Disaster awareness and preparedness among older adults in Canada regarding floods, wildfires, and earthquakes

E Bogdan, R Krueger, J Wright, K Woods… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Older adults are significantly impacted by natural hazards and disasters that are
exacerbated by climate change. Understanding their awareness and preparedness is …

Religiosity and social support predict resilience in older adults after a flood

KE Cherry, MR Calamia, EM Elliott… - … Journal of Aging …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
In this study, we examined religiosity and social support as predictors of resilience after a
devastating flood. Three flood exposure groups of primarily middle-aged and older adults …

A comparative study of multi-ethnic perspectives on aging in Malaysian newspapers

LF Yang, PR Fernandez, LPG Tan - Journalism, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Media plays an important role in representing cultural beliefs about aging, and the influence
of cultural and societal factors on the portrayal of aging is well documented. Malaysia, with …

Ageism, a Remarkable Election, and the Journalism Objectivity Norm

KW Chen, NP Lewis… - Journalism & Mass …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Age, rarely examined in journalism studies, became salient in 2018 in Malaysia when a 92-
year-old, Mahathir Mohamad, unexpectedly became the world's oldest elected head of state …

Longitudinal assessment of mental health after a flood: roles of social support, hope, recovery stressors, and prior lifetime trauma

KE Cherry, LR Miller, PJ Bordes, MR Calamia… - Aging & Mental …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Objectives Severe weather events have mental health consequences for survivors that may
change over time. We assessed post-flood mental health longitudinally in three groups of …

“We are blessed to live in the countryside”: Unpacking Rural and Small-Town Older Adults' Resilient Nature in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic

N Nurain, CF Chung, C Caldeira… - Proceedings of the 7th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has threatened disproportionately rural older adults' health and
well-being as they suffer from unique social exclusion due to a lack of services, such as …

Unfolding the Experiences and Preparedness Mechanism of Senior Citizens in the Wake of Disaster: Towards a Disaster Resilient Community

NM Guiamalodin, RGA Culele… - American Journal of …, 2024 - journals.e-palli.com
The physical, emotional, and psychological well-being of every individual is negatively
affected by disasters. In particular, the aged people, or “Senior Citizens” are susceptible to …

The Experiences of Older Turkish Adults in Using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for Mitigating their Deepening Social Isolation During Disasters

Ş Esendemir - Senectus, 2023 - dergipark.org.tr
Disasters continue to occur and deepen the problems of older adults from disadvantaged
groups. In COVID-19, a recent example of a biological disaster, the issue of social isolation …

'Do this to live longer': a study of health and fitness magazine representations of older women

J Liang - 2023 - open.library.ubc.ca
In this study, I investigated how aging and older women were represented in health and
fitness magazine advertisements and stories. Magazines reflect social norms and influence …

A critical perspective on the mediatization of brain imaging and healthy ageing

N Khalili-Mahani, E Loos - Journal of Science Communication, 2023 - jcom.sissa.it
Since the invention of functional brain imaging in the early 1990s, this instrumentally and
computationally expensive methodology has captured our interests in visualizing the …