AN INSIGHT INTO A DISAPPEARED MENTAL FORAMEN IN AN EDENTULOUS OLD AGE MANDIBLE

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (04) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Mental Foramen ◽  
Insight Into

Game Design for Older Adults

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie A. Brown ◽  
Bob De Schutter
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Game Design ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Game Player ◽  
Multiple Variables ◽  
Aging Adult ◽  
Aging Adults ◽  
Insight Into

Play is a lifelong construct that is individually defined and is influenced by multiple variables that affect how play is interpreted and experienced in old age. This study highlights the significance of using a life course perspective to explore how play is shaped and reflected through digital gameplay and preferences as a game player ages. Using grounded theory methodology, 51 participants (age 43 - 77) were interviewed individually. The resulting transcripts were coded to identify emergent themes. The findings demonstrate 1) how play changes throughout the lifespan, 2) how play preferences established in childhood influence digital gameplay for aging adults, and 3) how aging adult gamers aspire to continue gaming as they grow older. Collectively, these themes provide insight into the aspects that need to be taken into account when designing games for aging gamer populations.

“the agitation of the autobiographical”: National Politics and Aesthetic Autonomy in Philip Roth's Exit Ghost

2012 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 637-658
Author(s):  
ANDY CONNOLLY
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
National Politics ◽  
Presidential Election Of 2004 ◽  
Interesting Insight ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Aesthetic Autonomy ◽  
Insight Into

Through a close reading of Exit Ghost, this paper examines in a fresh manner the conflicts between notions of authorial context and autonomous literary creativity that dominate not just this novel, but all of Roth's works. In particular, I will look at how Exit Ghost reprises the antagonism and confusion that has existed between disinterested notions of authorial self-effacement and forms of autobiographical self-exposure within Zuckerman's (and Roth's) writing. By exploring how the fraught relationship between Zuckerman's private self and his publicly accessible body of fiction has been closely tied to his more youthful erotic adventures in earlier novels, I will discuss in detail the significance of the eviscerating impact of old age and impotence that he endures in Exit Ghost. In addition, I will discuss these complex issues of desire and authorship in the context of Roth's creative treatment of the Bush/Kerry Presidential election of 2004 in Exit Ghost. I will look at how the presence, albeit marginal, of such large-scale political events in this novel provides an interesting insight into the tangled intersection between literature and the raw “facts” of American history in Roth's fiction.

scholarly journals ‘A journal of my feelings, mind & Body’: Narratives of Ageing in the Life Writing of Mary Berry (1763–1852)

Romanticism ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-302
Author(s):  
Amy Culley
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Romantic Period ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Critical Reflections

This article contributes to studies of gender and old age in the Romantic period through an exploration of the life writing of the biographer and historian, Mary Berry (1763–1852). In her manuscript journal, Berry provides a self-conscious and intimate commentary on the experience of ageing, mixing chronological, personal, cultural, and physical definitions. Yet this account of her feelings, mind, and body is radically reshaped for a Victorian readership in the posthumously published work of 1865. Beyond the journal, Berry's correspondence provides insight into intragenerational sociability through the exchanges of a network of older letter-writers. The theme of ageing also manifests in her biographical works, in which she refuses to treat old age as an epilogue to a life and complements the critical reflections presented in the journal. Read in dialogue, these texts therefore provide valuable perspectives on old age, gender, and sociability and establish age as an important category within studies of life writing.

scholarly journals Mouse Models of Alzheimer’s Dementia: Current Concepts and New Trends

Endocrinology ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 149 (12) ◽  
pp. 5952-5957 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Torres-Aleman
Keyword(s):  
Animal Models ◽  
Transgenic Mouse ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Mouse Models ◽  
Alzheimer’S Dementia ◽  
Transgenic Mouse Models ◽  
Metabolic Disturbances ◽  
Alzheimer's Dementia ◽  
Igf I ◽  
Insight Into

It is lay knowledge now that Alzheimer’s dementia (AD) is one of the most devastating diseases afflicting our societies. A major thrust in search for a cure has relied in the development of animal models of the disease. Thanks to progress in the genetics of the rare inherited forms of AD, various transgenic mouse models harboring human mutated proteins were developed, yielding very significant advancements in the understanding of pathological pathways. Although these models led to testing many different new therapies, none of the preclinical successes have translated yet into much needed therapeutic improvements. Further insight into the metabolic disturbances that are probably associated with the onset of the disease may also rely on new animal models of AD involving insulin/IGF-I signaling that could mimic the far most common sporadic forms of AD associated with old age. Combination of models of familial AD that develop severe amyloidosis with those displaying defects in insulin/IGF-I signaling may help clarify the link between putative initial metabolic disturbances and mechanisms of pathological progression.

scholarly journals Myten om eldrebølgen

2018 ◽  
pp. 75-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
The Public ◽  
Demographic Challenges ◽  
The World ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Over Time

Title: The myth of the “Elder Boom”. Summary: The ageing population represents today one of the most central demographic challenges in many countries of the world, including Norway. In the public debate about the ageing population, the metaphor “Elder Boom” is increasingly being used. This article gives insight into the discussion in Norway and shows that the metaphor “Elder Boom” does not represent a constructive contribution to the ageing-population debate. The article provides arguments against two implications of the “Boom” metaphor: that ageing people are unwanted in society, and that older people represent a huge and increasing amount of welfare dependency. It shows how society over time has strived to control diseases (such as tuberculosis) in order to increase life expectancy. Society does, in fact, see old age as one of its major achievements, not as a problem as implied in the “Elder Boom” metaphor. The article also demonstrates how social policies implemented in the elderly-care sector in Norway have increasingly reduced services to elderly people while increasing allocation to younger people still of working age. By pointing out these changes in old age and elderly care over time, the article is a contribution to put an end to the myth of an “Elder Boom”. Overall, it contributes to the understanding of how this myth, bolstered by the Western world’s ideal of (welfare) independence, both stigmatizes and misconstrues elderly people’s dependency on the welfare state, which is in fact decreasing for various reasons.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Newspaper Texts with a View to Studying the "First" Old People’s Homes

