Janine Wiles
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 329122 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Janine Wiles |
| NOMBRES | Janine |
| APELLIDO | Wiles |
| FIRMA | WILES J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9538-4630 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 62 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1531 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 17 |
Expectations and experiences of grandfathers parenting grandchildren
Informal kinship care, where relatives other than their parents raise children, is increasing globally. Grandparents, and sometimes grandfathers, are often called to parent grandchildren due to various familial challenges. This study explores the experiences and expectations of grandfathers parenting grandchildren in Aotearoa, New Zealand. A qualitative descriptive study was conducted using semi-structured interviews with 21 grandfathers who tran…
Pacific People's Palliative and End‐of‐Life Care Experiences in Aotearoa New Zealand
Background: Pacific patients and families in New Zealand have limited access to palliative care services in comparison with non‐Pacific families. Culturally, Pacific families prefer to take care of their family members in the home. Yet, Pacific families tend to experience challenges in accessing services and support from such services typically because of limited knowledge of where to go as well as cultural concerns. The purpose of this review wa…
The Experiences of Older Unpaid Carers in New Zealand
In an aging society, the substantial and enduring contribution to caring for an older person at home is often unpaid and largely invisible to policymakers and health professionals. Current research on caring roles has paid minimal attention to the views of older, unpaid carers looking after older adults. We explored the impact on the lifestyles of older unpaid carers of older people in Aotearoa New Zealand and the supports they would value. In th…
Experiences of grandfathers as primary caregivers raising grandchildren
When the welfare of a child requires placement away from parents, a grandparent is often the preferred choice for relocation. Placement is predominantly with grandmothers, and the experiences of grandmothers in a parenting role have been well reported. The experiences of grandfathers who parent grandchildren, however, are less understood, despite grandfathers often being present. This integrative review aims to identify and integrate current lite…
Older people enacting resilience in stories about living alone and receiving home care
Although older people who live alone might be in a vulnerable situation, they have often managed their everyday life for a long time, frequently with health challenges. In this article, we explore how nine older persons who live alone, who receive home care and are identified by home care professionals as being frail, manage their everyday lives by inquiring into their stories about living alone and receiving home care. We conducted three qualita…
‘Assessing my risk and that of my whānau is my right’
Risk identification has been at the heart of media coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic.Less consideration has been paid to the way that the media itself has (re)produced these risk categories, and how this has changed over the course of the pandemic. The aim of this article is to understand how risk has been constructed in the Aotearoa, New Zealand news media over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper reports findings from a longitudinal …
More than prevention
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) minimises HIV risk and New Zealand was one of the first countries to publicly fund PrEP in 2018. However, no studies have explored in-depth the experience and meaning of living 'on PrEP' among individuals at elevated risk of HIV, such as gay and bisexual men. This qualitative study builds on findings from the NZPrEP demonstration project of early PrEP-adopting gay and bisexual men in Auckland, New Zealand. We inter…
Older People’s Understandings and Experiences of Using Health and Social Care Services under Covid‐19 Lockdown Restrictions in Aotearoa, New Zealand
Internationally, the COVID‐19 pandemic resulted in changes to services as governments funneled health‐related funding and resources into stopping the spread of COVID‐19. At the same time, older people were singled out as an “at‐risk” group, which prompted caution from both older people and governments to limit their exposure to COVID‐19. It remains unclear what the impact this has had on older people’s routine health and social care access, and h…
The timescapes of older adults living alone and receiving home care
In this study, we drew on Barbara Adam's (1998) timescape perspective and applied a timescape lens to our analysis of how nine older adults who live alone, receive home care and are considered by home care professionals to be frail, experience living (in) time. Over a period of eight months, we conducted three interviews with each of the nine participants. We analysed the data using reflexive thematic analysis and drew on timescapes to further in…
Health geographies III – Landscapes of care
