Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
  1. Home
  2. Journals
  3. Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement
  4. Volume 27
Journal Home
Refine listing

Refine listing

Access:
Publication date:

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×
< Back to all issues

Volume 27 - Spring/Printemps 2008

Contents

Page 3 of 3

Articles

  • Mall Walking as a Physical Activity Option: Results of a Pilot Project

  • S. Nicole Culos-Reed, Lynette Stephenson, Patricia K. Doyle-Baker, James A. Dickinson
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    31 March 2010, pp. 81-87

  • The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility and benefits (fitness and quality of life) of an 8-week mall-walking program. A total of 52 participants (n = 39at post-testing) took part in the pilot project (mean age = 66.4; range 46–83 years), with an overall attendance rate of 62.4 per cent. Participants self-selected pace, time, and frequency. Fitness measures, physical activity behaviour, and quality of life were assessed pre- and post-program. Results indicate a significant improvement in physical activity behaviour and most fitness indices. No quality-of-life changes were found, likely due to the above-norm values at baseline. Overall, this pilot project supports the feasibility of and positive health improvements associated with a mall-walking program. Such programs should be considered as part of health-promotion programs, especially for the aging population.

Call for Nominations/Appel de candidatures

Articles

  • “We Only Own the Hours”: Discontinuity of Care in the British Columbia Home Support System*

  • Zena Sharman, Arlene Tigar McLaren, Marcy Cohen, Aleck Ostry
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    31 March 2010, pp. 89-99

  • This article uses the concept of continuity of care to examine the implications of health-system restructuring for workers and staff in the BC home support system. Home support primarily serves frail seniors living in poverty and has the potential to provide assistance with tasks like bathing, dressing, and toileting, as well as offer social support and relational care to isolated clients. Through presentation of qualitative data from focus groups and interviews with home support workers and clients in the Greater Vancouver area, we demonstrate how the casualization and intensification of work in a context of increasing client acuity levels has diminished both continuity and quality of care. This article discusses how restructuring in the home support sector in BC has reduced the overall number of persons under care in the system, disrupted continuity of care, and compromised quality.

Front matter

  • CJG volume 27 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    31 March 2010, pp. f1-f3
    • Article
      • You have access
    • PDF
    • Export citation

Back matter

  • CJG volume 27 issue 4 Back matter

  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    31 March 2010, p. b1
    • Article
      • You have access
    • PDF
    • Export citation

Front matter

  • CJG volume 27 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    31 March 2010, pp. f1-f3
    • Article
      • You have access
    • PDF
    • Export citation

Articles

  • The Nature of Relationships in Alternative Dementia Care Environments*

  • Elaine C. Wiersma, Alison Pedlar
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    31 March 2010, pp. 101-108

  • The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine the experiences of older adults with dementia while they were in long-term care and while they were in a summer-camp setting. Participant observation and interviews took place in both settings to gain an understanding of the experiences of seven residents of the long-term care facility. In the participants' experiences in the two contrasting environments, two types of relationships were evident—functional and supportive. Differing strategies were employed by residents within these two types of relationships. Notably, in supportive relationships, participants used humour and reminiscing in ways that reflected the depth of the relationship. At summer camp, in a more open and less constrained environment, relationships were dramatically altered and included elements of equality; personal interactions; and attention, reciprocity, and trust.

  • Hospitalization Rates of Nursing Home Residents and Community-Dwelling Seniors in British Columbia*

  • Lisa A. Ronald, Margaret J. McGregor, Kimberlyn M. McGrail, Robert B. Tate, Anne-Marie Broemling
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    31 March 2010, pp. 109-115

  • The overall use of acute care services by nursing home (NH) residents in Canada has not been well documented. Our objectives were to identify the major causes of hospitalization among NH facility residents and to compare rates to those of community-dwelling seniors. A retrospective cohort was defined using population-level health administrative data, including all individuals aged 65 years and older living in a British Columbia NH facility between April 1996 and March 1999. Hospitalization rates of NH residents were compared to estimated rates for community-dwelling seniors, using age- and sex-adjusted standardized incidence ratios (SIRs): SIR = 2.81 (95%CI: 2.71, 2.91) for femoral fractures, 1.96 (1.88, 2.04) for pneumonia, 0.73 (0.70, 0.76) for other heart disease, and 1.01 (0.99, 1.02) for all causes. NH residents have disproportionately higher rates of hospitalization for femoral fractures and pneumonia, with NH residents accounting for approximately one quarter of all femoral fracture hospitalizations of BC seniors.

Book Reviews/Comptes rendus

Reviewers List/Liste des arbitres 2007

Call for Nominations/Appel de candidatures

Front matter

  • CJG volume 27 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    31 March 2010, pp. f1-f4
    • Article
      • You have access
    • PDF
    • Export citation

Back matter

  • CJG volume 27 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    20 February 2017, pp. b1-b6
    • Article
      • You have access
    • PDF
    • Export citation

Page 3 of 3