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Creator:: Saylor, Kirsten N.
Abstract:: The Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP), piloted in Oregon in 2001, provided $100 worth of vouchers (aka coupons) to low-income seniors to buy fresh local produce from farmers at farmers' markets and roadside stands. Presented in a political ecology framework, this research integrated the perspectives of beneficiaries and their...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 2001 Pilot Oregon Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program. Abstract Approved: The Senior Farmers

Creator:: Bolkan, Cory R.
Abstract:: Grounded in life span theory, this study explored how personal goals (as measured by possible selves) related to depressive symptoms in older adults. Possible selves represent individuals' ideas of what they would like to become (hoped-for selves) and what they are afraid of becoming (feared selves). Possible selves are also...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: which goal domains people focus on for optimizing successful outcomes. For example, if older adults

Creator:: Lee, Megan
Abstract:: Most aging individuals prefer to remain in a self-determined home environment, and generally aging adults want to remain in the same home or same community. The benefits of remaining in a self-determined private home environment while aging have been established. Because individuals present a diversity of needs, it takes interdisciplinary...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Older Women Aging in Place in Oregon ………………………………………………… 113 Abstract …………………………………………………………………….114

Creator:: Choun, Soyoung
Abstract:: Optimal aging is strongly related to personality factors along with health-behavior habits. Personality has played a key role in understanding the interactions between human behavior and the environment and as a vital predictor in determining health outcomes of individuals. Although previous studies have found links between personality traits and health,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: as people move from mid-life to later life (Hooker, 1992). For older adults in particular, the

Creator:: Jambi, Hanan A.
Abstract:: The purpose of this exploratory study was to develop an instrument to measure perceived food autonomy (PFA) among cognitively alert residents in state licensed Assisted Living (AL) facilities, and to investigate the influence of PFA on food satisfaction, while controlling for functional (physical, social, and psychological) status, general health, and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Nutrition and Food Management presented on September 17, 2003

Creator:: Neumeyer, Rochelle R.
Abstract:: The population in the United States is experiencing a dramatic increase in the number of older adults and this trend will continue with the aging of the baby boomer generation. Many of these older adults want to remain independent in the community, however, when physical or mental health needs do...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , and cataracts are common among many older people (Calkins, 2003). Thus, aging often brings

Creator:: Thrall, Patti L.
Abstract:: Despite the perceived importance of grab bars to facilitate aging-in-place and healthy aging, many community-dwelling older adults do not have them installed. The aim of this study was to investigate predictors of grab bar installation among well-educated community dwelling seniors. Data was collected quantitatively through an electronic survey of Oregon...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , 2010). Housing tenure among households headed by older people indicate that 20% are renters and 80

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