Valerie Wright‐st Clair
Biographic Data
| ID | 4871758 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valerie Wright‐st Clair |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valerie Wright‐st |
| FAMILY NAME | Clair |
| SIGNATURE | CLAIR V W S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Auckland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7505-3946 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The influence of spirituality and religion on health and well-being for older Pacific People
The influence of spirituality and religion on the health and well-being of older adults has gained considerable attention as older adults worldwide continue to live long, active lives. This study explores the influence of spirituality and religion on the health and well-being of older Pacific people living in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Using the principles of a Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach and talanoa with 39 Tongan, 42 Cook Island Mā…
Using Co-design Methods With Chinese Late-Life Immigrants to Translate Mixed-Method Findings to Social Resources
Mainland Chinese born in the 1940s-1950s have experienced unique socio-cultural circumstances that have shaped their late-life immigration experiences. Little is known about what this population perceives would reduce their loneliness. This study aimed to investigate the role of co-design in the development of community-based resources/services for ameliorating the loneliness of Chinese late-life immigrants. Eight co-researchers completed three c…
Prevalence of Loneliness and Its Association With General and Health-Related Measures of Subjective Well-Being in a Longitudinal Bicultural Cohort of Older Adults in Advanced Age Living in New Zealand…
Our findings of adverse impacts on subjective well-being corroborate other evidence, highlighting loneliness as a prime candidate for intervention-appropriate to cultural context-to improve well-being for adults in advanced age
Older people's views about ageing well in a rural community
Maintaining physical, psychological and social wellbeing is integral to older adults being able to age well in their community. Therefore, an environment that facilitates and supports ageing well is imperative. The aim of this study was to explore the views of older people about their preparation for ageing well in a rural community. Forty-nine community-dwelling older people aged between 65 and 93 years participated in a semi-structured and digi…
Resettling amidst a mood of loneliness: Later-life Chinese, Indian and Korean immigrants in New Zealand
This project was a secondary hermeneutic analysis of text expressing loneliness or social isolation, gathered in an original study exploring how Chinese, Indian and Korean late-life immigrants participated in New Zealand society. It utilised the 24 interview recordings, initially transcribed in participants’ first languages from nine focus group and 15 individual interviews, and translated into English for analysis. Hermeneutic methods were used …
Exploring the lived experience of migrants dying away from their country of origin
Promoting Age-Friendly Communities: An Integrative Review of Inclusion for Older Immigrants
Strengthening Community: Older Asian Immigrants’ Contributions to New Zealand Society
The new age of ageing: How society needs to change
The new age of ageing: How society needs to change." Journal of Occupational Science, 24(2), pp. 252–253
Late-life Asian immigrants managing wellness through contributing to socially embedded networks
New Zealand’s political, civic, health and social institutions have been criticised as being ill-prepared to serve the health and social needs of the country’s increasingly diverse ageing population. This grounded theory study examined how late-life Asian immigrants participate in community to influence their subjective health. Bilingual Chinese, Indian, and Korean local intermediaries and research assistants were engaged as collaborative researc…
Research as relationship: Engaging with ethical intent
This international research collaborative undertook what became a decade long process to look at meanings of celebratory food related occupations of elder women across three cultures in New Zealand, Thailand and the United States. Cross-cultural research comes with inherent ethical issues related to cultural lenses, use of instruments and potential biases of investigators. The many views of what cross cultural research is and how it might be done…
Ethnic and Gender Differences in Preferred Activities among Māori and non-Māori of Advanced age in New Zealand
Work and the older person: Increasing longevity and well-being
Work and the older person: Increasing longevity and well-being." Journal of Occupational Science, 23(3), p. 398
Older Asian immigrants’ participation as cultural enfranchisement
Research evidence suggests that older immigrants’ resettlement in a new host country is hindered by limited opportunities to engage within communities in deeply familiar ways, using culturally meaningful occupations. A recent study concluded that older Asian immigrants contribute to social capital; yet there is little understanding of how they go about doing so. This New Zealand study examined how older Chinese, Indian, and Korean immigrants’ par…
Cross-Cultural Understandings of Festival Food-Related Activities for Older Women in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Eastern Kentucky, USA and Auckland, New Zealand
Being Occupied with What Matters in Advanced Age
This article illuminates one key finding of an interpretive phenomenological study that brought an occupational lens to exploring how elders experience being aged in their everyday lives. Fifteen community-dwelling, New Zealand elders aged 71 to 97, 4 Māori and 11 non-Māori, were purposively recruited. Data were gathered through individual interviews focused on stories of everyday moments and photographs of the participant's hands while engaged i…
Respecting regional culture in an international multi-site study: A Derived Etic Method
