Patterns of Social Relationships and Psychological Well-being among the Elderly

1997 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keiko Takahashi ◽  
Junko Tamura ◽  
Makiko Tokoro
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Subjective Health ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Type Method

On the premise that social relationships among elderly adults differ in terms of the most significant, dominant figure, this study aimed to examine: (1) whether there were qualitative differences in supportive functions between family-dominant and friend-dominant affective relationships, and (2) whether “lone wolves”, who were deficient in human resources, had difficulties in maintaining their well-being. A total of 148 Japanese, over the age of 65, both living in communities and in institutions were individually interviewed about their social relationships using a self-report type method, the Picture Affective Relationships test, and their well-being was assessed using Depression, Self-esteem, Life satisfaction, and Subjective health scales. Results showed that there were no differences in psychological well-being between family-dominant and friend-dominant participants, but those who lacked affective figures had lower scores in subjective well-being than did their family-dominant and friend-dominant counterparts. The generalisation of these findings to other cultures is discussed.

scholarly journals An attempt to optimize human resources allocation based on spatial diversity of COVID-19 cases in Poland

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrzej Jarynowski ◽  
Monika Wójta-Kempa ◽  
Łukasz Krzowski
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Spatial Clustering ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Spatial Diversity ◽  
Arrival Times ◽  
Infection Dynamics ◽  
Socio Economic Variables ◽  
General Mobility ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Second Wave

AbstractOur task is to examine the relationship between the SARS-CoV-2 arrival and the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the first wave (period from March 4 to May 22, 2020 (unofficial data)), and socio-economic variables at the powiat (county) level (NUTS-4) using simple statistical techniques such as data visualization, correlation analysis, spatial clustering and multiple linear regression. We showed that immigration and the logarithm of general mobility is the best predictor of SARS-CoV-2 arrival times, while emigration, industrialization and air quality explain the most of the size of the epidemic in poviats. On the other hand, infection dynamics is driven to a lesser extent by previously postulated variables such as population size and density, income or the size of the elderly population. Our analyses could support Polish authorities in preparation for the second wave of infections and optimal management of resources as we have provided a proposition of optimal distribution of human resources between poviats.

scholarly journals The Perception Customers about the Means Quality Infrastructure of Ngantang Public Health Center

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 258-264
Author(s):  
Dwi Ratna ◽  
Sandu Siyoto ◽  
Byba Melda Suhita
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Health Center ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Public Health Center ◽  
The Public ◽  
Customer Perceptions

Background: Ngantang Public Health Center, being a public health center, always tries to apply minimum service standards. Services provided are a form of effort organized to meet community needs. Purpose: The research objective was to explore customer perceptions about the quality of buildings, equipment, human resources at Public Health Center Ngantang. Methodhs: The design used in this research is a qualitative descriptive study with a case study design, which describes customer perceptions about infrastructure; quality of buildings, equipment, human resources at the Public Health Center Ngantang. The sampling technique of this research is purposive sampling technique. The informants in this study consisted of 21 people, namely 5 BPJS PBI, 5 General, 5 Independent BPJS and 6 patient companions as triangulation informants. Data collection techniques using observation, interviews and documentation. Results: The results of the research on customer perceptions about the Public Health Center Ngantang building are the contours of lands prone to landslides, adequate parking facilities, unsafe security facilities, building components and materials are good enough, facilities for persons with disabilities and the elderly are incomplete, consumables are not yet available, furniture is less structured, human resources or labor lack of sympathy and empathy. Conclusion: By conducting this research, it can be used as a reference for Public Health Center Ngantang in improving the quality of infrastructure. consumables are not yet available, water furniture is less structured, human resources or labor lack sympathy and empathy. By conducting this research, it can be used as a reference for Public Health Center Ngantang in improving the quality of infrastructure.

