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How to measure social health in the context of cognitive decline and dementia - A systematic review on instruments.
- Henrik Wiegelmann, Marta Lenart-Bugla, Myrra Vernooij-Dassen, Eline Verspoor, Imke Seifert, Dorota Szcześniak, Joanna Rymaszewska, Rabih Chattat, Yun-Hee Jeon, Esme Moniz-Cook, Martina Roes, Marieke Perry, Karin Wolf-Ostermann
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- International Psychogeriatrics / Volume 35 / Issue S1 / December 2023
- Published online by Cambridge University Press:
- 02 February 2024, pp. 15-16
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Background:
Besides aspects of physical and mental health and quality of life aspects the concept of social health is getting increasing attention in dementia research. Current research has led to a new umbrella concept of social health and first studies show relationships between social health markers and cognitive decline and dementia. But so far, no general overview exists how to measure social health in empirical studies.
Objective:The objective of this study therefore is to provide a systematic overview of instruments measuring aspects of social health and proposing a classification based on the new umbrella concept of social health.
Methods:Following the PRISMA 2020 guidelines a systematic review was conducted. The online search covered the databases PubMed/MEDLINE, PsychINFO, CINAHL within a publication period from 1st January 2000 till 15th October 2020 for English publications. To classify instruments a new multidimensional framework of social health was used.
Results:A total of 150 studies with 68 single instruments were included into the study. A broad range of study types was covered (i.e., feasibility studies, cross-national panel studies) from all over the world, with the majority of studies being conducted in the USA. Most of the described instruments consist of self-report measures, but also proxy and hybrid tools were found. The length of the instruments in terms of the number of single items ranged from 3-126 items, with a median length of 13 items. On the individual level of social health with the three domains capacities, autonomy and social participation we classified 42 instruments and on the social environment level with the three domains structure, functions and appraisal we classified 53 instruments. A large part of the identified instruments only addresses single aspects of social health and does not address the multidimensionality of the concept.
Conclusion:A structured overview of measures related to the conceptual framework of social health can help develop appropriate interventions for people with dementia and improve the conditions for living well with dementia. Furthermore, the creation of new standardized and terminologically consistent measures of social health is one of the tasks for future research in the field of social health.
1 - Canadian Animal Stories: Charles G. D. Roberts, “Do Seek Their Meat from God” (1892)
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- By Martina Seifert, Queen's University, Belfast
- Edited by Reingard M. Nischik, Reingard M. Nischik is Professor and chair of American literature at the University of Constance, Germany.
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- The Canadian Short Story
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- Boydell & Brewer
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- 28 April 2017
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- 16 May 2007, pp 41-52
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Summary
Given the immense preoccupation of the Canadian literary imagination with nature and the wilderness, it is not surprising that some of the earliest protagonists within the Canadian short-story tradition are four-legged, winged, or scaled. Although animals in world literature had featured in fables and fantasies for centuries, it was in Canada where, by the end of the nineteenth century, a radically new and unique literary genre developed: the realistic wild animal story. In contrast to traditional animal narratives, this genuinely Canadian product was based on accurate observation and scientific research and portrayed unsentimentally and with psychological insight the struggle for survival of animals in the Canadian wilderness. Two authors initiated and were largely responsible for this new genre, which came to influence the animal story worldwide: Ernest Thompson Seton (1860–1946) and Sir Charles G. D. Roberts (1860–1943).
Born shortly before Confederation in 1860, Charles George Douglas Roberts grew up in Westcock, New Brunswick. The Tantramar River district, where he spent his boyhood roaming the marshes and forests with, as he claimed, “few interests save those which the forest afforded” (The Watchers of the Trails, viii), would stimulate most of his later writing. At the age of twenty he published his first collection of poems, Orion, and Other Poems (1880), which inspired a generation of poets known as the Confederation Poets. Roberts became a literary figurehead of his time, proving that an indigenous Canadian poetry was possible after all. After graduating from the University of New Brunswick, Roberts temporarily became editor of The Week in Toronto before taking up a professorship in English and French at King's College in Windsor, Nova Scotia, from 1885 to 1895. Abandoning his academic career, since he was determined to work free-lance, Roberts left his wife and four children in 1897 and moved to New York City, where he stayed for ten years. He then lived in Paris, Munich, and London, earning his living by writing animal stories and romances set in his native Canada. On his return to Canada in 1925, Roberts was celebrated as a Canadian literary icon. Elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1890 and national president of the Canadian Authors’ Association in 1927, he continued to receive awards and was much praised — some critics say over-praised — during his lifetime.