In order to look across three cultures at the meanings of celebratory food preparation for older women, researchers in Thailand, America and New Zealand collaboratively designed a derived etic method that respected each culture while allowing cultural comparison of food-related occupations. Anticipating differences in practices at each site, the inquiry broadly addressed who was involved, the tasks of preparing, sharing and offering food, and the…
History in the Making: Older Canadian Women's Food-Related Practices
Many societies have traditionally considered cooking nourishing food for the family to be a natural occupation of women. This article outlines the findings of a small-scale, interpretive study focusing on older Canadian women's participation in planning, preparing, serving, and sharing food for Christmas. The 20 participants, who each took part in one of three focus group discussions, ranged in age from 65 to 93. They were recruited through the W…
Older New Zealand Women Doing the Work of Christmas: A Recipe for Identity Formation
Christmas, because it is rather a sentimental time you tend to look for the familiar and go back into what you remember in your childhood.' In the process of preparing family favourites or trying exciting new foods at Christmas, older New Zealand women construct self and family identities. This paper presents the New Zealand findings from an interpretive, multi-site research project exploring older women's experiences of food occupations at Chris…
Offerings: Food Traditions of Older Thai Women at Songkran
“It is deep within our hearts that we have to do this.” Such words reflect the potency of subjective and social meaning of food occupations for older Thai women at Songkran, the traditional Thai New Year. This paper presents the Thai findings from a multi‐site research project exploring older women's experiences of food occupations at Songkran in Chiang Mai, Thailand; and Christmas in Auckland, New Zealand, and Kentucky, USA. Narrative data for t…
Storymaking and Storytelling: Making Sense of Living with Multiple Sclerosis
This paper presents one interpretive element of a qualitative study aimed at understanding the lived experience of women with multiple sclerosis. Data were gathered from 16 women by way of a focus group interview (six women) and ten semi‐structured individual interviews. Symbolic interactionism was used to build a theoretical foundation for interpreting the day‐to‐day dynamic relationship between the person, the symbolic meaning of their illness,…
The Meaning of Cooking and Recipe Work for Older Thai and New Zealand Women
In spite of disparate cultural knowledge and beliefs, and diversity of individual practices, the food‐centred occupations of older New Zealand and Thai women share common meanings. When women talk about preparing, sharing and giving foods at Christmas and Songkran, their stories uncover dimensions of meaning that span time and geography. The meanings encompass the symbolism of celebratory food, transmission of tradition and recipes from grandmoth…
The Meaning of Cooking and Recipe Work for Older Thai and New Zealand Women
In spite of disparate cultural knowledge and beliefs, and diversity of individual practices, the food‐centred occupations of older New Zealand and Thai women share common meanings. When women talk about preparing, sharing and giving foods at Christmas and Songkran, their stories uncover dimensions of meaning that span time and geography. The meanings encompass the symbolism of celebratory food, transmission of tradition and recipes from grandmoth…
Older New Zealand Women Doing the Work of Christmas: A Recipe for Identity Formation
Christmas, because it is rather a sentimental time you tend to look for the familiar and go back into what you remember in your childhood.' In the process of preparing family favourites or trying exciting new foods at Christmas, older New Zealand women construct self and family identities. This paper presents the New Zealand findings from an interpretive, multi-site research project exploring older women's experiences of food occupations at Chris…
Offerings: Food Traditions of Older Thai Women at Songkran
“It is deep within our hearts that we have to do this.” Such words reflect the potency of subjective and social meaning of food occupations for older Thai women at Songkran, the traditional Thai New Year. This paper presents the Thai findings from a multi‐site research project exploring older women's experiences of food occupations at Songkran in Chiang Mai, Thailand; and Christmas in Auckland, New Zealand, and Kentucky, USA. Narrative data for t…
Being Occupied with What Matters in Advanced Age
This article illuminates one key finding of an interpretive phenomenological study that brought an occupational lens to exploring how elders experience being aged in their everyday lives. Fifteen community-dwelling, New Zealand elders aged 71 to 97, 4 Māori and 11 non-Māori, were purposively recruited. Data were gathered through individual interviews focused on stories of everyday moments and photographs of the participant's hands while engaged i…
Late-life Asian immigrants managing wellness through contributing to socially embedded networks
New Zealand’s political, civic, health and social institutions have been criticised as being ill-prepared to serve the health and social needs of the country’s increasingly diverse ageing population. This grounded theory study examined how late-life Asian immigrants participate in community to influence their subjective health. Bilingual Chinese, Indian, and Korean local intermediaries and research assistants were engaged as collaborative researc…
Older Asian immigrants’ participation as cultural enfranchisement
Research evidence suggests that older immigrants’ resettlement in a new host country is hindered by limited opportunities to engage within communities in deeply familiar ways, using culturally meaningful occupations. A recent study concluded that older Asian immigrants contribute to social capital; yet there is little understanding of how they go about doing so. This New Zealand study examined how older Chinese, Indian, and Korean immigrants’ par…
Resettling amidst a mood of loneliness: Later-life Chinese, Indian and Korean immigrants in New Zealand
