جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « Elderly » در نشریات گروه « علوم اجتماعی »

Structural and value changes in the society had strong impacts on internal relations of the family including the relations with the elderly within the family. Considering the ever-increasing growth of the elderly population, paying attention to their quality of life (including exclusion) is one of the basic factors in their social health. This paper aims at describing and interpreting the elderly experiences of exclusion in family relationships. As far as research method is concerned, as a qualitative research the paper has adopted descriptive phenomenology method. Successively, targeted sampling method with maximum variation strategy has been used for selecting 12 elderly men and women of 60 years and older in Karaj city. They are interviewed according to semi-structured in-depth interview technique; and the interviews were analyzed by Colaizzi strategy.As a result, exclusion was understood as four emerging themes including "feeling of being remove", "loneliness and lack of social embededness", "living with age stigma" and "suffering and fear of being burdened". The research results emphasized on the the comprehensive essence of the experience of exclusion of the elderly in family relationships. It shows that aging and reproduction of exclusion are related, and indicates that the exclusion of the elderly is a totality with a set of overlapping elements and dialectical and fluid relationships, in which exclusion in one dimension, causes exclusion in other dimensions as well.

The increasing number and changing profile of the elderly population in Iran require identifying the factors that influence their health status. This paper aims to study the social, demographic and economic characteristics that affect the physical and mental health of the elderly living in Khorramabad city, Iran. 

Data were obtained from a cross-sectional survey of 379 elderly people aged 60 and over living in Khorramabad. A survey questionnaire and a standard quality of life questionnaire (WHOQOL-SF36, 26) were used to collect the required information. 

The mean index of physical health was 29.27 and the mean index of mental health was 22.12. The most common diseases among elderly people were arthritis and cardiovascular diseases. Education, age, number of children, and gender were factors that could affect the health status of the elderly. Findings show that with the increase in the number of children, the level of physical health of the elderly decreases, but their mental health increases. In fact, children are still considered as one of the sources of familial support in old age. Physical and mental health also affect each other. Having a better health level in either dimension improves the health status in the other dimension. 

The experiences of aging are different for different social groups due to various factors affecting the health status of the elderly. From a policy-making perspective, it is necessary to adopt an individual-centered approach to understand the situation of the elderly and maximize opportunities throughout the life cycle to achieve healthy aging. Key Message: Population projections show that following the age-structural transition of Iran's population, the share of elderly people in the population will increase in the coming years. The elderly people differ from the rest of society in various socio-economic and health aspects (including their economic status, marital status, disease patterns, and the need for health care). Therefore, it is necessary to ensure a good quality of life for the elderly with a special focus on their health status and social care in the long-term social policies of the country.

This study was conducted to determine compassion therapy based on mindfulness of affective capital in elderly women. The current research is of an applied type, which was conducted semi-experimental with a pre-test, post-test, follow-up, and control group in 2019. The statistical population included all elderly women 60 to 75 in Tehran (mean age: 64.74). Among the statistical population, 36 elderly women were invited to participate in this research using the available sampling with the necessary criteria. Among the recruited people, 36 agreed and were randomly and equally placed in two experimental and control groups. Due to the exclusion of sample people during the research (such as lack of interest in continuing participation), 32 elderly women were included until the end of the study. The intervention group received mindfulness-based compassion therapy for eight weeks and one weekly session. Meanwhile, the control group did not receive any intervention. Elderly women completed the affective capital questionnaire to evaluate the dependent variable in the pre-test, post-test, and intervention follow-up periods. Levene's test, Mauchly's sphericity test, Bonferroni Test, and Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance were used to analyze the data. The results showed that the mean of affective capital of the intervention group improved after mindfulness training. Also, the mean of affective capital between the intervention and control groups was significantly different (p<0.05). This intervention showed new horizons in psychological interventions and can also be used to improve affective capital of elderly women.