In this third report, I focus on the concept of ‘landscapes of care’ in health geography. I explore three interrelated areas of recent work: landscapes of inequities and slow violence; landscapes of care as more than clinical, and more expansive ways to think about landscapes of care. All raise interesting questions about defining and understanding different kinds of care, complexities of familiar and new landscapes, the transformative potential …
Diverse approaches to conceptualising positive ageing
To be realistic and meaningful, positive ageing conceptualisations should involve a diverse range of perspectives. Yet, problematically, perspectives are often distinguished as ‘researcher versus older adult’. In this scoping review, we suggest that distinguishing perspectives based on the data collection and interpretation approach is more meaningful. Guided by Arksey and O’Malley’s scoping review framework, we explored diverse positive ageing l…
Health geographies II
Resilience means doing well in the context of difficulty; it is both process and outcome, individual and collective, and it relates to inequities because it is about accessing resources. Resilience helps understand and improve health and wellbeing because it incorporates adversity and challenges. In this report, I argue resilience is also inherently geographical, and operates at interconnected scales. I highlight health geographers are well-place…
Cultural context in New Zealand
We examined the importance of understanding and incorporating cultural context within Aotearoa/New Zealand when engaging in clinical research and practice. This paper reports on the qualitative findings of a mixed methods study aimed at determining what effect a cardiac risk reduction exercise and lifestyle management programme, embedded within a kaupapa Māori methodological approach, had on Māori participants. This methodology saw participants a…
Combining action research and grounded theory in health research
Action research and grounded theory are popular methodologies in qualitative health research. The aim of this structured narrative review was to develop a contemporary understanding of combining action research and grounded theory. We searched Web of Science Core Collection and Google Scholar for empirical peer-reviewed articles that used both methodologies in a health- or healthcare-focused study. We identified 28 studies published from 2004 to …
Older Chinese and Korean migrants' experiences of the first Covid ‐19 lockdown in Aotearoa New Zealand
Later‐life migrants, as older people living away from their home nations, occupy multiply‐precarious positions in relation to national COVID‐19 pandemic responses. Concern has particularly centred on this group's increased risk of social and linguistic exclusion. We explore the perspectives of later‐life older Chinese and Koreans living in New Zealand during the nation's COVID‐19 lockdown of 2020. This paper presents a sub‐analysis of culturally‐…
How socially cohesive was New Zealand’s first lockdown period from the perspective of culturally diverse older New Zealanders
Aotearoa, New Zealand’s (NZ) initial pandemic response has been held up internationally as a model of social cohesion and compassion, made salient by the ‘team of five million’ messaging promoted by the New Zealand government. This paper considers whether the first New Zealand COVID‐19 lockdown was viewed and experienced as socially cohesive from the perspective of diverse older New Zealanders. This study presents a deductive analysis based on 44…
Intergenerational Tension or Cohesion during the Covid-19 Pandemic
This paper examines older people’s experiences of intergenerational interaction during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Aotearoa, New Zealand (NZ). This paper presents an analysis of a letter-writing study with older people (mean = 77 years) living in NZ. A total of 760 letters were received from 870 participants. A sub-sample of 412 letters focused on intergenerational interaction were analyzed thematically. This analysis presents a mostly positiv…
Locating transport sector responsibilities for the wellbeing of mobility-challenged people in Aotearoa New Zealand
wellbeing is a central tenet in the Aotearoa New Zealand government's Transport Outcomes Framework. Yet considerations of how place mediates diverse opportunities for wellbeing seldom identify how decision-making on transport and pedestrian infrastructure affects these opportunities. Considering the lived realities of older people and people with disabilities with a specific focus on Indigenous people, we argue it is particularly important to ide…
Predictive factors for entry to long-term residential care in octogenarian Māori and non-Māori in New Zealand, LiLacs NZ cohort
Non-Māori participants (predominantly European) entered LTC at almost twice the rate of Māori. Factors differed between Māori and non-Māori. Potentially, the needs, preferences, expectations and/or values may differ correspondingly. Research with different cultural/ethnic groups is required to determine how these differences should inform service development
Social-Level Factors Related to Positive Mental Health Outcomes Following Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate partner violence (IPV) continues to be an issue for women globally. There remains a gap in research about what contributes to better mental health following IPV. The sociodemographic characteristics and other factors associated with positive mental health were explored among a sample of 454 women aged 16 years and over who reported previous exposure to physical and/or sexual IPV. Sixty-six percent of women reported positive mental health…
