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The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton, Tania Signal, Jenni A. Judd   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Meaning in life: bidirectional relationship with depression, anxiety, and loneliness in a longitudinal cohort of older primary care patients with multimorbidity

BMC Geriatrics
Background Depression, anxiety and loneliness are common among older patients. As a potential psychological buffer against these challenges, meaning in life (MIL) remains underexplored in longitudinal studies within this population.
King Wa Tam, Dexing Zhang, Yiqi Li, Zijun Xu, Qiao Li, Yang Zhao, Lu Niu, Samuel YS Wong   +7 more
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Moderation Effects of Autonomy and Personal Growth on the Association of Sociotropy and Different Types of Loneliness

Social Sciences
Loneliness is one of the most widespread conditions that affect one’s physical and mental health. Loneliness is found in all populations despite age, gender, ethnicity, religion, or socio-economic status.
Olga Strizhitskaya, Inna Murtazina
doaj   +1 more source

‘Hurry Up and Get Me out of Here’: The Experience of People Under 65 Years (Still) Stuck in Aged Care

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, the Australian Government set a target for no‐one under 65 years of age to be living in residential aged care (RAC) by 2025. The numbers of young people in residential aged care (YPIRAC) have significantly declined since the start of the targets.
Elroy Dearn, Kate D'Cruz, Mark Brown, Jacinta Douglas, Dianne Winkler   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Loneliness modulates social threat detection in daily life

Communications Psychology
Loneliness is increasingly recognized not only as a stable trait but also as a dynamic affective process, marked by short-term fluctuations in mood, social perception, and behavior.
Sijing Shao, Emorie D. Beck, Zoe Hawks, Karina Van Bogart, Eileen K. Graham, Anthony D. Ong   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

An investigation of loneliness and related factors among the spouses of personnel deployed to long-term naval missions [PDF]

فصلنامه ابن سینا, 2016
Background: Given the important effects of loneliness on health and it has not been studied precisely in our country among the spouses of personnel deployed to long-term missions, therefore, the current study was done to investigate loneliness and ...
M Amidi Mazaheri, Sh Mirzaman, Z Manouchehri, Z Torabi   +3 more
doaj  

‘Giving Back to Our Community’: The Retention of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Disability Workforce in New South Wales, Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia require culturally responsive services. The Australian government has committed to establishing strategies to increase the size of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disability workforce; however, there is scant research on the factors influencing retention.
J. Gwynn, J. Gilroy, S. Peter, F. Talbot, K. Bulkeley, C. Alcorso, K. Gwynne, B. Rambaldini, A. Haines, M. Lincoln   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Institutional, neighborhood, and life stressors on loneliness among older adults

BMC Public Health
Background Loneliness is a public health epidemic in the United States (US), with older adults being vulnerable to experiencing loneliness. Predictors of loneliness are less understood among racial/ethnic groups of US older adults, and few studies have ...
Kazumi Tsuchiya, Amy Danielle Thierry, Harry Owen Taylor   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Loneliness and all cause mortality in Australian women aged 45 years and older: causal inference analysis of longitudinal data

BMJ Medicine
Objective To examine the causal effects of loneliness on mortality among Australian women aged 45 years and older.Design Causal inference analysis of longitudinal data.Participants A population based sample of Australian women aged 45 years and older (n ...
Ding Ding, Dafna Merom, Ben J Smith, Philip Clare, Neta Hagani   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Research blog: Designing effective loneliness interventions for older adults

In his blog, researcher Dhruv Sharma asks why in this \u27age of connectivity\u27, with so much research already carried out on loneliness interventions, we haven\u27t yet been able to solve the problem of chronic loneliness.
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