The influence of the media on all aspects of life is not about anyone. It is one of the cornerstones of aging in all societies. The elderly also has features that differentiate them from others and require special media plans that are specific to the elderly. A superficial look at media programs is a vacuum of attention from the media to the elderly, and perhaps if it is said that the program can not be seen as unnecessary. To validate this claim, there are two research methods 1- Content analysis of the media; 2- An opinion poll about the media satisfaction of the elderly. Given that today's social media is no longer broadcast media, it's not possible to analyze their content, and it can not be determined that this type of media has an impact on the elderly through content analysis, and therefore the opinion polls of the elderly have priority. The purpose of this study was to assess the satisfaction of the elderly with the media. For this descriptive cross-sectional study, a questionnaire was used and the statistical population of this nursing home of Ebrahim Abad, Arak, was selected with 121 people, all of which were considered, but of this number Only 65 completed questionnaires have been completed, and the rest have not been collaborating with Ferretti and Disease. The validity of this information was 0.71 based on Cronbach's alpha, which confirmed the validity of these statistics. Observations and findings indicate that there is only a TV in this nursery that is lit up at a specific time and other media are available to one or two people. Therefore, the findings of this study are only true for the image of the Islamic Republic of Iran. To measure the satisfaction of the elderly from indicators 1 - Life expectancy 2 - Forgetting hardship 3 - Escaping from yourself 4 - Joy and joy 5 - Encouraging exercise 6 - Communication with others 7 - Participation and 8 - Good news, used to be the worst encouragement It was a sport that showed very little satisfaction, and the funny programs were the highest, which is still in normal condition, which is negatively skewed by eliminating the middle class. The indexes are the expectations of the media based on the research literature, which is based on the findings of the research, the average satisfaction of the elderly in the 5-degree Likert level; life expectancy 2.37 oblivion of hardship 2.63 escape from itself 2.45 joy and joy 2.68 encouragement of sports 1.55 communication With others 2.55 Participation 2.44 The good news is 2.32, none of which has a positive skewnery of close to 5, and is close to 2.5, which if they are eliminated moderately or considerably, they will all be negatively skewed. In total, the average media satisfaction of 2.37 out of 5 is indicative of the rejection of the descriptive hypothesis of this study entitled "Elderly Satisfying Media Plans".

The status and care of the elderly are now one of the most critical issues in society. The goal of this study was to explore the attitudes of women in Shiraz City towards elderly care and also the generational disparity between these attitudes. The statistical population of this study included women 20-55 years old in Shiraz which is grouped into two generations of 20-34 years and 35-55 years old. The respondents including 384 females were selected through stratified sampling. Data were collected using a questionnaire and both descriptive and inferential statistics were analyzed using the SPSS. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient was computed to check the validity of the research scales (attitudes towards the elderly, attitude towards caring for the elderly, religiosity, and, relationships within the family). The findings revealed that there is a significant difference in the attitude of two generations of women towards caring for the elderly and that people belonging to the younger generation have a more positive attitude towards elderly care. Attitudes towards aging, supportive family relationships, being a householder, family size, and age were significant variables determining attitudes towards caring for the elderly.

With the rise of social and cultural changes in societies, the quality of life of the elderly as a multifaceted structure has become of interest to researchers and scholars. The purpose of this study is to design a model on the quality of life's components for the elderly based on social changes in Iran. 

Method and Data: 

The research method used in this study is meta-synthesis. In the present paper, 21 published articles between 2003-2021 were selected for inclusion in the analysis. 

We designed a model on the quality of life components for the elderly in Iran which includes two objective and subjective dimensions. Our designed model includes two categories and eleven subcategories. Results of analysis show that the researchers identified 11 concepts and the experts identified 10 concepts, with 8 concepts in common for both cases. 

The objective dimension of the quality of life of the elderly includes the components of physical function, body pains, general health, physical role and economic ability. The components of the subjective dimension of quality of life of the elderly include vitality, mental health, emotions, sexual satisfaction, life satisfaction and quality of sleep. The designed model was validated based on the identification of quality of life's components. 

Key Message: 

In the coming years, the elderly population in Iran is increasing. Therefore, policymaking and macro planning regarding the quality of life of the elderly should lead to its improvement.

