Lisel O’dwyer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 112502 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Lisel O’dwyer |
| NOMBRES | Lisel |
| APELLIDO | O’dwyer |
| FIRMA | O’DWYER L |
| AFILIACIONES | Appleton Institute, Central Queensland University, Australia |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Safe – A risk management tool to protect both people and pets in residential aged care facilities
Pet ownership has known health and well-being benefits for people of all ages. Most previous research on pet ownership among older people has focussed on older people with pets living independently in their own homes or the effects of visiting pet programs in residential aged care. With structural ageing of populations globally, the number of humans living into old age is increasing. Even with home support and care policies, an increasing number …
A Qualitative Analysis of Pets as Suicide Protection for Older People
An unanticipated finding during research on the role that pets play in the health of older adults was that pets had protected some from suicide. Given that older people are more vulnerable to fatal first attempts, understanding protective factors in this population is vital. Twelve older adults interviewed about the role of pets on their health spoke overtly of suicide (n = 2), obliquely referred to suicidal ideation (n = 5), or reported high lev…
Pet Loss
The growing body of literature exploring pet loss suggests that many bereaved pet owners experience disenfranchised grief. Disenfranchised grief occurs when a loss is unacknowledged and the bereaved are unable to express their grief. When grief is considered illegitimate, the bereaved may experience a variety of adverse psychological outcomes, including increased distress and reduced quality of life. Additionally, when grief is inhibited, the ind…
Walking the dog – chore or leisure?
This chapter explores the reasons why people walk their dogs to understand how best to encourage responsible dog ownership and thus improve dogs’ quality of life, as well as develop ways to make walking the dog a more pleasurable leisure experience for both members of the partnership. An online survey of Australian dog owners found that dog walking did not rate highly as a preferred leisure option. The best predictors of whether dog owners walk t…
One Dog, but Which Dog? How Researchers Guide Participants to Select Dogs in Surveys of Human-Dog Relationships
Surveys and questionnaires are regularly used in studies of human–animal relationships. However, little attention has been given to understanding how survey participants are provided with instructions for the selection of a single animal within a multi-pet household, let alone the implications for reporting and interpreting data. We reviewed the instructions for the selection of an individual animal in studies addressing emotional or psychologica…
Successful British Migration to Australia—what lies beneath the macro-level
What is successful migration? At a macro-socio-political level migration by individuals may appear to be successful when it has met the objectives of governments, industries and domestic profit makers. However, delving beneath the surface can reveal contradictions and other measures of success at the individual, or micro-level. Within a broader critical historical ethnography, we interviewed 26 post-World War 2 (WW2) British migrants living in So…
The value frameworks and motivations for intergenerational transfers from older Australians
Transfers of time and money from people aged 50 or more may be made upward to living parents or downward to children, or both. The role of family in such transfers has strong implications for the level of social support offered by the state. This article takes a qualitative approach to reveal the value frameworks and motivations behind these transfers, based on a subsample of 30 respondents from a larger Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CAT…
Are baby‐boomers healthy enough to keep working? Health as a mediator of extended labour force participation
One strategy to reduce the economic impact of structural ageing is to increase and/or extend the workforce participation of older workers. Currently, a large proportion of this group consists of post‐World War II baby‐boomers (1946–1965) whose characteristics, experiences and attitudes differ markedly from their predecessors. Maintaining good health underpins strategies to extend workforce participation among baby‐boomers but there is little hard…
Effects of mobility and location on food access
Using GIS to Identify Risk of Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Children in Adelaide
Environmental lead poses significant health risks to small children in most western countries. However, many surveys examining the prevalence of elevated paediatric blood lead levels give insufficient attention to the geography of the major known risk factors. GIS can address the spatial variation inherent in the distribution of these risk factors, and can identify areas, streets and even individual dwellings with a high probability of environmen…
The Impact of Housing Inheritance on the Distribution of Wealth in Australia
Home ownership has enabled most Australian households to accumulate significant wealth. Does the transfer of this wealth via inheritance offer a significant capital gain to beneficiaries and how does it influence the distribution of wealth? Data are presented showing the value of wealth at death before and after it is divided amongst beneficiaries. Particular attention is paid to how wealth varies between various categories of wealth-holders, bef…
Housing Inheritance and the Private Rental Sector in Australia
The impact of housing inheritance on housing provision has been overlooked in previous work, which has concentrated on quantifying housing wealth and ascertaining whether or not it results in or contributes to social stratification. However, Australian research shows that while housing inheritance may only have modest effects on the wealth of beneficiaries, most of whom are middle-aged home owners themselves, there are important implications for …
Effects of mobility and location on food access
A Qualitative Analysis of Pets as Suicide Protection for Older People
An unanticipated finding during research on the role that pets play in the health of older adults was that pets had protected some from suicide. Given that older people are more vulnerable to fatal first attempts, understanding protective factors in this population is vital. Twelve older adults interviewed about the role of pets on their health spoke overtly of suicide (n = 2), obliquely referred to suicidal ideation (n = 5), or reported high lev…
Pet Loss
The growing body of literature exploring pet loss suggests that many bereaved pet owners experience disenfranchised grief. Disenfranchised grief occurs when a loss is unacknowledged and the bereaved are unable to express their grief. When grief is considered illegitimate, the bereaved may experience a variety of adverse psychological outcomes, including increased distress and reduced quality of life. Additionally, when grief is inhibited, the ind…
