Norah Keating
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 292340 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Norah Keating |
| PRENOMES | Norah |
| SOBRENOME | Keating |
| ASSINATURA | KEATING N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7317-4288 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 147 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Care for Older Adults with Chronic Health Problems
Providing care for older adults involves tasks carried out by and relationships with family, friends, and/or paid carers. In light of population aging, and the retrenchment or absence of social welfare to support unpaid carers, the vast majority of care for older adults is provided by carers who are members of the family or friends. Understanding the cultural context of families, the changes they face, and caregiving expectations and experiences …
Experiences of family carers of older people in marginalised communities in Namibia
Namibia’s lengthy colonial history and current high levels of inequality foreshadow care in the context of poverty and marginalisation, and within families that are diverse and whose care capacities are poorly understood. Focus group interviews with family carers of older people in two marginalised communities provide insights into their experiences of care. We highlight three findings: first, contexts of care perpetuate and entrench marginalisat…
Family beliefs about care for older people in Central, East, Southern and West Africa and Latin America
The United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing (2020–30) states that reliance on family care alone is unsustainable. This scoping review synthesises knowledge on family beliefs about care for older people in Central, East, Southern and West Africa and Latin America. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines were followed, and 35 articles published from 2010 to 2020 were included. The review highlights the chal…
Rural Communities in Cesw Africa and Latin America
Toward healthy aging in Latin America and the Caribbean
Sustainable care
The term ‘care crisis’ is invoked to denote chronic system failures and bad outcomes for the people involved. We present a comprehensive wellbeing framework and illustrate its practicality with evidence of negative outcomes for those who provide care. We find evidence of substantial material and relational wellbeing failures for family carers and for care workers, while there has been little interest in carers’ views of their ability to live the …
Trajectories of family care over the lifecourse
In the midst of a ‘care crisis’, attention has turned again to families who are viewed both as untapped care resources and as disappearing ones. Within this apparent policy/demographic impasse, we test empirically theorised trajectories of family care, creating evidence of diverse patterns of care across the lifecourse. The study sample, drawn from a Statistics Canada national survey of family care, comprised all Canadians aged 65 and older who h…
Care to Older Adults with Chronic Health Problems
Care to older adults with chronic health problems or disabilities has two components: “care as doing” involves providing tasks and services to the older person; “care as being in relationship” involves changes in relationships and networks in the context of doing care. Family caregivers provide care because of a personal relationship with the cared‐for person; care workers because of an agency–client relationship. Changing policy landscapes have …
Loneliness of older black South African women subjected to forcible relocation
Background: A cohort of older black South African women, forcibly relocated during apartheid, has grown old in these places. Even after 50 years, residents in a rural township expressed no connection to place and ruptured intergenerational relations. Their sense of community was based almost exclusively on their links with others who shared their history of relocation.Objective: This article seeks to understand loneliness of a group of older wome…
Life course trajectories of family care
More than 30 years ago, Elder theorised multiple life-course trajectories in domains such as family and work, punctuated by transitions that create the structure and rhythm of individual lives. We argue that in the context of population ageing, family care should be added as a life-course domain. We conceptualise life courses of family care with core elements of ‘care as doing’ and ‘care as being in relationship’, creating hypothetical family car…
Marriage after the transition to stroke
In health and chronic illness, satisfying marriages promote wellbeing and life satisfaction, yet stroke research has focused on either the stroke survivor as the patient or the spouse as a care-giver. Using Pope, Mays and Popay's framework for synthesising qualitative and quantitative methods, we conducted a systematic review and synthesis of 39 peer-reviewed studies to determine what happens to marital relationships after one partner has suffere…
Social exclusion of older persons
As a concept, social exclusion has considerable potential to explain and respond to disadvantage in later life. However, in the context of ageing populations, the construct remains ambiguous. A disjointed evidence-base, spread across disparate disciplines, compounds the challenge of developing a coherent understanding of exclusion in older age. This article addresses this research deficit by presenting the findings of a two-stage scoping review e…
Children’s spirituality and the practice of meditation in Irish primary schools