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-183
Author(s):  
Ljubica Milosavljević
Keyword(s):  
Social Issue ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Old Age ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Old People's Homes

Newspaper texts published in the period between the end of World War II and the late 1950s in the Belgrade dailies Borba and Politika have been analyzed for the purpose of studying the process of how old age, as a social issue, has repeatedly "appeared" and "disappeared" from the public eye. These texts illustrate one of the fundamental tenets of constructionism that leads to reality perceived as, and provide insight into the reasons that this social problem, which dates back to the emergence of a burgeois civil society in 19th century Serbia, was perceived in the period studied as just constructed. In this way, it is possible to explain how before becomes after, and why newspapers refer to an old people’s home built no earlier than 1959 as the "first" home of its kind in Belgrade.

scholarly journals Sue Westwood (ed.) (2019). Ageing, Diversity and Equality: Social Justice Perspectives. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 376 pp. ISBN: 978-0-415-78669-0 (hardback)

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-157
Author(s):  
Rosita Dissels ◽  
Ada Lui Gallassi
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Older Population ◽  
Social Gerontology ◽  
Long Term Conditions ◽  
Insight Into

This edited collection brings a comprehensive insight into inequality and diversity of ageing, exploring the concept of social justice in gender; sexualities; culture, ethnicity and religion; disabilities, long-term conditions and care; and spatiality. The understanding of ageing diversity in social gerontology scholarship is underdeveloped and information about minority groups in the older population is often placed in retrofitted sections. Therefore, the aim of this book is to make an important contribution to fill this gap. It consists of five parts, in which inequalities associated with ageing and diversity are centred within Nancy Fraser’s theory of social justice (2013). In Chapter 1, Sue Westwood, the editor of this volume, introduces the book and presents a deeper notion of the concept of intersectionality in the field of socio-gerontology. She recognizes the importance to employ this concept, which refers to intertwined inequality in people’s experiences of disadvantage and discrimination, in order to understand the heterogeneity and diversity of ageing, enabling to clarify the complexity of inequality in old age.

Feminization of Old Age and Experiences of Subalternity

2018 ◽  
pp. 77-87
Author(s):  
Smita Verma
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
First Century ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Demographic Feature ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Aging Women ◽  
Aging World ◽  
Insight Into

The demographic feature of twenty-first century has been the rise of the aged population, making them socially visible. However, the concern is that an aging world is also a feminized world. But this transition does not hold a very vivid future as the elderly women are the most vulnerable section of the population. They make up for the majority of the poor due to scarce access to education, property, and employment opportunities. Widowhood often leaves them impoverished and victims of abuse. Until recently, aging women have not been considered a subject requiring serious attention in India. Most of the studies on old age have adopted a gender-neutral approach to the problems of ageing. It is a paradox that the feminist movement has marginally addressed this issue even though gender along with social, economic, and political factors has a profound impact on how people age, thus making aging a gendered experience. The question remains why aging has not been taken up as a feminist issue in India. This chapter gives insight into the reasons for their vulnerability.

scholarly journals Research, Clinical, and Sociological Aspects of Autism

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Whiteley ◽  
Kevin Carr ◽  
Paul Shattock
Keyword(s):  
Early Diagnosis ◽  
Diagnostic Criteria ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Research Focus ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
To Come ◽  
Diagnostic Changes ◽  
Insight Into

The concept of autism continues to evolve. Not only have the central diagnostic criteria that define autism evolved but understanding of the label and how autism is viewed in research, clinical and sociological terms has also changed. Several key issues have emerged in relation to research, clinical and sociological aspects of autism. Shifts in research focus to encompass the massive heterogeneity covered under the label and appreciation that autism rarely exists in a diagnostic vacuum have brought about new questions and challenges. Diagnostic changes, increasing moves towards early diagnosis and intervention, and a greater appreciation of autism in girls and women and into adulthood and old age have similarly impacted on autism in the clinic. Discussions about autism in socio-political terms have also increased, as exemplified by the rise of ideas such as neurodiversity and an increasingly vocal dialogue with those diagnosed on the autism spectrum. Such changes are to be welcomed, but at the same time bring with them new challenges. Those changes also offer an insight into what might be further to come for the label of autism.

scholarly journals The course of depression in late life: a longitudinal perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro de la Torre-Luque ◽  
Jose Luis Ayuso-Mateos
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Late Life ◽  
Late Life Depression ◽  
Symptom Trajectories ◽  
Old Age Depression ◽  
Subclinical Symptoms ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Course Of Depression

Abstract Depression in old age deserves special attention in view of the fact of progressive population ageing, because of the way in which depression and risk factors interact in this period of life and the particularly negative impact of late-life depression on health and quality of life. This editorial aims to provide some insight into longitudinal aspects of depression in old age. Depression may follow varying trajectories (e.g. episode emergence, recurrence) across the lifespan. Late-life depression is not an exception. A symptom-based approach is presented as an appropriate research method to study the predictors and course of affective syndromes in old age. Findings from our studies on depressive symptom trajectories in old age revealed that participants with a course of unremitting elevated symptoms showed the highest levels of loneliness across the trajectory groups and that participants with subclinical symptoms also showed higher levels of loneliness than their counterparts with a minimal-symptom course trajectory. This highlights the need to address loneliness as a way of dealing with depression in old age.

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