Health geographies 1
Cultural safety means transforming systems and practices to enable different ways of knowing, providing a shift in our lens of inquiry – so that it includes privilege and advantage as well as the more common foci of disadvantage and exclusion. It is almost three decades since Isabel Dyck and Robin Kearns asserted the need to address these issues in health geography. Given the length of time that has passed since their suggestion, in this report, …
Social connectedness
While social connectedness is heralded as a key enabler of positive health and social outcomes for older people, rarely have they themselves had the opportunity to express their views about the concept. Working with a diverse group of Pacific, Māori, Asian and New Zealand European older adults, this paper explores what matters to older people when discussing social connectedness? We draw from individual, in-depth interviews with 44 older adults, …
The braided river of health geography
Recommendations for Virtual Qualitative Health Research During a Pandemic
Qualitative health research has been uniquely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Various public health directives will likely remain in place until this pandemic is fully controlled, creating long-lasting impacts on the design and conduct of qualitative health research. Virtual qualitative research provides an alternative to traditional interviews or focus groups and can help researchers adhere to public health directives. In this commentary, we …
Gardens as resources in advanced age in Aotearoa NZ
The Meaning of "Aging in Place" to Older People
This study illuminates the concept of "aging in place" in terms of functional, symbolic, and emotional attachments and meanings of homes, neighbourhoods, and communities. It investigates how older people understand the meaning of "aging in place," a term widely used in aging policy and research but underexplored with older people themselves. Older people (n = 121), ranging in age from 56 to 92 years, participated in focus groups and interviews in…
Landscapes of care
The term 'landscapes of care' has increasingly taken hold in the lexicon of health geography. As the complex social, embodied and organizational spatialities that emerge from and through relationships of care, landscapes of care open up spaces that enable us to unpack how differing bodies of geographical work might be thought of in relationship to each other. Specifically, we explore the relation between 'proximity' and 'distance' and caring for …
Older people and their social spaces
Geographical Gerontology
Daily geographies of caregivers
Care of the body
Care—concept, emotion, practice, politics, moral exhortation—is a starting point for a range of critical geographies. Care affords geographers a richness of possibilities through which to engage critically with a range of politically charged discourses. This special issue offers a suite of ‘think’ pieces on geographies of care which provoke further examination of three challenges. First, we need conceptual strategies to explore the connections of…
Reflections on being a recipient of care
Focusing on the experiences of older people, I argue that geographers could contribute to understanding what it means to receive care. I explore some geographical literature that does focus on older care recipients, which emphasises both the experiences of changing care provision in different spatial contexts and affectual aspects of care relationships. Emphasising older people’s perspectives and experiences of being a care recipient may illumina…
Narrative analysis as a strategy for understanding interview talk in geographic research
Narrative analysis produces strategies to inform the conduct, interpretation and presentation of interview talk, and encourages and enables researchers to take account of research participants’ own evaluations. We suggest this to be a useful method for geographers because it focuses on how people talk about and evaluate places, experiences and situations, as well as what they say. With an example from health geography, we show how it allows for i…
Resilience from the point of view of older people
Informal caregivers’ experiences of formal support in a changing context
As the location of long-term care of elderly people moves to homes and communities, and responsibility for care shifts to families, understanding the experience of people in this situation is necessary to ensure that support is appropriate, accessible and effective. The present paper explores informal caregivers' and recipients' relationships with formal support, drawing on thematic and narrative analysis of 30 in-depth interviews with self-ident…
Re-spacing and re-placing gerontology
This paper describes how space and place have been understood in gerontology as phenomenon that are both physical and social in character, yet are relatively bounded and static. The argument is posed as to how, following recent developments in human geography, a relational approach might be adopted. Involving a twist in current thinking, this would instead understand space and place each as highly permeable, fluid and networked at multiple scales…
Sense of home in a transnational social space
