Narrating future selves: perspectives on ageing from a Scottish cohort born in 1936

In this paper we investigate the perspectives individuals take on their future at a particular chronological age, the late 70s. We seek to provide insights into the diverse ways that older people incorporate narratives about possible future selves into their decision making and planning for the future, and how this supports wellbeing. This paper is based on detailed analysis of qualitative biographical interviews conducted with 33 men and women who were all born in Scotland in 1936.These individuals were chosen because they formed part of a longitudinal cohort study called the ‘6-day sample study’ that was initiated in Scotland in 1947. The material we draw on enables us to examine individuals’ biographical narratives as recounted in a research interview alongside insights into individual capacities and wellbeing derived from more structured quantitative questionnaires. We are interested in the presentation of the ageing self in an ethnographic interview, and how these presentations may complement or conflict with insights from the structured quantitative data collected in the study.

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Gender and the negotiation between older people and their carers in the prevention of falls

Ageing and Society ◽

10.1017/s0144686x03001569 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 24 (1) ◽

pp. 75-94 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

KHIM HORTON ◽

SARA ARBER

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Older People ◽

Family Member ◽

Older Men ◽

Mutual Respect ◽

Men And Women ◽

Older Mothers ◽

Close Relatives ◽

Depth Interviews ◽

Older Men And Women

Little is known about how negotiation between older people and their carers varies according to gender. This paper reports a study of older men and women who have had multiple falls and the actions of their key family members to prevent multiple falls. In-depth interviews were conducted with 35 older people who had had recurrent falls, and separately with the identified key family member. The actions taken by the relatives to prevent future falls were classified as protective, coercive, negotiating, engaging and ‘reflective of mutual respect’. It was found that sons caring for older mothers took only ‘protective’ and ‘coercive’ actions, resulting in mothers having passive and submissive roles. In contrast, the daughters who were caring for their fathers undertook most often ‘engaging’ and some ‘negotiating’ actions, which empowered the fathers in their decision making. Daughters had a ‘peer-like’ relationship with the mothers that they supported and cared for, and undertook primarily ‘negotiating’ as well as ‘engaging’ actions. The two men who cared for older men took no specific actions but maintained mutual respect for each other. The findings demonstrate several ways in which the gender of the dyad members influences the nature of the negotiation between close relatives, and throws light on the factors that influence the autonomy and dependence of older people.

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Associations between variations in the TLR4 gene and incident coronary heart disease (CHD) in middle-aged men and women: Results from the MONICA/KORA Augsburg case-cohort study, 1984–2002

Das Gesundheitswesen ◽

10.1055/s-0030-1266726 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 72 (08/09) ◽

Author(s):

M Karakas ◽

J Baumert ◽

M Müller ◽

N Klopp ◽

B Thorand ◽

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Keyword(s):

Coronary Heart Disease ◽

Cohort Study ◽

Heart Disease ◽

Middle Aged ◽

Incident Coronary Heart Disease ◽

Men And Women ◽

Tlr4 Gene

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Interest of Functional Neuroimaging in Assessing Decision-making Capacity of Older People With Neurocognitive Disorders

Case Medical Research ◽

10.31525/ct1-nct03931148 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Older People ◽

Functional Neuroimaging ◽

Neurocognitive Disorders ◽

Decision Making Capacity

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Faculty Opinions recommendation of Physical activity and inflammatory markers over 10 years: follow-up in men and women from the Whitehall II cohort study.

Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature ◽

10.3410/f.717953911.793459610 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Michel Chonchol ◽

Kristen Jablonski

Keyword(s):

Physical Activity ◽

Cohort Study ◽

Inflammatory Markers ◽

Men And Women

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Faculty Opinions recommendation of Primary prevention with lipid lowering drugs and long term risk of vascular events in older people: population based cohort study.

Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature ◽

10.3410/f.725507033.793507507 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Jerome Fleg

Keyword(s):

Cohort Study ◽

Primary Prevention ◽

Older People ◽

Population Based ◽

Lipid Lowering ◽

Vascular Events ◽

Lipid Lowering Drugs

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Integrating gender in rice research

ORYZA- An International Journal on Rice ◽

10.35709/ory.2019.56.spl.9 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 56 (Special) ◽

pp. 164-168

Author(s):

BN Sadangi ◽

Biswajit Mondal

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Impact Assessment ◽

Farming System ◽

Work Participation ◽

Gender Mainstreaming ◽

Limited Resources ◽

Men And Women ◽

Planning Project ◽

Systematic Understanding ◽

And Gender

Gender mainstreaming in agriculture is new trend to address the inequalities of resources and work participation between men and women for ensuring equity in gender. Though women constitute about half of the total agricultural labour, their access to resources as well as decision making power is limited. Particularly, women in rice-based farming system though undertake hard work, own or share very limited resources and benefits in comparison to other systems. Various needs of women, while undertake research and technologies developed should be addressed appropriately through gender focussed planning, project implementation, monitoring as well as impact assessment. A systematic understanding and capacity building of the planners, researchers, development and extension machineries on innovative mechanism and gender sensitive perspectives would bring socioeconomic upliftment of not only women but the whole society.

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Leading Determinants of Healthy Ageing in Community-Dwelling Middle-Aged Men and Women: A Cohort Study

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3292607 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Xianwen Shang ◽

Wei Wang ◽

Stuart Keel ◽

Jinrong Wu ◽

Mingguang He ◽

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Keyword(s):

Cohort Study ◽

Community Dwelling ◽

Healthy Ageing ◽

Middle Aged ◽

Men And Women

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Other Factors Influencing Religious Vocations

10.1093/oso/9780190878153.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Thu T. Do

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Secondary School ◽

Women Religious ◽

Religious Life ◽

Men And Women ◽

Factors Influencing ◽

Religious Vocation ◽

Devotional Practices ◽

Religious Vocations ◽

Primary And Secondary School

This chapter presents an overview of aspects that may influence women and men religious on their religious vocational decision during their childhood with their family and parish, their attendance of primary and secondary school, their participation in parish life, and their college years. The influential aspects addressed are: attending Mass regularly and devotional practices, having the opportunity to discuss and receive encouragement from others to discern a religious vocation, the witness of men and women religious, and being engaged in youth and voluntary ministry programs. The chapter concludes that while not every individual religious has opportunities to experience these activities in various environments before he or she decides to enter religious life, all the aspects complement one another and have an impact on religious vocational discernment and decision-making.

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