This paper uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore the child’s experience of meditation in Irish primary schools and its impact on children’s spirituality. Using a phenomenological, hermeneutic, mystagogical methodology, it describes how children experience the practice of meditation, the benefits they consider they gain from it and the nature of its impact, if any, on their spirituality. Seventy children, aged 7 to 11, were interviewed. Th…
Social consequences of family care of adults
The power of social connections is a contemporary focus of research across world regions. Yet, evidence of challenges to carers’ social relationships remains fragmented and underexplored. We conducted a scoping review of 66 articles to create a state-of-knowledge review of the social consequences of caring. Findings indicate evidence of consequences for relationships with care receivers, with other family members and with broader social networks.…
The Impact of Eldercare on Adult Children’s Health and Employment in Transitional China
How Children Describe the Fruits of Meditation
Using an interdisciplinary approach and a phenomenological, hermeneutic, mystagogical methodology, this paper explores how children describe the deep fruits of meditation in their lives. Seventy children, aged 7 to 11, from four Irish primary schools were interviewed; all had engaged in meditation as a whole-school practice for at least two-years beforehand. The study sought to elicit from children their experience, if any, of the transcendent in…
Developing Agreed and Accepted Understandings of Spirituality and Spiritual Care Concepts among Members of an Innovative Spirituality Interest Group in the Republic of Ireland
A Spirituality Interest Group (SIG) was set up in in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland (ROI), in March 2013. This paper reports on some of the journey and requirements involved in developing the group. It highlights the essential work of establishing agreed understandings in an objective way in order for the group to move forward with action. These agreed understandings have contributed to the group'…
Understanding the influence of community characteristics on wellness for rural older adults
Loneliness of Older Immigrant Groups in Canada
This study aimed to explore the loneliness of several groups of older immigrants in Canada compared to native-born older adults. Data from the Canadian General Social Survey, Cycle 22 (N older adults = 3,692) were used. The dependent variable is the 6 item De Jong Gierveld loneliness scale. Determinants of loneliness included country of birth, ethnic background (cultural context); belongingness (community context) and social networks (social cont…
Elder Care
Elder care is assistance provided to an older adult because of that person's chronic health problem or disability. Care tasks may include household work, indoor and outdoor home maintenance, banking and financial management, personal care, and care management. In developed countries, elder care is most often provided to those in advanced age as the onset of age‐related chronic illnesses is prevalent after the age of 75. Most people in residential…
Countryside Connections
(Re)creating community
This article explores sense of community with a group of older African women, who were forcibly relocated during apartheid. The situation of a marginalised group, with a history of disconnection from younger generations and from place, provides an opportunity to consider the relevance of community in later life. The research was conducted at a day centre for older people in the North West Province of South Africa, more than 50 years after forced …
Ageing and Community
Population ageing is one of the major contemporary issues facing societies across the world. Originally framed as a major social and economic challenge, demographic ageing is now beginning to be seen as offering huge potential to individuals as well as to their communities. It is this positive potential that we explore in this issue by utilising two key disciplinary approaches—social gerontology and social/community psychology. In this introducti…
Characteristics and contributions of non-kin carers of older people
Research on informal care-giving has largely neglected the contributions of non-kin carers. This paper investigated the characteristics and contributions of non-kin who care for older adults with a long-term health problem, and investigated friends and neighbours as distinct categories of care providers. Using data from 324 non-kin carers in the 1996 General Social Survey of Canada, this study compared individual and relationship characteristics,…
Critical Reflection, Spirituality and Professional Practice
At the outset, Cheryl Hunt, a retired academic in the field of community education, clarifies that her purpose in writing this exceptional book was to show how reflections on everyday practice, par
Loneliness of Older Immigrant Groups in Canada
This study aimed to explore the loneliness of several groups of older immigrants in Canada compared to native-born older adults. Data from the Canadian General Social Survey, Cycle 22 (N older adults = 3,692) were used. The dependent variable is the 6 item De Jong Gierveld loneliness scale. Determinants of loneliness included country of birth, ethnic background (cultural context); belongingness (community context) and social networks (social cont…
Understanding the caring capacity of informal networks of frail seniors
Population ageing and constraints on public sector spending for older people with long-term health problems have led policy makers to turn to the social networks of older people, or the ‘informal sector’, as a source of long-term care. An important question arising from this policy shift is whether these social networks have the resources to sustain the high levels of care that can be required by older people with chronic health problems. In the …
