OLDER ADULTS AND THE WORLD CAFé APPROACH: CROSS-GENERATIONAL INITIATIVES IN RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

Abstract In Canada, numbers of older adults are considered to be increasing, and by 2036, it is expected that seniors will reach 25% of the total population. Since 2009, the Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit (SPHERU) has developed an interdisciplinary approach to a community-based research program focused on rural older adults. The world café approach is recognized as collaborative and ideal for encouraging dialogue, sharing knowledge, and developing action plans. Set up like a café, four to six participants at each table engage in a series of three conversational rounds lasting approximately 20 minutes each. At the end of each round, participants move to different tables while the facilitator(s) remain at their original tables. We incorporated a world café approach in three distinct research projects, facilitating a total of five world café events. For each of these events, we also engaged with graduate and undergraduate students who were trained to serve as table facilitators. Participating students represented a variety of disciplines including social work, nursing, and gerontology. Older adults participating in the world café events reported positive experiences and appreciation for the opportunity to discuss new information. Student facilitators identified their participation as a “real life” learning and networking opportunity that enhanced their classroom experiences. Challenges identified included issues related to individual mobility, and issues related to noise and sound quality for those with hearing deficiencies. A community-based approach to research is effective when engaging with this population, and a word café event brings seniors directly into the discussion.

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Empowering Undergraduate Students Through Community-Based Research

Culturally Engaging Service-Learning With Diverse Communities - Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-2900-2.ch017 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 288-307

Author(s):

Gemma Punti ◽

Nitya V. Chandiramani ◽

Chelsea Maria Steffens

Keyword(s):

Transformative Learning ◽

Undergraduate Students ◽

Real Life ◽

Community Members ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Based Research ◽

Civic Learning ◽

Civic Skills ◽

Group Interviews

Community-based research (CBR) is a powerful pedagogical tool for actively engaging and empowering undergraduate students in their research endeavors. This chapter explores how CBR facilitated undergraduate researchers' transformative learning and the development of their civic skills when collaborating with alternative schools. Using the undergraduate researchers' reflections, focus group interviews, and a survey, this case study reveals how developing relationships with young, underserved community members was essential in changing their perspectives regarding the educational system and themselves. Furthermore, the undergraduate researchers' obstacles in collaborating with the community and within their team cohorts became critical sources of civic learning. The challenges of working with various partners fostered their capacity to navigate ambiguity, develop flexibility, and determine which experiences to communicate to community partners. CBR compelled the undergraduate researchers to maneuver through the unforeseen challenges of real life collaborations.

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Updated Understanding of the Experiences and Perceptions of Alcohol Use in Later Life

Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement ◽

10.1017/s0714980820000306 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-12

Author(s):

Sarah L. Canham ◽

Joe Humphries ◽

Anthony L. Kupferschmidt ◽

Emily Lonsdale

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Alcohol Use ◽

Service Providers ◽

Later Life ◽

Research Approach ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Based Research ◽

Personal Experiences ◽

Physical Effects ◽

The Cost

ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to update our understandings of older adults’ experiences and perceptions of alcohol use. Taking a community-based research approach, three Knowledge Café workshops hosted 66 older adults and service providers in Vancouver, BC. Thematic analysis identified three overarching categories: (a) reasons older adults use alcohol, including out of habit, social expectations, or to self-medicate; (b) personal experiences of alcohol use, including reduced consumption over time as a result of the cost of alcohol, the physical effects, and increased knowledge about the effects of alcohol; and (c) older adults’ perceptions of alcohol use outcomes, including positive outcomes from drinking in moderation and negative outcomes that can worsen one’s health, lead to tolerance, and harm others. Developing and promoting healthy drinking behaviours in later life is needed as the general population continues to age.

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Program Eliminasi Lymphatic Filariasis di Indonesia

Journal of Health Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases ◽

10.22435/jhecds.v3i2.1790 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 63-70

Author(s):

Gusti Meliyanie ◽

Dicky Andiarsa

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Health Problem ◽

Public Health Problem ◽

Active Role ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Based Research ◽

Maximum Coverage ◽

Global Target ◽

The World ◽

Long Time

Filariasis has been a public health problem in Indonesia for a long time and WHO has established this disease as a neglected disease which is a public health problem in the world, therefore a global filariasis elimination program that must be achieved in 2020. This article compiles some literature for writing references related to the development of global filariasis elimination and the progress of filariasis elimination in Indonesia particularly. Filariasis elimination program in Indonesia has been running at least 26 districts that have stopped implementing mass drug administration (MDA) from 239 endemic filariasisdistricts. The remaining districts are expected to have implemented MDAstart from 2015 so that the year 2020 is completed and verified also given predicates of filariasis elimination according to global target of filariasis elimination. Management-based and community-based research is important to determine the best model of elimination. There are still many challenges in increasing coverage, so that continuing education efforts on filariasis and the importance of treatment will motivate communities to play an active role in achieving maximum coverage targets, and national filariasis elimination targets can be achieved by 2020.