In this article, I explore the ways in which 'middling' migrant New Zealanders living in London and New Zealand discuss and identify with home. For these multi-local individuals, the discursive and material aspects of New Zealand as home form a framework for their everyday life as migrants living in London. Interpretation of the interviews using thematic and narrative analyses works through a conceptualization of home, migration, and identity as …
Care for place
A rose by any other name
How do researchers name people respectfully in research projects? In an interview study on aspects of aging, 38 participants were invited to choose their own pseudonyms for the research. The resulting discussions show that the common practice of allocating pseudonyms to confer anonymity is not merely a technical procedure, but renaming has psychological meaning to both the participants and the content and process of the research. The care and tho…
Lonely ageing in a foreign land
Ageing does not reduce people's need to connect with family members, friends, and acquaintances, and neither does migration. For those older migrants living in a foreign land, connectedness with others plays a particularly important role in achieving a sense of belonging and sustaining their health and well-being. This paper explores the issues of social isolation and loneliness among older Asian migrants in New Zealand. Data were collected from …
Resilience
This article examines the utility of the concept of resilience to the field of critical gerontology. Resilience is an increasingly popular concept within the social sciences. We explore some key ideas about individual and social resilience from varied fields, and propose new ways to conceptualise these in relation to resilience in later life. This article examines the history of the concept of resilience; explores some of the diverse ways that ge…
Recommendations for Virtual Qualitative Health Research During a Pandemic
Qualitative health research has been uniquely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Various public health directives will likely remain in place until this pandemic is fully controlled, creating long-lasting impacts on the design and conduct of qualitative health research. Virtual qualitative research provides an alternative to traditional interviews or focus groups and can help researchers adhere to public health directives. In this commentary, we …
Attachment to place in advanced age
Liminal homes
How Older People Position Their Late-Life Childlessness
This research explored how older people describe their paths to late-life childlessness. In-depth accounts from 38 childless older people, age 63-93, highlight the complex journeys and diverse meanings of childlessness for male and female participants, single and partnered, including some who had outlived children. Positioning theory is used to show how the conventional voluntary - involuntary binary is insufficient for capturing their experience…
You can’t put your roots down’
In light of housing affordability concerns, we examine older people’s experiences of renting within a context of enduring home-ownership norms and aspirations. Adapting Clapham’s housing pathways framework, we ask: How is rental tenure experienced by older people who have encountered precarity in their housing history? Drawing on interviews with 13 older tenants, we observe the uneasy relationship between tenure insecurity and housing quality, an…
The utility of positioning theory to the study of ageing
Precariously placed
Challenged but not threatened
Living with Diabetes on Baffin Island
Gentle caring experience’
Health care reform in New Zealand
Informal caregivers’ experiences of formal support in a changing context
As the location of long-term care of elderly people moves to homes and communities, and responsibility for care shifts to families, understanding the experience of people in this situation is necessary to ensure that support is appropriate, accessible and effective. The present paper explores informal caregivers' and recipients' relationships with formal support, drawing on thematic and narrative analysis of 30 in-depth interviews with self-ident…
Daily geographies of caregivers
Narrative analysis as a strategy for understanding interview talk in geographic research
Narrative analysis produces strategies to inform the conduct, interpretation and presentation of interview talk, and encourages and enables researchers to take account of research participants’ own evaluations. We suggest this to be a useful method for geographers because it focuses on how people talk about and evaluate places, experiences and situations, as well as what they say. With an example from health geography, we show how it allows for i…
Geographical Gerontology
Living with Diabetes on Baffin Island
Sense of home in a transnational social space
In this article, I explore the ways in which 'middling' migrant New Zealanders living in London and New Zealand discuss and identify with home. For these multi-local individuals, the discursive and material aspects of New Zealand as home form a framework for their everyday life as migrants living in London. Interpretation of the interviews using thematic and narrative analyses works through a conceptualization of home, migration, and identity as …
Older people and their social spaces
Landscapes of care
