Quality in Ageing and Older Adults: Volume 23 Issue 3

Editorial

Fiona Poland

Mixed methods evaluation on village neighborhood social cohesiveness and quality of life

Su-I Hou, Esteban Santis, Anna V. Eskamani, Khristen Holmes

The “Village” model has become an emerging, community-based, social initiative to help older adults age in place. This study aims to examine neighborhood social cohesion (NSC), or…

Agreement and participants’ preferences comparing: self-rated falls risk questionnaire (FRQ) and activities-specific balance confidence (ABC) scale in community-dwelling older adults using the Bland–Altman method

Hadi Kooshiar, Joy C. MacDermid, Dave M. Walton, Ruby Grewal

Screening for fall risks is an important part of fall and fracture prevention. This study aims to investigate cross-sectional inter-instrumental agreement and participants’…

Optimizing older adult co-researchers’ involvement in PAR: proposed evaluation tool

Emilie Raymond, Christophe Tremblay, Jean-Guy Lebel

This paper aims to share a practical evaluation tool intended to guide and support the participation of older people in PAR projects. Participatory action research (PAR) studies…

Use and perception of gerontechnology: differences in a group of Spanish older adults

Alicia Murciano-Hueso, Judith Martín-Lucas, Sara Serrate González, Patricia Torrijos Fincias

The purpose of this paper is to understand the profile of use of gerontechnology in Spanish older adults considering their age group (60–70; 71–80 and over 80 years) and to…

An international qualitative feasibility study to explore the process of using social innovation (co-production) strategies with older people: the SAIL project

Holly Louise Crossen-White, Ann Hemingway, Adele Ladkin, Andrew Jones, Amanda Burke, Olaf Timmermans

This paper aims to present the feasibility study findings from a four-year project funded by the European Union Commission (the SAIL project, Staying Active and Independent for…

Aging all over the place: a multidisciplinary framework that considers place and life trajectories of older adults within their communities

Melanie Levasseur, Daniel Naud, Nancy Presse, Nathalie Delli-Colli, Patrick Boissy, Benoît Cossette, Yves Couturier, Julien Cadieux Genesse

This conceptual paper aims to describe aging all over the place (AAOP), a federative framework for action, research and policy that considers older adults’ diverse experiences of…