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Peter M. Tiersma: “Legal language reform is an important goal”

Courier of the Kutafin Moscow State Law University ◽

10.17803/2311-5998.2020.65.1.123-130 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 123-130

Author(s):

I. A. Martynenko

Keyword(s):

Legal System ◽

English Language ◽

Real Life ◽

Interdisciplinary Approach ◽

Professional Activity ◽

Legal Language ◽

Important Goal ◽

Language Reform ◽

The World

The article tells about the life and professional path of the outstanding American lawyer and linguist Peter Mejes Tiersma. His contribution to the development of the world linguistics and the main directions of his professional activity are described. The author tells about the monographs and articles by P. Tiersma, quotes his works, lists the organizations in which he was a member. The relevance of Tiersma’s works is due to the fact that in the AngloAmerican legal system there is often a gap between the structure and meaning of written laws and their application in real life. The article presents Tiersma’s proposals for solving this problem, which are based on the interdisciplinary approach and simplification of the legal English language. The works of Russian linguists based on the opinion of this American specialist are also listed.

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Estonianness (lith. ‘estiškumas’) in Lithuanian from the perspective of economic linguistics

Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics ◽

10.12697/jeful.2017.8.1.19 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 359-375

Author(s):

Jolanta Zabarskaitė

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Real Life ◽

National Language ◽

Semantic Structure ◽

Community Based ◽

The World ◽

The Media ◽

Sociocultural Consciousness ◽

The Impact

Processes are taking place in the 21st century that are altering the role of language and society’s attitude towards language. The virtualisation of the world, the influence of the media, and the processes of globalisation are all driving a shift in the role of language. This has made linguistics, as well as other humanities and social sciences, turn back to neuroscience and a focus on cognitive processes.The interaction between linguistic processes and real-life evolution has two axes, with semantic structure analysis playing an important part on the linguistic plane, and analysis of the impact of language on real-life processes. The economic linguistics approach makes it possible to tie the predominant sense elements of any concept to the linguistic worldview of the national language and the sociocultural consciousness of the actual language community.The objective of this article is to introduce several linguistic ideas by revealing: 1) the method of reconstruction of deep semantic structures – the ‘semantic dowry’ analysis; 2) the method of identifying the predominant sense elements of a concept in the sociocultural consciousness of an actual language community based on the approach of economic linguistics. In order to demonstrate how this method works, the article identifies the predominant sense elements of the concept estiškumas (‘Estonianness’) denominated by the lexemes estas/estė/estai (‘Estonian’, N, SG-M/SG-F/PL) and estiškas/estiška (‘Estonian’, ADJ, M/S).Kokkuvõte. Jolanta Zabarskaitė: Eestist leedu keeles. Lekseemist estiškumas (‘eestilik’) leedu keeles majanduslingvistika vaatepunktist. 21. sajandil käimasolevad protsessid muudavad nii keelte rolle kui ka ühiskonna suhtumist neisse. Maailma virtualiseerumine, meedia mõju ja globaliseerumisprotsessid põhjustavad keele rollide muutumise. See on sundinud keeleteadust nagu ka teisi humanitaar- ja sotsiaalteadusi pöörduma neuroteaduste juurde ja keskenduma kognitiivsetele protsessidele. Keeleliste protsesside ja reaalse maailma evolutsiooni vahelisel vastastikmõjul on kaks telge: tähendusstruktuuri analüüs, mis mängib olulist osa keelelisel tasandil, ning keele mõju analüüs reaalse maailma protsessidele. Majanduslingvistiline lähenemine võimaldab siduda ükskõik millise mõiste peamised tähenduselemendid riigikeele keelelise maailmapildi ja tegeliku keelekogukonna sotsiokultuurilise teadvusega. Käesolevas artiklis tutvustatakse 1) semantiliste süvastruktuuride rekonstrueerimise meetodit ning 2) majanduslingvistilisel lähenemisel põhinevat meetodit, mis võimaldab tuvastada mõiste peamisi tähenduselemente tegeliku keelekogukonna sotsiokultuurilises teadvuses. Kirjeldamaks valitud meetodi rakendumist, selgitatakse lekseemide estas/estė/estai (‘eesti’, N) ning estiškas/estiška (‘eesti’, ADJ) näitel mõiste estiškumas (‘eestilikkus’) peamisi tähenduselemente.Märksõnad: eestilikkus; majanduslingvistika; semantika; tähendus; alltähendus; diskursus