Duurzame inzetbaarheid in de ouderenzorg

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Semeijn ◽  
Monique Veld ◽  
Tinka van Vuuren ◽  
Ben van Veen
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Work Stress ◽  
Work Ability ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Sustainable Employability ◽  
Health Care Institutions

Sustainable employability in health care institutions for the elderly: Human Resources activities as a buffer for work stress Sustainable employability in health care institutions for the elderly: Human Resources activities as a buffer for work stress In this study, the influence of HR activities on the relation between work stress and sustainable labor participation was investigated among 121 workers in the Dutch elderly care sector. The relevant concepts, i.e., work stress, HR activities, work ability, employability and vitality, were measured within a survey design. Several control variables were taken into account as well, such as care function and working hours. Hierarchical regression analyses were conducted to test hypotheses on the effects on workability, employability and vitality, and the moderating effects of HR activities. Results indicate that work stress negatively affects the work ability and vitality of employees. Perceived HR activities positively affect their employability and vitality. Moreover, HR activities can buffer the negative effects of work stress on vitality. Our findings suggest that HR activities can play a positive role in coping with work stress. However, HR activities are not sufficient to preserve the work ability of workers in health care.

Professional activity of the elderly on the labour market in the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic .

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 21-33
Author(s):  
Adam A. Zych
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Older People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Economic Problem ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Retirement Benefits ◽  
Demographic Aging ◽  
The Impact

Demographic aging has an impact on the labor market, because human resources on the labor market are also aging, which in the process of professional deactivation are becoming a major socio-economic problem of the state. They lead to a widening difference between revenues and expenses for retirement benefits as well as narrowing the labor market. The author discusses basic determinants of professional deactivation on the labor market and barriers to professional activation of older people. The main topic of this article however it was done the impact of a coronavirus pandemic on situation of ‘outgoing generation’ on the contemporary labor market.

scholarly journals A Look at Professional Education in Health with Emphasis on Aging

10.3823/2509 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Rodolfo Tomaz de Lima ◽  
Natanael De Freitas Neto ◽  
Thais Paulo Teixeira Costa ◽  
Rosana Lúcia Alves de Vilar ◽  
Janete Lima de Castro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Research Result ◽  
Family Health ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Health Strategy ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Health Strategy ◽  
Health Support

This article purpose is to analyze the insertion of the population aging theme in the training of professionals working in the Family Health Strategy and in the Family Health Support Center. This is a study with a qualitative approach and documentary type, carried out in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, located in the Northeastern region of Brazil. To reach the objective, the pedagogical projects of the courses for the professions that work in the Family Health Strategy and in the Family Health Support Unit were searched. The documents analysis was based on the content analysis method, using the thematic analysis technique in three pre-established registration units: (i) skills and abilities; (ii) professional profile; and (iii) curricular structure. From the analysis of the pedagogical projects, two analytical categories emerged: discussion about aging and training for health care of the elderly. The research result was that the discussion about the thematic of the aging in the process of formation of human resources in health is still insipient. There is a clear necessity to prepare people to provide adequate attention to the elderly population, as well as to formulate and manage public policies for the mentioned population that benefits from Health Unic System (SUS) Keywords: Aging; Health of the Elderly; Human Resources in Health; Health education; Primary Health Care.

scholarly journals An attempt to optimize human resources allocation based on spatial diversity of the first wave of COVID–19 in Poland

E-methodology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 100-122
Author(s):  
ANDRZEJ JARYNOWSKI ◽  
MONIKA WÓJTA-KEMPA ◽  
ŁUKASZ KRZOWSKI
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Spatial Clustering ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Spatial Diversity ◽  
Arrival Times ◽  
Infection Dynamics ◽  
Socio Economic Variables ◽  
General Mobility ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Second Wave

Aim. Our task was to examine the relationship between the SARS–CoV–2 arrival and the number of confi rmed COVID–19 cases in the fi rst wave (period from March 4 to May 22, 2020 (unoffi cial data)), and socio–economic variables at the powiat (county) level.Methods. We were using simple statistical techniques such as data visualisation, correlation analysis, spatial clustering and multiple linear regression.Results. We showed that immigration and the logarithm of general mobility was the best predictor of SARS–CoV–2 arrival times, while emigration, industrialisation and air quality explain most of the size of the epidemic in poviats. On the other hand, infection dynamics is driven to a lesser extent by previously postulated variables such as population size and density, income or the size of the elderly population.Conclusions. Our analyses could support Polish authorities in preparation for the second wave of infections and optimal management of resources as we have provided a proposition of optimal distribution of human resources between poviats. Although this isa retrospective analysis of the initial phase of the epidemic, similar patterns could repeat in case of new variants of SARS–CoV–2 or new respiratory disease for immunologically naive populations.