Understanding the influence of community characteristics on wellness for rural older adults
Characteristics and contributions of non-kin carers of older people
Research on informal care-giving has largely neglected the contributions of non-kin carers. This paper investigated the characteristics and contributions of non-kin who care for older adults with a long-term health problem, and investigated friends and neighbours as distinct categories of care providers. Using data from 324 non-kin carers in the 1996 General Social Survey of Canada, this study compared individual and relationship characteristics,…
Life course trajectories of family care
More than 30 years ago, Elder theorised multiple life-course trajectories in domains such as family and work, punctuated by transitions that create the structure and rhythm of individual lives. We argue that in the context of population ageing, family care should be added as a life-course domain. We conceptualise life courses of family care with core elements of ‘care as doing’ and ‘care as being in relationship’, creating hypothetical family car…
Bridging Policy and Research in Eldercare
Norah C. Keating, Janet E. Fast, Ingrid A. Connidis, Margaret Penning, Janice Keefe, Bridging Policy and Research in Eldercare, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 23, Special Joint Issue: Aging / Vieillissement (Spring, 1997), pp. 22-41
Social Capital and the Care Networks of Frail Seniors
Social capital has been a key framework in conceptualizing the place of social ties in quality of life. Families have not been among groups of interest in social capital research. Yet within the context of research and public policy on aging, the contemporary discourse on families and care is congruent with social capital assumptions. In this paper, we draw on social capital literature to frame our understanding of the social capital inherent in …
Getting Into It
Researchers have challenged the stereotype that farm women's roles and influence are primarily domestic by documenting the number of women's on-farm roles. This study extends this approach by considering the interrelationships among women's roles and influence in reproductive and productive domains. A qualitative research method was used to investigate women's ways of describing the range of their on-farm roles and the process of entry into and e…
Being in Control
The purpose of this study was to understand the process of caregiving from the perspective of a group of family caregivers of relatives suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Grounded theory was used to elicit caregiver's experiences. Multiple unstructured interviews were conducted with 10 family caregivers who had placed their relative in an institutional setting. The findings yielded a five-stage model of gaining and relinquishing control of careg…
Sustainable care
The term ‘care crisis’ is invoked to denote chronic system failures and bad outcomes for the people involved. We present a comprehensive wellbeing framework and illustrate its practicality with evidence of negative outcomes for those who provide care. We find evidence of substantial material and relational wellbeing failures for family carers and for care workers, while there has been little interest in carers’ views of their ability to live the …
Seniors' experiences of client-centred residential care
The philosophy concerning long-term care for frail seniors has shifted from a provider-driven, medical model toward a more client-centred, social model. While this philosophy emphasises the decision-making abilities of clients and respect for their values and preferences, evidence suggests that there are difficulties in understanding and implementing the philosophy. Qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted with residents of adult family liv…
Trajectories of family care over the lifecourse
In the midst of a ‘care crisis’, attention has turned again to families who are viewed both as untapped care resources and as disappearing ones. Within this apparent policy/demographic impasse, we test empirically theorised trajectories of family care, creating evidence of diverse patterns of care across the lifecourse. The study sample, drawn from a Statistics Canada national survey of family care, comprised all Canadians aged 65 and older who h…
The Impact of Eldercare on Adult Children’s Health and Employment in Transitional China
(Re)creating community
This article explores sense of community with a group of older African women, who were forcibly relocated during apartheid. The situation of a marginalised group, with a history of disconnection from younger generations and from place, provides an opportunity to consider the relevance of community in later life. The research was conducted at a day centre for older people in the North West Province of South Africa, more than 50 years after forced …
Ageing and Community
Population ageing is one of the major contemporary issues facing societies across the world. Originally framed as a major social and economic challenge, demographic ageing is now beginning to be seen as offering huge potential to individuals as well as to their communities. It is this positive potential that we explore in this issue by utilising two key disciplinary approaches—social gerontology and social/community psychology. In this introducti…
The Differential Importance of Personal and Environmental Resources to Older Canadians
S'appuyant sur le système social de production et sur la théorie du capital social, les auteurs questionnent l'importance spécifique des ressources personnelles et environnementales sur la satisfaction, en utilisant le temps, la santé, la situation financière et les activités principales comme variables. Les données sur les Canadiens et les Canadiennes âgés de 60 ans et plus ( n =5,986) ayant participéà l'Enquête sociale générale — engagement soc…