The term 'landscapes of care' has increasingly taken hold in the lexicon of health geography. As the complex social, embodied and organizational spatialities that emerge from and through relationships of care, landscapes of care open up spaces that enable us to unpack how differing bodies of geographical work might be thought of in relationship to each other. Specifically, we explore the relation between 'proximity' and 'distance' and caring for …
The Meaning of "Aging in Place" to Older People
This study illuminates the concept of "aging in place" in terms of functional, symbolic, and emotional attachments and meanings of homes, neighbourhoods, and communities. It investigates how older people understand the meaning of "aging in place," a term widely used in aging policy and research but underexplored with older people themselves. Older people (n = 121), ranging in age from 56 to 92 years, participated in focus groups and interviews in…
Care of the body
Care—concept, emotion, practice, politics, moral exhortation—is a starting point for a range of critical geographies. Care affords geographers a richness of possibilities through which to engage critically with a range of politically charged discourses. This special issue offers a suite of ‘think’ pieces on geographies of care which provoke further examination of three challenges. First, we need conceptual strategies to explore the connections of…
Reflections on being a recipient of care
Focusing on the experiences of older people, I argue that geographers could contribute to understanding what it means to receive care. I explore some geographical literature that does focus on older care recipients, which emphasises both the experiences of changing care provision in different spatial contexts and affectual aspects of care relationships. Emphasising older people’s perspectives and experiences of being a care recipient may illumina…
Resilience from the point of view of older people
Care for place
The utility of positioning theory to the study of ageing
Re-spacing and re-placing gerontology
This paper describes how space and place have been understood in gerontology as phenomenon that are both physical and social in character, yet are relatively bounded and static. The argument is posed as to how, following recent developments in human geography, a relational approach might be adopted. Involving a twist in current thinking, this would instead understand space and place each as highly permeable, fluid and networked at multiple scales…
Resilience
This article examines the utility of the concept of resilience to the field of critical gerontology. Resilience is an increasingly popular concept within the social sciences. We explore some key ideas about individual and social resilience from varied fields, and propose new ways to conceptualise these in relation to resilience in later life. This article examines the history of the concept of resilience; explores some of the diverse ways that ge…
How Older People Position Their Late-Life Childlessness
This research explored how older people describe their paths to late-life childlessness. In-depth accounts from 38 childless older people, age 63-93, highlight the complex journeys and diverse meanings of childlessness for male and female participants, single and partnered, including some who had outlived children. Positioning theory is used to show how the conventional voluntary - involuntary binary is insufficient for capturing their experience…
A rose by any other name
How do researchers name people respectfully in research projects? In an interview study on aspects of aging, 38 participants were invited to choose their own pseudonyms for the research. The resulting discussions show that the common practice of allocating pseudonyms to confer anonymity is not merely a technical procedure, but renaming has psychological meaning to both the participants and the content and process of the research. The care and tho…
Gambling machine annexes as enabling spaces for addictive engagement
Liminal homes
Older adults’ experiences of home maintenance issues and opportunities to maintain ageing in place
This paper addresses the question of how older adults’ experiences of home maintenance issues shape their opportunities to maintain ageing in place. We explore this question through a case study of ageing in place on Waiheke Island, near Auckland, New Zealand. We draw on in-depth interviews with 28 older adults aged 65 to 94, as well as participatory photo elicitation interviews and research journals conducted with 11 of these participants. We ar…
Open to critique
Bridging/foundation programmes are often provided by tertiary institutions to increase equity in access and academic performance of students from under-served communities. Little empirical evidence exists to measure the effectiveness of these bridging/foundation programmes on undergraduate academic outcomes. This research identifies the predictive effect of academic outcomes achieved within a bridging/foundation programme, targeted towards indige…
Ethnic and Gender Differences in Preferred Activities among Māori and non-Māori of Advanced age in New Zealand
Sociology (53 obras) · Psychology (44 obras) · Medicine (36 obras) · Social Psychology (27 obras) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (25 obras) · Political science (24 obras) · Health disparities and outcomes (23 obras) · Social Psychology (21 obras) · Gerontology (20 obras) · Qualitative research (20 obras)