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From Uncle Tom’s Cabin to “Countering Colston”: Slavery and Memory in a Transatlantic Undergraduate Research Project

International Public History ◽

10.1515/iph-2019-0006 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Nina Reid-Maroney ◽

Amy Bell ◽

Neil Brooks ◽

Olivette Otele ◽

Richard White

Keyword(s):

Undergraduate Students ◽

Public History ◽

Undergraduate Research ◽

Community Based ◽

Research Project ◽

History And Memory ◽

Community Based Research ◽

Uncle Tom's Cabin ◽

Student Researchers ◽

The Uk

AbstractIn 2016–17 and in 2018–19, undergraduate students and faculty at Huron University College in London, Canada, and at Bath Spa University in the UK collaborated on an innovative community-based research project: Phantoms of the Past: Slavery and Resistance, History and Memory in the Atlantic World. Our paper outlines the structure of the project, highlights student research, and argues that the Phantoms undergraduate student researchers helped to create an innovative and important body of work on transatlantic Public History and local commemorative practice.

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Recruiting Older Adults With Functional Difficulties Into a Community-Based Research Study: Approaches and Costs

Journal of Applied Gerontology ◽

10.1177/0733464818786612 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 39 (6) ◽

pp. 644-650 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Manka Nkimbeng ◽

Laken Roberts ◽

Roland J. Thorpe ◽

Laura N. Gitlin ◽

Alice Delaney ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Low Income ◽

Low Cost ◽

Community Outreach ◽

Community Dwelling ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Based Research ◽

Government Organizations ◽

Functional Difficulties ◽

Community Based Organizations

The CAPABLE (Community Aging in Place, Advancing Better Living for Elders) trial in Baltimore City tested whether an interdisciplinary team of occupational therapists, nurses, and handymen reduces disability and health expenditures in community-dwelling older adults with functional difficulties. This study describes methods and associated costs of recruiting 300 low-income, cognitively intact, older adults with functional difficulties into this study. Sources of participant enrollment included direct mailings (35%), government program referrals (19%), community-based organizations (16%), ambassador referrals (15%), and media (4%). Fifty six (30%) of 187 older adults referred through government organizations were enrolled, while 49 (7.6%) of 648 referred from community-based organizations were enrolled. Total recruitment costs were US$81,453.12. Costs per participant for mailings, media, ambassadors, and community-based organizations were respectively US$745.10, US$256.82, US$22.28, and US$1.00. Direct mailings yielded the most participants but was the most costly method per participant. Ambassadors were least expensive and may offer a low-cost addition to community outreach for recruitment of older adults into research.

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The Importance of Social Connectedness in Building Age-Friendly Communities

Journal of Aging Research ◽

10.1155/2012/173247 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 2012 ◽

pp. 1-9 ◽

Cited By ~ 62

Author(s):

Charles A. Emlet ◽

Joane T. Moceri

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Social Connectedness ◽

Aging In Place ◽

Community Members ◽

Younger Adults ◽

Social Reciprocity ◽

Level Data ◽

World Cafe ◽

The World ◽

Community Forum

The purpose of this paper is to further elucidate the importance of social relationships and social connectedness with aging in place and in developing elder-friendly communities. The process used in this study was inclusive of younger adults (age 40–65) as well as older adults (65+) in order to further understand how they envision a community that could support their own aging in place. A community forum, using the World Café format, was conducted in order to engage community members, 40 years and older, in conversation about the importance of social connectedness in elder-friendly communities. A second purpose of this forum was to obtain data on what would keep aging boomers in their community as they age. Three major themes emerged from qualitative analysis of the forum:social reciprocity,meaningful interactions, andstructural needs/barriers. The results of this study reinforce the importance of social connectedness in creating and maintaining elder-friendly communities for older adults, as well as soon-to-be retired individuals, wishing to maintain life connectedness to their community. The study suggests the possibility of using more nontraditional research techniques (such as the World Café process) for gathering community level data.

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