Farm women/farm work
Developing Agreed and Accepted Understandings of Spirituality and Spiritual Care Concepts among Members of an Innovative Spirituality Interest Group in the Republic of Ireland
A Spirituality Interest Group (SIG) was set up in in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland (ROI), in March 2013. This paper reports on some of the journey and requirements involved in developing the group. It highlights the essential work of establishing agreed understandings in an objective way in order for the group to move forward with action. These agreed understandings have contributed to the group'…
Current thinking in gerontology in Canada
The beginning of the new millennium seems a good time to reflect upon issues in gerontology as many Western countries are experiencing population ageing and the challenges it entails. In comparison to Europe's 14 per cent average (Population Reference Bureau 2000), Canada is a relatively young country with only about 12 per cent of the population over age 65 (Statistics Canada 1999). Nonetheless, population ageing is a driving force in Canadian g…
Rural Retirement Migration
Predictors of Older Adults’ Capacity for Medication Management in a Self-Medication Program
The direct effects of cognition and medication regimen complexity were important predictors of medication management capacity
Client-centred, community-based care for frail seniors
Compared with nursing home care, community care, which is often viewed in Canada as care at home, is assumed to be best for older adults with chronic disease or disabilities since it is seen as client-focused and less costly. As the number of frail seniors living in the community increases, governments in Canada seek to provide alternate models of nursing home care. As part of a larger initiative meant to increase the scope of community programme…
The Sunshine Widows
Farm women/farm work
Being in Control
The purpose of this study was to understand the process of caregiving from the perspective of a group of family caregivers of relatives suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Grounded theory was used to elicit caregiver's experiences. Multiple unstructured interviews were conducted with 10 family caregivers who had placed their relative in an institutional setting. The findings yielded a five-stage model of gaining and relinquishing control of careg…
Getting Into It
Researchers have challenged the stereotype that farm women's roles and influence are primarily domestic by documenting the number of women's on-farm roles. This study extends this approach by considering the interrelationships among women's roles and influence in reproductive and productive domains. A qualitative research method was used to investigate women's ways of describing the range of their on-farm roles and the process of entry into and e…
Bridging Policy and Research in Eldercare
Norah C. Keating, Janet E. Fast, Ingrid A. Connidis, Margaret Penning, Janice Keefe, Bridging Policy and Research in Eldercare, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 23, Special Joint Issue: Aging / Vieillissement (Spring, 1997), pp. 22-41
Seniors' experiences of client-centred residential care
The philosophy concerning long-term care for frail seniors has shifted from a provider-driven, medical model toward a more client-centred, social model. While this philosophy emphasises the decision-making abilities of clients and respect for their values and preferences, evidence suggests that there are difficulties in understanding and implementing the philosophy. Qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted with residents of adult family liv…
Current thinking in gerontology in Canada
The beginning of the new millennium seems a good time to reflect upon issues in gerontology as many Western countries are experiencing population ageing and the challenges it entails. In comparison to Europe's 14 per cent average (Population Reference Bureau 2000), Canada is a relatively young country with only about 12 per cent of the population over age 65 (Statistics Canada 1999). Nonetheless, population ageing is a driving force in Canadian g…
Predictors of Older Adults’ Capacity for Medication Management in a Self-Medication Program
The direct effects of cognition and medication regimen complexity were important predictors of medication management capacity
Client-centred, community-based care for frail seniors
Compared with nursing home care, community care, which is often viewed in Canada as care at home, is assumed to be best for older adults with chronic disease or disabilities since it is seen as client-focused and less costly. As the number of frail seniors living in the community increases, governments in Canada seek to provide alternate models of nursing home care. As part of a larger initiative meant to increase the scope of community programme…
Understanding the caring capacity of informal networks of frail seniors
Population ageing and constraints on public sector spending for older people with long-term health problems have led policy makers to turn to the social networks of older people, or the ‘informal sector’, as a source of long-term care. An important question arising from this policy shift is whether these social networks have the resources to sustain the high levels of care that can be required by older people with chronic health problems. In the …
Elder Care
Elder care is assistance provided to a senior because of that senior's chronic health problem or disability. Tasks include household work, indoor and outdoor home maintenance, banking and financial management, personal care, and care management (Keating et al. 1999). The term has been part of the gerontology lexicon for many years. Its origins lie in the description of the tasks provided by formal or paid caregivers (i.e., nurses or home support …