The population of the elderly in Iran is on the rise and the study of the health and disease status of these citizens indicates that they suffer from noncommunicable and chronic diseases which makes health-oriented preventive measures indispensable .This study is conducted to considerr the importance of health-oriented practices such as public sports in this age group and with the aim of investigating gender differences between participation in public sports and quality of life of the elders in Tehran. elders cover 7.8% of the total population in Tehran. In this survey, 400 old men and women were selected as the sample size. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire. The samples were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling from 22 districts of Tehran. The results show that the quality of life  index of these two sexes participating in public sports is moderate, although the percentage of women with lower quality of life is higher than men and the percentage of men with higher quality of life is higher.A study of gender differences in the relationship between different dimensions of quality of life variable with the participation of the elderly in public sports shows that between the two variables dimension of social relationship satisfaction and role status (below quality of life index) with the variable of participation in public sports between women and. There is no correspondence between men and women participating in public sports; however, the qualities of life of the elderly of both sexes from all aspects show a strong relationship with participation in public sports.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the morning exercise of mental health and some factors of physical fitness of citizens of Marand city.

68 subjects were randomly divided into two experimental groups (n = 34) and a control group (n = 34). The experimental group was trained for 3 months and 4 sessions per week for 45 to 60 minutes of morning exercise under the careful review of the research. To assess mental health, Goldberg and Hiller (1979) 28-item general health questionnaire, and to measure the flexibility of the session and performance test, to measure the standing balance of the standing test, to measure the dynamic balance of the upper and lower steps, and To measure the strength of the affected limb, the number of sitting and getting up from the chair in 30 seconds was used as a research tool. Finally, the data collected using paired t-test were compared experimentally to compare pre-test post-test and for differences between independent t-test groups at a significant level of 0.05, so it was analyzed.. The results show that the trial of manufacturing companies in morning exercise in all research variables is currently usually performed better than others in practice (P <0.05). According to the findings of this study, it seems that morning exercise can be used as a useful way to increase physical fitness and mental health of other elderly people

This article concerns with elderly remarriage. Its aim is to understand the viewpoint of widowed and remarried elderly about remarriage using an interpretative approach. This study has been conducted in the city of Saghez in Iranian Kurdistan. It applies a qualitative ethnographic approach. Using purposive sampling, 20 elderly women and men (widow/remarried) were selected and interviewed in depth. The interview texts were analyzed based on the conventional qualitative content analysis method. The findings suggest that there is a "dual gendered attitude" among the elderly women and men toward remarriage. Both "remaining widow" and "remarrying" later in life occur willingly and unwillingly. In some cases, they "have to" remain widow and in other cases marry again. Elderly remarriage in this city encounters different social and economic obstacles. However, the findings show that there are "forerunners" in elderly remarriage. Challenged with numerous family and social norms, this demand tries to open a room for elderly remarriage in the public sphere. The findings of this study can be adopted to formulate micro- and macro-level policies for elderly population.

Today, one of the most important issues in the study of aging is the review of the coverage of the elderly by supportive institutions. With the increase in the number of elderly people in the country, the need to meet the special needs of this population group is a priority in policy-making and planning.The purpose of this study is to compare and review the coverage of the elderly under the auspices of the Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation and the Welfare Organization, as two major organizations supporting the poor elderly in society. The main question that we are looking for an answer in this study is whether, as the number of elderly people in the country has increased, the coverage of official organizations supporting them has increased or not; And what has been the status of this coverage at the national and provincial levels in recent years? The results of this study show that during the period 1394 to 1397, the coverage of these two organizations of the elderly in the country has decreased from 33.7% to 27.4%. This means that the level of support in these two organizations has been declining in proportion to the growth of the elderly population. The highest amount of support coverage of the two mentioned institutions for the elderly was related to Sistan and Baluchestan, Ilam, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad provinces and the lowest amount was related to Tehran, Alborz and Isfahan provinces.

