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  • Dynamic linkages of personality and health : the effect of traits and states in predicting health-goal progress

    Creator:
    Choun, Soyoung
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    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,...
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    as people move from mid-life to later life (Hooker, 1992). For older adults in particular, the

  • Perceptions of residential grab bars among community dwelling seniors

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    Thrall, Patti L.
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    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...
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    , 2010). Housing tenure among households headed by older people indicate that 20% are renters and 80

  • Retirement-age migration to and from Oregon : who is still on the Oregon Trail?

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    Gagnier, Cliff R.
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    Oregon, much like the nation, has historically had a paradoxical relationship to migration. Oregon is famous for the Lewis and Clark expedition and the Oregon Trail. It is, and always has been, greatly affected and inspired by interstate migration yet each successive generation has been less than welcoming to further...
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  • Innovativeness and acceptance of retirement housing of faculty pre-retirees at selected Thai universities

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    Buasri, Virajada
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    Changing demographics and lifestyles in Thailand are eroding traditional patterns of family support for the elderly. Caring for the elderly within the family structure is no longer assured. However, the concept of living in retirement housing is unfamiliar to most senior Thai citizens. The purpose of this study was to...
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    areas, were examined. Four types of housing, perceived as new options to Thai people, were considered

  • Goal pursuits and mental health in later life

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    Bolkan, Cory R.
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    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...
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    which goal domains people focus on for optimizing successful outcomes. For example, if older adults

  • Aging in place : a contemporary social phenomenon

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    Lee, Megan
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    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...
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    Older Women Aging in Place in Oregon ………………………………………………… 113 Abstract …………………………………………………………………….114

  • Evaluation of the 2001 pilot Oregon Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program

    Creator:
    Saylor, Kirsten N.
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    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...
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    2001 Pilot Oregon Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program. Abstract Approved: The Senior Farmers

  • Oregon meal programs for the elderly

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    Pritchard, Dorothy Lynn
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    The purposes of this study were to identify, analyze and compare various Oregon meal programs for the elderly. Twenty-one separate meal programs were identified throughout the state by contacting state, county, and local groups concerned with the elderly. A survey was made by questionnaire to obtain basic information about each...
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    Study Although home-delivered and congregate meal programs are only beginning in Oregon, many people

  • Theorizing age and gender in the pursuit of love in late life

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    Levaro, Elizabeth Bayler
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    In this dissertation, I explore how women and men in later life experience the world of dating and the pursuit of new intimate relationships. Although the mortality gap between women and men at older ages is narrowing, as they enter their 70s, 80s, and 90s, there are still at least...
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    ageist stereotypes depicting old people as asexual and earlier research findings that older adults

  • Evaluating balance and strength of older women in exercise programs

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    Dinger, Melanie
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    Falls are a common problem among older adults, including those who are relatively healthy and living independently. Exercise has been recommended as an intervention to reduce falls by slowing and/or reversing age-related declines in balance, strength, and mobility. However, it remains unclear which types or combinations of programs are most...
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    preventing falls in older people living in the community. Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 2(CD007146