scholarly journals Building Researchers' Capacity for Embracing the Engagement of Older Adults in Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 151-151
Author(s):  
Rachel Lessem ◽  
Margaret Danilovich ◽  
Rebecca Berman
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Older Adult ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Advisory Boards ◽  
Advisory Groups ◽  
Mode Design ◽  
Model Research ◽  
Services And Supports ◽  
The Voice

Abstract The Sage Resource Project aimed to broaden the pool of researchers who include the voice of older adults using long-term services and supports (LTSS) in research processes. We developed training to build researcher capacity to engage older adults through the development of Sage Model research advisory boards. Methods included training strategies for learning mode, design, duration, and emphasis of content that were informed by results of a researcher needs assessment and input from 2 older adult research advisory boards. Over 100 researchers registered for a 4-webinar series. All respondents to webinar evaluations (22) reported learning about topics that aligned with webinar objectives and had interest in engaging older adult stakeholders and/or developing an older adult research advisory board in the future. Representatives from five universities expressed interest attending online interactive workshops to build advisory boards. Lessons learned identify directions for research on best practices for developing older adult advisory groups.

scholarly journals The Sage Resource Project: Readying Researchers to Transform Research through Engagement

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 150-151
Author(s):  
Rebecca Berman ◽  
Jesse Bella ◽  
Margaret Danilovich ◽  
Rachel Lessem
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Stakeholder Engagement ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Advisory Boards ◽  
Model Research ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Services And Supports

Abstract The Sage Model enables engagement of older adults receiving Long Term Services and Supports (LTSS), a group typically excluded in research. This presentation focuses on lessons learned from The Sage Resource Project, a Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute funded project. We collaborated with RCMAR and Roybal centers to encourage NIH-affiliated researchers to embrace stakeholder engagement through promotion of the Sage Model. Few studies include an assessment of researcher needs when it comes to stakeholder engagement. We conducted a needs assessment (n=103) finding <50% of researchers presented work to older adults and only 41% interacted with older adults receiving LTSS. However, >90% were likely to attend webinars to learn more. Additionally, 70% of respondents were interested in setting up their own Sage Model research advisory boards. We identify opportunities for transforming LTSS research by including older adults as well as directions for future research on engagement, based on researchers’ identified needs.

State Scorecard on Long-Term Services and Supports for Older Adults, People with Physical Disabilities, and Family Caregivers

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan C. Reinhard Reinhard ◽  
Ari Houser Houser ◽  
Enid Kassner Kassner ◽  
Robert Mollica Mollica ◽  
Kathleen Ujuari Ujuari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Family Caregivers ◽  
Physical Disabilities ◽  
Services And Supports ◽  
People With Physical Disabilities

scholarly journals Economic Uncertainties in Retirement: Risk Factors, Strategies, and Resilience

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 685-685
Author(s):  
Christine Bishop ◽  
Karen Zurlo
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Financial Risk ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Student Loan ◽  
Defined Contribution ◽  
Income Sources ◽  
Economics Of Aging ◽  
Personal Management ◽  
Services And Supports

Abstract Even with forethought and planning, a lot can threaten economic wellbeing in the years ahead for older adults retiring at typical retirement ages. Although results for any individual cannot be predicted with certainty, some risks are quantifiable: for example, mortality/ longevity and disability risks are reasonably well-defined. Risk of dementia is not so well understood, and may be changing. Financial risk might be seen as manageable, but older adults relying on retirement income sources can be especially vulnerable to unprecedented shocks to the general economy. We consider four aspects of this dilemma. First, older adults retiring with outstanding debts may have difficulty weathering financial shocks. Our first presentation provides up-to-date information about trends in indebtedness at older ages, especially focusing on newly salient types of indebtedness: medical and student loan debt, and debt incurred to smooth finances in the recent recession. Stewardship of finances during retirement can be a challenging personal management undertaking. Our second presentation will consider how dementia can complicate this process. Protection against outliving one’s resources is more complex and costlier in the era of defined contribution retirement accounts. Our third presentation will discuss strategies to combine retirement assets, including Social Security claiming, to hedge longevity risk. Finally, needs for long-term services and supports may be met with either paid or informal (family) care, or both, but cannot be predicted with certainty. Our fourth presentation examines the long-term impacts on families due to the difficulty in insuring against this risk. Economics of Aging Interest Group Sponsored Symposium.