In today's world, health has become an important issue in social and demographic studies. The main purpose of this paper is to identify the indigenous-immigrant differences in the health-oriented lifestyle pattern of the elderly in Qarchak city, 2020. The research method is survey and the data were collected from 383 elderly people aged 60 and older using a researcher-made questionnaire technique. The results showed that 16.7 % of the natives and 18.4 % of the immigrants have a low health-oriented lifestyle. Overall, the majority of Indigenous people (69.5%) and immigrants (66.5%) have a moderately healthy elderly lifestyle. According to the results of bivariate analysis, men have a higher health-oriented lifestyle compared to women. Elderly people with higher education and those with a spouse has a higher health-oriented life style. There is a statistically significant difference between leisure activities, smoking and nutrition among Iranian and Afghan seniors.The results of multivariate analysis showed that the citizenship does not have a significant effect on the health-oriented lifestyle of the elderly by controlling other demographic and contextual variables. But the years of education, gender and number of children of the elderly have a positive effect on health-oriented lifestyle, respectively.The health-oriented lifestyle of the elderly depend to the social, cultural and economic conditions regardless of nationality.

Music therapy is the use of musical skills to improve physical, mental function and emotional-social reactions, to help develop motor, academic, communication, social and emotional abilities, and ultimately to improve the quality of life. The aim of this study was to investigate the difference in quality of life of the elderly aged 60 years and older living in 60 nursing homes in the two modes of receiving and not receiving inactive music therapy. The statistical population was 1800 people; The calculated sample size was calculated using Cochran's formula of 318 people and the questionnaires were distributed using simple cluster and random sampling method. Data collection tool is a standard 26-item quality of life questionnaire based on the Likert scale. The research method is methodologically quantitative and comparative. Findings indicate that the hypotheses about the difference in quality of life (Sig = 0.000), environmental health (Sig = 0.001), social relations (Sig = 0.011), physical health (Sig = 0.048), Mental health (Sig = 0.000) of the elderly has been confirmed in terms of receiving and not receiving inactive music therapy and the quality of life of elderly men is better than elderly women. Numerous music therapies such as playing music, singing, etc. can be taken to improve the physical and mental performance of the elderly to help increase their life expectancy and reduce mental illness.

Aging naturally causes multidimensional physical, psychological and social changes in individuals. At the same time, the elderly are more vulnerable in the area of physical and mental health, for whom there is a high risk of Covid19 disease. The aim of this study is to study the life experience of old people about how they deal with the condition of Corona virus. The study population was those who went to day care centers for the elderly in Yazd. In this study, unstructured interviews were conducted with 12 elderly people and studied by phenomenological method. to answer to two research questions examining the living experience of the elderly from the epidemic conditions and methods of dealing with it, and with the Colaizzi seven-step analysis method, the elderly reported experiences such as individual and interpersonal concerns and positive and negative consequences of epidemic conditions for intrapersonal and interpersonal changes as the answer of first question. “various strategies in four levels of spiritual and religious measures, individual health-oriented measures, dealing with interpersonal conditions and dealing with peripheral facilities against Corona virus pandemic were adopted in order to pass the harmful condition “ participants answered. Despite what was thought and emphasized by the media about the vulnerability of the elderly to the epidemic, the results of the study showed that the elderly did not view this event as an unresolved crisis due to their maturity and sufficient experience and passed it in a consistent and successful manner.

According to UN statistics, it is estimated that the number of elderly people will be more than double by the year 2050 and it would increase from 841 million to 2 billion. One of the most important issues, like other periods of life in old age, is lifestyle. In this period of life people would use media content like other ages and even more as they have more free time. Using media could help them to find and choose better lifestyle and information . In aging time the changes in media coverage could open new window for elderly, and help them to achieve their goals. The researcher used the existing internal standard model for the elderly lifestyle that includes 5 dimensions of prevention, physical activity, recreation, entertainment and sports, healthy eating, stress management and social and interpersonal relationships. In this study, a descriptive correlational and descriptive survey strategy was used. The statistical population is all citizens of Tehran who are at least 60 years old. The results showed that the media play a role in the dimensions of prevention, healthy nutrition, and social and interpersonal relationships. However, they did not have a significant effect on physical activity, recreational, entertainment, sport and stress management.