This project was a secondary hermeneutic analysis of text expressing loneliness or social isolation, gathered in an original study exploring how Chinese, Indian and Korean late-life immigrants participated in New Zealand society. It utilised the 24 interview recordings, initially transcribed in participants’ first languages from nine focus group and 15 individual interviews, and translated into English for analysis. Hermeneutic methods were used …
History in the Making: Older Canadian Women's Food-Related Practices
Many societies have traditionally considered cooking nourishing food for the family to be a natural occupation of women. This article outlines the findings of a small-scale, interpretive study focusing on older Canadian women's participation in planning, preparing, serving, and sharing food for Christmas. The 20 participants, who each took part in one of three focus group discussions, ranged in age from 65 to 93. They were recruited through the W…
Storymaking and Storytelling: Making Sense of Living with Multiple Sclerosis
This paper presents one interpretive element of a qualitative study aimed at understanding the lived experience of women with multiple sclerosis. Data were gathered from 16 women by way of a focus group interview (six women) and ten semi‐structured individual interviews. Symbolic interactionism was used to build a theoretical foundation for interpreting the day‐to‐day dynamic relationship between the person, the symbolic meaning of their illness,…
Cross-Cultural Understandings of Festival Food-Related Activities for Older Women in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Eastern Kentucky, USA and Auckland, New Zealand
Older people's views about ageing well in a rural community
Maintaining physical, psychological and social wellbeing is integral to older adults being able to age well in their community. Therefore, an environment that facilitates and supports ageing well is imperative. The aim of this study was to explore the views of older people about their preparation for ageing well in a rural community. Forty-nine community-dwelling older people aged between 65 and 93 years participated in a semi-structured and digi…
Ethnic and Gender Differences in Preferred Activities among Māori and non-Māori of Advanced age in New Zealand
Respecting regional culture in an international multi-site study: A Derived Etic Method
In order to look across three cultures at the meanings of celebratory food preparation for older women, researchers in Thailand, America and New Zealand collaboratively designed a derived etic method that respected each culture while allowing cultural comparison of food-related occupations. Anticipating differences in practices at each site, the inquiry broadly addressed who was involved, the tasks of preparing, sharing and offering food, and the…
Research as relationship: Engaging with ethical intent
This international research collaborative undertook what became a decade long process to look at meanings of celebratory food related occupations of elder women across three cultures in New Zealand, Thailand and the United States. Cross-cultural research comes with inherent ethical issues related to cultural lenses, use of instruments and potential biases of investigators. The many views of what cross cultural research is and how it might be done…
The Meaning of Cooking and Recipe Work for Older Thai and New Zealand Women
In spite of disparate cultural knowledge and beliefs, and diversity of individual practices, the food‐centred occupations of older New Zealand and Thai women share common meanings. When women talk about preparing, sharing and giving foods at Christmas and Songkran, their stories uncover dimensions of meaning that span time and geography. The meanings encompass the symbolism of celebratory food, transmission of tradition and recipes from grandmoth…
Storymaking and Storytelling: Making Sense of Living with Multiple Sclerosis
This paper presents one interpretive element of a qualitative study aimed at understanding the lived experience of women with multiple sclerosis. Data were gathered from 16 women by way of a focus group interview (six women) and ten semi‐structured individual interviews. Symbolic interactionism was used to build a theoretical foundation for interpreting the day‐to‐day dynamic relationship between the person, the symbolic meaning of their illness,…
Offerings: Food Traditions of Older Thai Women at Songkran
“It is deep within our hearts that we have to do this.” Such words reflect the potency of subjective and social meaning of food occupations for older Thai women at Songkran, the traditional Thai New Year. This paper presents the Thai findings from a multi‐site research project exploring older women's experiences of food occupations at Songkran in Chiang Mai, Thailand; and Christmas in Auckland, New Zealand, and Kentucky, USA. Narrative data for t…
Older New Zealand Women Doing the Work of Christmas: A Recipe for Identity Formation
Christmas, because it is rather a sentimental time you tend to look for the familiar and go back into what you remember in your childhood.' In the process of preparing family favourites or trying exciting new foods at Christmas, older New Zealand women construct self and family identities. This paper presents the New Zealand findings from an interpretive, multi-site research project exploring older women's experiences of food occupations at Chris…
History in the Making: Older Canadian Women's Food-Related Practices
Many societies have traditionally considered cooking nourishing food for the family to be a natural occupation of women. This article outlines the findings of a small-scale, interpretive study focusing on older Canadian women's participation in planning, preparing, serving, and sharing food for Christmas. The 20 participants, who each took part in one of three focus group discussions, ranged in age from 65 to 93. They were recruited through the W…
Respecting regional culture in an international multi-site study: A Derived Etic Method
