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PubMed2005

Introduction: aging education in a global context.

Introduction to a collection of articles on aging education in a global context based on the proceedings of the annual conference of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE). The volume includes a dual focus on (1) issues related to gerontology and geriatric education around the world and (2) issues related to teaching about global and cross-cultural aging. Several of the chapters provide useful information and resources for educators seeking ways to incorporate cross-cultural aging into their courses. The remaining three chapters deal with issues related to aging education in Kenya, Japan and China.

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PubMed2002

Coming to terms: African-Americans' complex ways of coping with life in a nursing home.

Based on qualitative interviews with 14 nursing home residents and 13 caregivers, this article explores how elders adapted to life in a nursing home, and how their caregivers came to embrace nursing home placement as the optimal way to meet their elders' need for care. These processes were mediated by two mechanisms: the function the institution fulfilled for residents and their caregivers, and the coping strategies residents used to adapt to institutional living. The wide variety of elders' psycho-emotional coping strategies can best be summarized as accommodation, resignation, and resistance which translate into a number of behaviors. However, there was no typical or neat movement from resistance to resignation followed by accommodation. Instead, residents pulled from their repertoire of coping strategies the ones that served them best in a given situation and in a way that allowed them to express simultaneously satisfaction and discontent, compromise and adjustment. Clark and Anderson's (1967) model of adaptation proved useful for understanding participants' struggle to come to terms with life in the nursing home.

Activities of Daily Living↗