Health is known as a lifestyle and prevention of disease treatment that is affected by the economic, social, political, environmental, and cultural conditions of individuals. Studies show that ethnicities are in different socio-economic conditions that can affect their health. In the present study, data were collected from the survey technique through a structured questionnaire from people aged 60 and over in Urmia, which included 386 elderly Kurds and Turks (226 Turks and 161 Kurds). Data analysis showed that the mean and standard deviation for the nine studied dimensions were 17.83 and 2.18 for Turkish ethnicity and 18.48 and 2.11 for Kurdish ethnicity with a significance level of 0.004, respectively. The results of multivariate analysis showed that ethnicity without control of demographic and economic variables has a positive effect of 0.145 on the lifestyle of the elderly, which increases to 0.182 by controlling this variable  and monthly income and ethnicity (being Kurdish) have the most positive and significant effect on it. Findings showed that socio-demographic and economic conditions make a significant difference in the healthy lifestyle of the two ethnicities. The Kurdish elders have a healthier lifestyle than the Turkish elders, which can indicate a better economic situation of the Kurds compared to the Turks at Urmia.

Sport for all is considered one of the human development indexes in society as it promotes life expectancy through residents’ well-being. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), sport for all is defined as activities available for all individuals with the minimum cost and promote physical and mental health in the community. Elderly are considered among the target groups to advance sport for all. Considering that elderly comprise 6% of total population in Iran, developing the sport for all for this group is a requirement. The present study aims to investigate the relationship between participation in sport for all and quality of life for sixty-year-old men and women in Tehran, using field research and surveys. Here, we stablished a sample size of 400 for both men and women. The data were gathered by a combined questionnaire, i.e. comprised from author’s own made questions and those from a standard questionnaire. Multi-stage clustering method was employed for sampling from the 22 different districts of Tehran, based on the economic information of households and their level of socioeconomic status in these regions. The results of this study confirm the correlation between participation in sport for all variables of mental health, physical health, well-being and esteem. Moreover, elderly men and women's athletic self-efficacy and health-oriented lifestyle showed a correlation with the quality of life of the elderly.

This study aims to investigate the relationship between the social capital and the quality of life among the elderly living at homes and those living at sanatoriums in Tehran. To achieve this aim, the survey method and the questionnaire tool were used to select and study 384 elderly people in Tehran. The findings show that the quality of life of the elderly living at homes is better than those staying in nursing institutions. There is also a significant association between the type of housing of the elderly and their social capital; those living at homes have higher social capital and a better quality of life than those living at sanatoriums. The results also show that there are significant associations between social capital and its constituent dimensions and the quality of life of the elderly. The results of multivariate analysis showed that after controlling for all  the variables, the type of housing still has a strong and significant impact on the quality of life of both elderly groups. However, this effect is stronger for the elderly living at homes than those staying in nursing homes. The variables of social participation, type of housing, social trust and social support have the greatest impact on the quality of life of the elderly, respectively

The present study investigates the meaningful factors in the life of the elderly according to the social interpretation approach. The data of this study were obtained through using in-depth interviews with purposeful sampling method and theoretical saturation criterion with 21 Elderly 68 to 81 years old in Tehran 21 district (Tehransar) and the information obtained from the interviews was coded (open and centered) and the concepts and categories were analyzed. Findings using the grounded theory approach consist of 10 categories.  The central theme of this research is divergence that in general is covered all other categories. According to the core category, two of the findings of the study are convergence and divergence as if the most important research achievement is the role of divergence (family and social) in the meaninglessness of life and the role of empathy (family and social) in the meaning of life. Factors such as health or illness, economic status and the fatefulness of the elderly are also factors Which illustrates their approach to life. At the end, the foundational theory presented in the paradigm model of marital maladjustment and divergence with spouse as the most central factor of nonsense in the life of the old men.