In order to look across three cultures at the meanings of celebratory food preparation for older women, researchers in Thailand, America and New Zealand collaboratively designed a derived etic method that respected each culture while allowing cultural comparison of food-related occupations. Anticipating differences in practices at each site, the inquiry broadly addressed who was involved, the tasks of preparing, sharing and offering food, and the…
Being Occupied with What Matters in Advanced Age
This article illuminates one key finding of an interpretive phenomenological study that brought an occupational lens to exploring how elders experience being aged in their everyday lives. Fifteen community-dwelling, New Zealand elders aged 71 to 97, 4 Māori and 11 non-Māori, were purposively recruited. Data were gathered through individual interviews focused on stories of everyday moments and photographs of the participant's hands while engaged i…
Cross-Cultural Understandings of Festival Food-Related Activities for Older Women in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Eastern Kentucky, USA and Auckland, New Zealand
Work and the older person: Increasing longevity and well-being
Work and the older person: Increasing longevity and well-being." Journal of Occupational Science, 23(3), p. 398
Older Asian immigrants’ participation as cultural enfranchisement
Research evidence suggests that older immigrants’ resettlement in a new host country is hindered by limited opportunities to engage within communities in deeply familiar ways, using culturally meaningful occupations. A recent study concluded that older Asian immigrants contribute to social capital; yet there is little understanding of how they go about doing so. This New Zealand study examined how older Chinese, Indian, and Korean immigrants’ par…
The new age of ageing: How society needs to change
The new age of ageing: How society needs to change." Journal of Occupational Science, 24(2), pp. 252–253
Late-life Asian immigrants managing wellness through contributing to socially embedded networks
New Zealand’s political, civic, health and social institutions have been criticised as being ill-prepared to serve the health and social needs of the country’s increasingly diverse ageing population. This grounded theory study examined how late-life Asian immigrants participate in community to influence their subjective health. Bilingual Chinese, Indian, and Korean local intermediaries and research assistants were engaged as collaborative researc…
Research as relationship: Engaging with ethical intent
This international research collaborative undertook what became a decade long process to look at meanings of celebratory food related occupations of elder women across three cultures in New Zealand, Thailand and the United States. Cross-cultural research comes with inherent ethical issues related to cultural lenses, use of instruments and potential biases of investigators. The many views of what cross cultural research is and how it might be done…
Ethnic and Gender Differences in Preferred Activities among Māori and non-Māori of Advanced age in New Zealand
Exploring the lived experience of migrants dying away from their country of origin
Promoting Age-Friendly Communities: An Integrative Review of Inclusion for Older Immigrants
Strengthening Community: Older Asian Immigrants’ Contributions to New Zealand Society
Resettling amidst a mood of loneliness: Later-life Chinese, Indian and Korean immigrants in New Zealand
This project was a secondary hermeneutic analysis of text expressing loneliness or social isolation, gathered in an original study exploring how Chinese, Indian and Korean late-life immigrants participated in New Zealand society. It utilised the 24 interview recordings, initially transcribed in participants’ first languages from nine focus group and 15 individual interviews, and translated into English for analysis. Hermeneutic methods were used …
Older people's views about ageing well in a rural community
Maintaining physical, psychological and social wellbeing is integral to older adults being able to age well in their community. Therefore, an environment that facilitates and supports ageing well is imperative. The aim of this study was to explore the views of older people about their preparation for ageing well in a rural community. Forty-nine community-dwelling older people aged between 65 and 93 years participated in a semi-structured and digi…
Prevalence of Loneliness and Its Association With General and Health-Related Measures of Subjective Well-Being in a Longitudinal Bicultural Cohort of Older Adults in Advanced Age Living in New Zealand…
Our findings of adverse impacts on subjective well-being corroborate other evidence, highlighting loneliness as a prime candidate for intervention-appropriate to cultural context-to improve well-being for adults in advanced age
Using Co-design Methods With Chinese Late-Life Immigrants to Translate Mixed-Method Findings to Social Resources
Mainland Chinese born in the 1940s-1950s have experienced unique socio-cultural circumstances that have shaped their late-life immigration experiences. Little is known about what this population perceives would reduce their loneliness. This study aimed to investigate the role of co-design in the development of community-based resources/services for ameliorating the loneliness of Chinese late-life immigrants. Eight co-researchers completed three c…
The influence of spirituality and religion on health and well-being for older Pacific People
The influence of spirituality and religion on the health and well-being of older adults has gained considerable attention as older adults worldwide continue to live long, active lives. This study explores the influence of spirituality and religion on the health and well-being of older Pacific people living in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Using the principles of a Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach and talanoa with 39 Tongan, 42 Cook Island Mā…
Sociology (22 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Gerontology (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (8 works) · Immigration (7 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (7 works)