtube.com for the presence of instructional videos that teach students how to cheat on academic work. Videos were analysed to determine the methods of cheating, the popularity of the videos, the demographics of viewers and those uploading the videos, and the opinions of viewers after watching these types of videos. A total of 43 videos were included in this study. Those featured in the videos taught viewers how to cheat on exams, homework, and written assignments using modern and traditional technologies. The far majority of those featured in the videos, and their viewers, were males within the age range of those who attend middle school, high school, and college. Videos were watched by people from several different nations, including the United States (US), Canada, Australia, India, and the United Kingdom (UK). The study's results suggest that instructional cheating videos are popular among students around the world. Positive viewer feedback indicates that the videos have educated and motivated students to put the methods of cheating found in the videos to use. Educators should consider YouTube as a resource in order to become familiar with various methods of cheating.

scholarly journals Association Between HIV-Related Tweets and HIV Incidence in the United States: Infodemiology Study

10.2196/17196 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. e17196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Stevens ◽  
Stephen Bonett ◽  
Jacqueline Bannon ◽  
Deepti Chittamuru ◽  
Barry Slaff ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Hiv Infection ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Hiv Risk ◽  
Intraclass Correlation ◽  
Hiv Infections ◽  
The United States ◽  
Infection Rates ◽  
Age Range

Background Adolescents and young adults in the age range of 13-24 years are at the highest risk of developing HIV infections. As social media platforms are extremely popular among youths, researchers can utilize these platforms to curb the HIV epidemic by investigating the associations between the discourses on HIV infections and the epidemiological data of HIV infections. Objective The goal of this study was to examine how Twitter activity among young men is related to the incidence of HIV infection in the population. Methods We used integrated human-computer techniques to characterize the HIV-related tweets by male adolescents and young male adults (age range: 13-24 years). We identified tweets related to HIV risk and prevention by using natural language processing (NLP). Our NLP algorithm identified 89.1% (2243/2517) relevant tweets, which were manually coded by expert coders. We coded 1577 HIV-prevention tweets and 17.5% (940/5372) of general sex-related tweets (including emojis, gifs, and images), and we achieved reliability with intraclass correlation at 0.80 or higher on key constructs. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were performed to identify the spatial patterns in posting HIV-related tweets as well as the relationships between the tweets and local HIV infection rates. Results We analyzed 2517 tweets that were identified as relevant to HIV risk and prevention tags; these tweets were geolocated in 109 counties throughout the United States. After adjusting for region, HIV prevalence, and social disadvantage index, our findings indicated that every 100-tweet increase in HIV-specific tweets per capita from noninstitutional accounts was associated with a multiplicative effect of 0.97 (95% CI [0.94-1.00]; P=.04) on the incidence of HIV infections in the following year in a given county. Conclusions Twitter may serve as a proxy of public behavior related to HIV infections, and the association between the number of HIV-related tweets and HIV infection rates further supports the use of social media for HIV disease prevention.

scholarly journals Meaningful use: an electronic medical record tool for cerebrospinal fluid shunt history

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 391-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lance S. Governale ◽  
Jeffrey M. Hoffman
Keyword(s):  
Medical Record ◽  
Electronic Medical Record ◽  
Meaningful Use ◽  
The United States ◽  
Remote Access ◽  
Information Technology Professionals ◽  
Csf Shunt ◽  
Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunt ◽  
Patient Level ◽  
Vast Range

The care of patients with shunted hydrocephalus can be complicated. The best assessment is provided when all data are available to the neurosurgery practitioner. However, data can be time-consuming to gather, especially in the setting of a busy practice, a trainee environment with duty-hour restrictions, and an electronic medical record (EMR) not specifically designed for the needs of subspecialists. For these reasons, the complete clinical picture, especially the historical component, is sometimes not assembled. To address these shortcomings, the authors created a patient-level electronic CSF shunt history tool that leverages the power of the EMR concordant with the United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services meaningful use principles. It is immediately available within the EMR for all users in all patient care contexts (e.g., outpatient, inpatient, perioperative, emergency, and remote access), centrally located, and designed to capture the vast range of circumstances inherent to the hydrocephalus population. Essential shunt data can be rapidly acquired and, as such, may decrease the likelihood of error in diagnosis and/or treatment. The tool also has the potential to aid the practicing neurosurgeon from clinical, quality improvement, and research standpoints. The authors have endeavored to describe this tool in a manner that would allow an interested neurosurgeon to share this publication with health information technology professionals to facilitate the development of a similar tool within their institution's own EMR platform.

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