The Impact of Housing Inheritance on the Distribution of Wealth in Australia
Home ownership has enabled most Australian households to accumulate significant wealth. Does the transfer of this wealth via inheritance offer a significant capital gain to beneficiaries and how does it influence the distribution of wealth? Data are presented showing the value of wealth at death before and after it is divided amongst beneficiaries. Particular attention is paid to how wealth varies between various categories of wealth-holders, bef…
Housing Inheritance and the Private Rental Sector in Australia
The impact of housing inheritance on housing provision has been overlooked in previous work, which has concentrated on quantifying housing wealth and ascertaining whether or not it results in or contributes to social stratification. However, Australian research shows that while housing inheritance may only have modest effects on the wealth of beneficiaries, most of whom are middle-aged home owners themselves, there are important implications for …
Housing Inheritance and the Private Rental Sector in Australia
The impact of housing inheritance on housing provision has been overlooked in previous work, which has concentrated on quantifying housing wealth and ascertaining whether or not it results in or contributes to social stratification. However, Australian research shows that while housing inheritance may only have modest effects on the wealth of beneficiaries, most of whom are middle-aged home owners themselves, there are important implications for …
Using GIS to Identify Risk of Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Children in Adelaide
Environmental lead poses significant health risks to small children in most western countries. However, many surveys examining the prevalence of elevated paediatric blood lead levels give insufficient attention to the geography of the major known risk factors. GIS can address the spatial variation inherent in the distribution of these risk factors, and can identify areas, streets and even individual dwellings with a high probability of environmen…
The Impact of Housing Inheritance on the Distribution of Wealth in Australia
Home ownership has enabled most Australian households to accumulate significant wealth. Does the transfer of this wealth via inheritance offer a significant capital gain to beneficiaries and how does it influence the distribution of wealth? Data are presented showing the value of wealth at death before and after it is divided amongst beneficiaries. Particular attention is paid to how wealth varies between various categories of wealth-holders, bef…
Effects of mobility and location on food access
Are baby‐boomers healthy enough to keep working? Health as a mediator of extended labour force participation
One strategy to reduce the economic impact of structural ageing is to increase and/or extend the workforce participation of older workers. Currently, a large proportion of this group consists of post‐World War II baby‐boomers (1946–1965) whose characteristics, experiences and attitudes differ markedly from their predecessors. Maintaining good health underpins strategies to extend workforce participation among baby‐boomers but there is little hard…
The value frameworks and motivations for intergenerational transfers from older Australians
Transfers of time and money from people aged 50 or more may be made upward to living parents or downward to children, or both. The role of family in such transfers has strong implications for the level of social support offered by the state. This article takes a qualitative approach to reveal the value frameworks and motivations behind these transfers, based on a subsample of 30 respondents from a larger Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CAT…
Successful British Migration to Australia—what lies beneath the macro-level
What is successful migration? At a macro-socio-political level migration by individuals may appear to be successful when it has met the objectives of governments, industries and domestic profit makers. However, delving beneath the surface can reveal contradictions and other measures of success at the individual, or micro-level. Within a broader critical historical ethnography, we interviewed 26 post-World War 2 (WW2) British migrants living in So…
Walking the dog – chore or leisure?
This chapter explores the reasons why people walk their dogs to understand how best to encourage responsible dog ownership and thus improve dogs’ quality of life, as well as develop ways to make walking the dog a more pleasurable leisure experience for both members of the partnership. An online survey of Australian dog owners found that dog walking did not rate highly as a preferred leisure option. The best predictors of whether dog owners walk t…
One Dog, but Which Dog? How Researchers Guide Participants to Select Dogs in Surveys of Human-Dog Relationships
Surveys and questionnaires are regularly used in studies of human–animal relationships. However, little attention has been given to understanding how survey participants are provided with instructions for the selection of a single animal within a multi-pet household, let alone the implications for reporting and interpreting data. We reviewed the instructions for the selection of an individual animal in studies addressing emotional or psychologica…
Pet Loss
The growing body of literature exploring pet loss suggests that many bereaved pet owners experience disenfranchised grief. Disenfranchised grief occurs when a loss is unacknowledged and the bereaved are unable to express their grief. When grief is considered illegitimate, the bereaved may experience a variety of adverse psychological outcomes, including increased distress and reduced quality of life. Additionally, when grief is inhibited, the ind…
A Qualitative Analysis of Pets as Suicide Protection for Older People
An unanticipated finding during research on the role that pets play in the health of older adults was that pets had protected some from suicide. Given that older people are more vulnerable to fatal first attempts, understanding protective factors in this population is vital. Twelve older adults interviewed about the role of pets on their health spoke overtly of suicide (n = 2), obliquely referred to suicidal ideation (n = 5), or reported high lev…
Safe – A risk management tool to protect both people and pets in residential aged care facilities
Pet ownership has known health and well-being benefits for people of all ages. Most previous research on pet ownership among older people has focussed on older people with pets living independently in their own homes or the effects of visiting pet programs in residential aged care. With structural ageing of populations globally, the number of humans living into old age is increasing. Even with home support and care policies, an increasing number …
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