scholarly journals Development and Dissemination of Nursing Robots and Support Systems for Welfare Sites

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 713-718
Author(s):  
Yuji Higashi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Nursing Care ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Care Service ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Care Robots

The Japanese population is rapidly aging, with fewer proportion of children, and its production-age population has decreased correspondingly, with a resulting shortage in nursing-care service providers. To cope with this situation, the Japanese government has focused on developing and deploying nursing-care robots to compensate for the shortage of human resources. As most nursing-care services are intended for the elderly and disabled, they are traditionally considered as human services. To implement nursing-care robots on a large scale, numerous approaches and measures have been considered, such as modeling the approaches to effectively use nursing-care robots in nursing-care fields, rewarding highly useful nursing-care robots with greater nursing-care compensations, and responding to consultations at nursing-care sites by building a platform to develop, demonstrate, and deploy nursing-care robots. However, nursing-care services using robots are still not popular because of prevailing anxieties about and resistance to such technologies; therefore, the promotion of nursing-care services using robot technologies remains a challenge. Presently, a system capable of supporting not only a single nursing-care scenario but also a series of nursing-care operations is highly desired. In the future, nursing-care services have to be made more rewarding using robots, for which it is vitally important to provide support in the form of evidence-based, scientific, and effective nursing-care services.

scholarly journals Improving Child Nutritional Status in Order to Fill the Demographic Dividend in East Java Province, Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 120
Author(s):  
Lutfi Agus Salim
Keyword(s):  
Nutritional Status ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Nutritional Conditions ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Nutritional Status Of Children ◽  
The Impact

All Indonesian children are national assets where the future of the nation depends on their quality. East Java Province experienced a demographic bonus period and the peak occurred in 2019 and a third of the population of East Java were children aged 0-17 years. Now the government of East Java Province has implemented five strategies in dealing with demographic bonuses, namely improving the quality of youth human resources, creating quality human resources, placing the elderly population as assets, improving health efforts, and economic empowerment. In the strategy of increasing health efforts, it is necessary to evaluate the nutritional status of children and toddlers. Improving the nutritional status of the community is one of the efforts that has a significant impact and is one of the determining factors for improving the quality of human resources. At the individual level, nutritional conditions are influenced by nutritional intake and related infectious diseases. The first two years of life is a critical period, if there are nutritional disorders in this period, the impact is permanent.

scholarly journals LANSIA ANGGOTA KELOMPOK BINA KELUARGA LANSIA (BKL) ADALAH SEBUAH ASET (POTENSI) BAGI PEMBANGUNAN DI MASYARAKAT RW 04 PANCORAN, JAKARTA SELATAN

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juli Yanto ◽  
Wisni Bantarti
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Age Group ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Health Budget ◽  
The Family

<span>This research depict a new paradigm of elderly. All this time, the elderly have been thouht as an unproductive age group, dependent to the family, consumptive, used up of the health budget, and useless jugment in the community. However, the existing of the BKL IMPALA group in the community indicates that the elderly in the BKL IMPALA group as an asset or potential human resources to participate in the development of RW 04 Pancoran, and they are not family’s or development’s burden. The result of this research that the elderly have been health, and active in every BKL IMPALA’s or community’s activity. Their activities have been shown in every activity that held by BKL IMPALA and they are to become motivator in every activity. They always give an very good idea to the RW 04 development. For BKL IMPALA group, it is better to keep giving opportunity to the elderly to be active in the all activities in the community. For further research can be done by focusing on how the elderly that are an asset for the development can generate the good values or wisdoms to the youth as an further generation in RW 04 Pancoran, South Jakarta.</span>

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