Quality in Ageing and Older Adults: Volume 5 Issue 3

Promoting excellence in services through research, policy and practice

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Caregiver—carereceiver communication Part 2: Overcoming the influence of stereotypical role expectations

Helen Edwards, Helen Chapman

Part 1 of this paper explored the premise that a role predicament of caring exists within family caregiving relationships. It was argued that dysfunctional patterns of…

A concise alternative for researching health‐related quality of life in older people

Gillian Windle, Rhiannon Edwards, Vanessa Burholt

Researchers have a wide range of tools for health assessments to choose from, some of which can be lengthy and time consuming. The purpose of this paper is to examine a…

A falls prevention exercise programme in a primary care trust

Linda Dobrzanska, Debbie Crossland, Maggie Domanski, Sue Towriss

The Falls Exercise Prevention Programme for older people was introduced as a new project for North Bradford Primary Care Trust in 2002. The introduction of this new service was in…

Older adults' beliefs about physical activity and exercise: Life course influences and transitions

Jennifer Scanlon‐Mogel, Karen Roberto

Using a life course perspective, we identified perceived events, transitions and trajectories in older adults' lives that contributed to and inhibited continuous participation in…

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ISSN:

1471-7794

Online date, start – end:

2000

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Fiona Poland