scholarly journals Housing, Affordability, and Community-Based Aging

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 690-691
Author(s):  
Samara Scheckler
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Older Adult ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Housing Tenure ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Housing Cost ◽  
Home Equity ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Term Care

Abstract The house acts as both an environment of care and a vehicle to financially potentiate long-term community-based support. While housing can empower a diverse set of options for a person-centered aging process, inadequate housing can also impede healthy aging in the community. This symposium teases out the nodes where housing acts to benefit or limit safe community-based aging. The first paper in this symposium, Homeownership Among Older Adults, describes typologies of older adult homeownership and sensitively highlights trends, disparities and important considerations of homeownership in later life. The next two papers take these older adults and explores situations where their housing acts as an asset or as a burden. Identifying Cost Burdened Older Adults acknowledges that housing cost burdens look different for older adults than younger cohorts. A more precise definition of older adult housing cost burden is proposed to help researchers and policymakers better synthesize the complex relationships between older adult housing and their long-term care decisions. The Long-Term Care Financing Challenge then explores the role of home equity in expanding the community-based long-term care choice set for older adults. This paper demonstrates benefits (both realized and unrealized) in home equity and suggests policy implications moving forward. Finally, Cardiometabolic Risk Among Older Renters and Homeowners disentangles the relationship between housing and health by demonstrating health disparities that are associated with housing tenure, conditions and affordability. Taken together, this symposium explores the complex and multidirectional relationships between housing, long-term care and older adult health.

scholarly journals Hospital to Home: Supporting the Transition From Hospital to Home for Older Adults

2021 ◽  
pp. 084456212110443
Author(s):  
Brittany Barber ◽  
Lori Weeks ◽  
Lexie Steeves-Dorey ◽  
Wendy McVeigh ◽  
Susan Stevens ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Family Caregivers ◽  
Older Adult ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Home Care Services ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Hospital To Home

Background An increasing proportion of older adults experience avoidable hospitalizations, and some are potentially entering long-term care homes earlier and often unnecessarily. Older adults often lack adequate support to transition from hospital to home, without access to appropriate health services when they are needed in the community and resources to live safely at home. Purpose This study collaborated with an existing enhanced home care program called Home Again in Nova Scotia, to identify factors that contribute to older adult patients being assessed as requiring long-term care when they could potentially return home with enhanced supports. Methods Using a case study design, this study examined in-depth experiences of multiple stakeholders, from December 2019 to February 2020, through analysis of nine interviews for three focal patient cases including older adult patients, their family or friend caregivers, and healthcare professionals. Results Findings indicate home care services for older adults are being sought too late, after hospital readmission, or a rapid decline in health status when family caregivers are already experiencing caregiver burnout. Limitations in home care services led to barriers preventing family caregivers from continuing to care for older adults at home. Conclusions This study contributes knowledge about gaps within home care and transitional care services, highlighting the importance of investing in additional home care services for rehabilitation and prevention of rapidly deteriorating health.

scholarly journals WHAT PREDICTS TRANSITIONS IN CARE FOR OLDER ADULTS NEW TO LONG-TERM SERVICES AND SUPPORTS?

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (suppl_1) ◽  
pp. 951-951
Author(s):  
K.B. Hirschman ◽  
M. Toles ◽  
A. Hanlon ◽  
B.K. Daly ◽  
M.D. Naylor
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Transitions In Care ◽  
Services And Supports

Age-Friendly Communities and Cultural Pluralism: Examining Saskatoon’s Chinese-Canadian Social Enclave

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Lindsay Herman ◽  
Ryan Walker ◽  
Mark Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Older Adult ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Ethnic Enclave ◽  
Capital Development ◽  
Chinese Canadian ◽  
Group Experience

ABSTRACT This article uses findings from qualitative interviews to examine the experiences of members of Saskatoon’s Chinese-Canadian older-adult community in terms of their realities of aging and access to important geriatric resources. Promoting an understanding of both group experience and a broader conceptualization of age-friendly development, we argue that the notion and implications of a spatial ethnic enclave are replaced in the Saskatoon context by a social enclave. This network of social support is evident in Chinese-Canadian older adults’ access to housing, recreation, transportation, and health services. The article concludes with lessons learned that would help enhance culturally pluralistic age-friendly development. This work underlines the significance of social capital development within more marginalized older-adult communities, both as a reaction to outside discrimination, and as a means of ensuring healthy and inclusive community aging.

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