Occupational engagement among community dwelling older people: a time-geographic perspective
How older people spend their time in different occupations could contribute to our understanding of everyday life in healthy ageing. This study adopted a time-geographic method and occupational perspective to explore the occupational engagement of community dwelling older people. The term occupation...
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ftunivwollongong:oai:ro.uow.edu.au:ahsri-1296 2023-05-15T17:44:47+02:00 Occupational engagement among community dwelling older people: a time-geographic perspective Nilsson, I Blanchard, Megan Wicks, Alison 2015-01-01T08:00:00Z application/pdf https://ro.uow.edu.au/ahsri/289 https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1296&context=ahsri unknown Research Online https://ro.uow.edu.au/ahsri/289 https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1296&context=ahsri Australian Health Services Research Institute exploring among everyday community dwelling older people time geographic perspective occupational engagement article 2015 ftunivwollongong 2020-02-25T11:15:49Z How older people spend their time in different occupations could contribute to our understanding of everyday life in healthy ageing. This study adopted a time-geographic method and occupational perspective to explore the occupational engagement of community dwelling older people. The term occupational engagement encompasses what people do, where and with whom they spend their time and the perceived level of competence and meaningfulness of their time use. Nineteen volunteers born between 1932 and 1933, living alone in an urban area in northern Sweden and receiving no home care services, completed open time-geographic diaries for 5 days in May 2010. The diary data were analyzed using Daily Life software program. The study revealed the complexity and the diversity of the older people's occupational engagement and that most of their time was spent alone in their home. The older people reported they were very good at doing almost half of the occupations in which they engaged and that their occupations were primarily either very meaningful or meaningful. While some methodological limitations were identified, time-geographic studies of community dwelling older people living independently are considered to have potential to contribute to community and social planning for older people as they can provide interesting insights to older persons' time use and occupational needs. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Sweden University of Wollongong, Australia: Research Online |
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How older people spend their time in different occupations could contribute to our understanding of everyday life in healthy ageing. This study adopted a time-geographic method and occupational perspective to explore the occupational engagement of community dwelling older people. The term occupational engagement encompasses what people do, where and with whom they spend their time and the perceived level of competence and meaningfulness of their time use. Nineteen volunteers born between 1932 and 1933, living alone in an urban area in northern Sweden and receiving no home care services, completed open time-geographic diaries for 5 days in May 2010. The diary data were analyzed using Daily Life software program. The study revealed the complexity and the diversity of the older people's occupational engagement and that most of their time was spent alone in their home. The older people reported they were very good at doing almost half of the occupations in which they engaged and that their occupations were primarily either very meaningful or meaningful. While some methodological limitations were identified, time-geographic studies of community dwelling older people living independently are considered to have potential to contribute to community and social planning for older people as they can provide interesting insights to older persons' time use and occupational needs. |
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Occupational engagement among community dwelling older people: a time-geographic perspective |
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Occupational engagement among community dwelling older people: a time-geographic perspective |
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Occupational engagement among community dwelling older people: a time-geographic perspective |
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Occupational engagement among community dwelling older people: a time-geographic perspective |
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occupational engagement among community dwelling older people: a time-geographic perspective |
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