Chinese late-life immigrants' loneliness and social isolation in host countries: An integrative review.

Aims And Objective: To synthesise current international empirical evidence on loneliness and social isolation in Chinese late-life immigrants.

Background: Loneliness causes adverse health consequences in Chinese late-life immigrants leading to increased utilisation of often increasingly limited healthcare resources. However, little is known about how Chinese late-life immigrants perceive and experience loneliness and social isolation in their host countries.

Feeling a deep sense of loneliness: Chinese late-life immigrants in New Zealand.

Objectives: To explore Chinese late-life immigrants' perceptions of loneliness and social isolation.

Methods: A qualitative descriptive methodology underpinned this study. In-depth individual interviews were conducted in Mandarin with purposively recruited participants.

Prevalence of Loneliness and Its Association With General and Health-Related Measures of Subjective Well-Being in a Longitudinal Bicultural Cohort of Older Adults in Advanced Age Living in New Zealand: LiLACS NZ.

Objectives: There is evidence that loneliness is detrimental to the subjective well-being of older adults. However, little is known on this topic for the cohort of those in advanced age (80 years or older), which today is the fastest-growing age group in the New Zealand population. We examined the relationships between loneliness and selected subjective well-being outcomes over 5 years.

Influence of Purposeful Activities on Upper Extremity Motor Performance: A Systematic Review.

Following upper extremity injury, exercise-approaches are commonly used to address motor impairments. Occupation-based approaches are also used but less widely promoted and their mechanisms of action not well-understood. Movement performed during purposeful activities and occupations may yield better motor performance than during nonpurposeful tasks.

Strengthening Community: Older Asian Immigrants' Contributions to New Zealand Society.

This study sought to uncover the process through which older Chinese, Indian and Korean immigrants residing in Auckland, New Zealand contribute to, and participate in, local community. There is a paucity of literature addressing the everyday activities of older Asian immigrants living in New Zealand. The few studies that do exist focus solely on one ethnic group with little discussion of how community participation occurs.

Impacts of older people's patient and public involvement in health and social care research: a systematic review.

Background: patient and public involvement (PPI) in research has been linked with numerous beneficial impacts, however, evidence for older people's involvement is limited.

Objectives: to evaluate the impacts of involving older people in health and social care research on older co-researchers, academic researchers, and research processes and outcomes. A secondary aim was to explore critical success factors and future considerations for PPI.

Ethnic and Gender Differences in Preferred Activities among Māori and non-Māori of Advanced age in New Zealand.

This study explored active aging for older Māori and non-Māori by examining their self-nominated important everyday activities. The project formed part of the first wave of a longitudinal cohort study of aging well in New Zealand. Māori aged 80 to 90 and non-Māori aged 85 were recruited.

Integrative review of older adult loneliness and social isolation in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Objective: To conduct an integrative review of empirical studies of loneliness for older people in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Loneliness is a risk factor for older people's poor physical and cognitive health, serious illness and mortality. A national survey showed loneliness rates vary by gender and ethnicity.

Values and ethics in practice-based decision making.

Background: Values are evident in health ethics literature; however, it is seldom clear how they are visible in practice.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to illuminate how values inform occupational therapists' decision making in practice.

Method: Fifteen New Zealand community occupational therapists completed this embedded experimental mixed-methods study.

Narratives in research: story as 'showing' the eminently ordinary experience of ageing.

Aim: To offer a perspective when research narratives about how ageing is lived in everyday life are the primary data.

Methods: A literature search explored the garnering of narratives about everyday life in advanced age in qualitative research. Narrative examples from the authors' research, and supervised student research, are drawn on to illustrate the experiences of ageing when going about an ordinary day.

Community integration after traumatic brain injury: a systematic review of the clinical implications of measurement and service provision for older adults.

Objective: To explore the scope, reliability, and validity of community integration measures for older adults after traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Data Sources: A search of peer-reviewed articles in English from 1990 to April 2011 was conducted using the EBSCO Health and Scopus databases. Search terms included were community integration, traumatic brain injury or TBI, 65 plus or older adults, and assessment.

The lived experience of physically active older prostate cancer survivors on androgen deprivation therapy.

This study sought to explore the lived experiences of physically active prostate cancer survivors on androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), who exercise individually. Three older men (74-88 years old) with prostate cancer, using ADT continuously for at least 12 months and regularly exercising for at least 6 months, participated in this qualitative pilot study, informed by interpretive phenomenology. Data were gathered using individual semi-structured interviews, audio recorded and transcribed verbatim.

Cross-cultural understandings of festival food-related activities for older women in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Eastern Kentucky, USA and Auckland, New Zealand.

This cross-country, cross-cultural study explored the meaning of older women's food-related activities for the annual festivals of Songkran (Thai New Year) in Chiang Mai, Thailand; and Christmas in Richmond, Kentucky, USA; and Auckland, New Zealand. A derived etic method was used. The community-dwelling participants were 33 Thai women, aged 60 and older, and 16 New Zealand and 23 eastern Kentucky women, aged 65 and older.

Doing what's important: valued activities for older New Zealand Māori and non-Māori.

Aim: This project explored the usability of the World Health Organisation, International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) for describing older Māori and non-Māori people's self-nominated important activities.

Method: Within a feasibility-for-cohort study, 112 participants, 33 Māori, aged 75-79 years, and 79 non-Māori, aged 85 years, nominated their three most important activities. Verbatim responses were coded using the ICF classifications and described using non-parametric statistics.

Doing everyday occupations both conceals and reveals the phenomenon of being aged.

Background/aim: The phenomenon of ageing is so commonplace that it is ordinarily taken-for-granted, with little call to question its meaning. Of importance to occupational therapists is the recent appeal to understand older adults' ordinary ways of everyday living. The aim of this interpretive phenomenological study was to understand the meaning of 'being aged' through the everyday experiences of those who are long-lived.