Rural Ageing
Social Capital and the Care Networks of Frail Seniors
Social capital has been a key framework in conceptualizing the place of social ties in quality of life. Families have not been among groups of interest in social capital research. Yet within the context of research and public policy on aging, the contemporary discourse on families and care is congruent with social capital assumptions. In this paper, we draw on social capital literature to frame our understanding of the social capital inherent in …
The Differential Importance of Personal and Environmental Resources to Older Canadians
S'appuyant sur le système social de production et sur la théorie du capital social, les auteurs questionnent l'importance spécifique des ressources personnelles et environnementales sur la satisfaction, en utilisant le temps, la santé, la situation financière et les activités principales comme variables. Les données sur les Canadiens et les Canadiennes âgés de 60 ans et plus ( n =5,986) ayant participéà l'Enquête sociale générale — engagement soc…
Rural Retirement Migration
Conceptualizing Age-Friendly Communities
Sur le front politique et des lignes de conduite, l’intérêt a augmenté pour rendre les communautés plus « amies des ainés », cette tendance est restée constante depuis que l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé a lancé son projet « Réseau mondial des Villes-amies des aînés. » Nous conceptualisons les communautés amies des aînés en nous appuyons sur le cadre de l’OMS et l’application d’un point de vue écologique. Ainsi nous visons à rendre explicite …
Characteristics and contributions of non-kin carers of older people
Research on informal care-giving has largely neglected the contributions of non-kin carers. This paper investigated the characteristics and contributions of non-kin who care for older adults with a long-term health problem, and investigated friends and neighbours as distinct categories of care providers. Using data from 324 non-kin carers in the 1996 General Social Survey of Canada, this study compared individual and relationship characteristics,…
Countryside Connections
(Re)creating community
This article explores sense of community with a group of older African women, who were forcibly relocated during apartheid. The situation of a marginalised group, with a history of disconnection from younger generations and from place, provides an opportunity to consider the relevance of community in later life. The research was conducted at a day centre for older people in the North West Province of South Africa, more than 50 years after forced …
Ageing and Community
Population ageing is one of the major contemporary issues facing societies across the world. Originally framed as a major social and economic challenge, demographic ageing is now beginning to be seen as offering huge potential to individuals as well as to their communities. It is this positive potential that we explore in this issue by utilising two key disciplinary approaches—social gerontology and social/community psychology. In this introducti…
Understanding the influence of community characteristics on wellness for rural older adults
Loneliness of Older Immigrant Groups in Canada
This study aimed to explore the loneliness of several groups of older immigrants in Canada compared to native-born older adults. Data from the Canadian General Social Survey, Cycle 22 (N older adults = 3,692) were used. The dependent variable is the 6 item De Jong Gierveld loneliness scale. Determinants of loneliness included country of birth, ethnic background (cultural context); belongingness (community context) and social networks (social cont…
Elder Care
Elder care is assistance provided to an older adult because of that person's chronic health problem or disability. Care tasks may include household work, indoor and outdoor home maintenance, banking and financial management, personal care, and care management. In developed countries, elder care is most often provided to those in advanced age as the onset of age‐related chronic illnesses is prevalent after the age of 75. Most people in residential…
Developing Agreed and Accepted Understandings of Spirituality and Spiritual Care Concepts among Members of an Innovative Spirituality Interest Group in the Republic of Ireland
A Spirituality Interest Group (SIG) was set up in in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland (ROI), in March 2013. This paper reports on some of the journey and requirements involved in developing the group. It highlights the essential work of establishing agreed understandings in an objective way in order for the group to move forward with action. These agreed understandings have contributed to the group'…
Social exclusion of older persons
As a concept, social exclusion has considerable potential to explain and respond to disadvantage in later life. However, in the context of ageing populations, the construct remains ambiguous. A disjointed evidence-base, spread across disparate disciplines, compounds the challenge of developing a coherent understanding of exclusion in older age. This article addresses this research deficit by presenting the findings of a two-stage scoping review e…
Medicine (28 obras) · Sociology (26 obras) · Psychology (25 obras) · Political science (22 obras) · Gerontology (17 obras) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (17 obras) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (15 obras) · Geography (14 obras) · Health disparities and outcomes (13 obras) · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (10 obras)