Chapter 3 Decision-Making and Satisfaction with a Continuing Care Retirement Community

Abstract

We draw on both life course and decision-making theories to examine decision strategies prior to moving to a continuing care retirement community (CCRC) and subsequent satisfaction following the move. Multivariate analyses drawing on panel data for a sample of 92 older adults (age 64 to 94) before and after their move to a CCRC show that frequent residential relocation in the adult years reduces the odds of considering staying in one's own home. Cognitive orientations at time 1 predict subsequent satisfaction with the move to a CCRC: mastery increases the odds, desiring age-integrated housing reduces the odds.     

Assessing Student Staff Motivation and Satisfaction to Strengthen Health Education Services

Abstract

A student staff inquiry project in the department of health education at a large state university assessed the motivation and satisfaction of student staff and peer educators. The students who managed this Student Inquiry Project created the interview tool, collected and analyzed the data for themes, and developed follow-up recommendations. Through this student-driven qualitative process, several themes emerged, including the need for more department visibility, student opportunities, student identity, skill building, and appreciation. The department is using the recommendations to strengthen student connection, satisfaction, and training.     

Communication With Parents and Body Satisfaction in College Students

Abstract

Objective: This study examined how communication with parents is related to college students’ body satisfaction. Participants and Methods: Participants (N = 134; 58 males and 76 females) completed a survey in March 2011 assessing body satisfaction and perceptions of communication with mothers and fathers. Results: Daughters’ body satisfaction was negatively correlated with perceptions of problematic communication with mothers and fathers. Sons’ body satisfaction was positively correlated with open communication with their mothers and negatively correlated with problematic communication with their mothers. Conclusions: Findings indicated problematic communication with mothers was the most powerful predictor of daughters’ body satisfaction, whereas open communication with mothers was the best predictor of sons’ body satisfaction.     

Social connectedness and life satisfaction: Comparing mean levels for 2 undergraduate samples and testing for improvement based on brief counseling

ABSTRACT

Objectives: Comparing the mean levels of social connectedness and life satisfaction, and analyzing their relationship for 2 undergraduate samples, and testing for an increase in their means for a brief counseling sample. Participants: Between October 2013 and May 2015, 3 samples were collected: not-in-counseling (NIC; n = 941), initial counseling session (ICS; ie, triage session only; n = 168), and brief counseling (BC; ie, median of 4 additional counseling sessions; n = 28). Methods: Online surveys measuring demographic and background control variables, social connectedness, and life satisfaction. Results: NIC students exhibited higher social connectedness and life satisfaction than ICS students. Social connectedness significantly explained life satisfaction beyond controlled-for variables for both samples. There was a significant increase in social connectedness and life satisfaction for the BC sample. Conclusions: Social connectedness is an important antecedent of life satisfaction for undergraduates. Brief counseling can increase transition students' social connectedness and life satisfaction.     

Australian Baby Boomers Face Retirement During the Global Financial Crisis

This paper examines the impact in Australia of the global financial crisis on the baby boom cohort approaching later life. Data from national focus groups of people aged 50 to 64 years (N?=?73), conducted in late 2008, found widespread but variable concern and uncertainty concerning work and retirement plans and experiences. A national survey (N?=?1,009) of those aged 50 to 64 years in mid-2009 reported lower levels of financial satisfaction compared with other life domains; many planned to postpone retirement. Findings are interpreted in the context of policies and markets that differed significantly from those in the United States, notwithstanding the global nature of the financial crisis.     

A Review of Satisfaction Instruments Used in Long-Term Care Settings

Mandatory retirement for college and university faculty members will be abolished in 1994 in accordance with the amended Age Discrimination in Employment Act. The presidents of all institutions of higher learning with membership in Association of Gerontology in Higher Education, listed in the National Directory of Educational Programs in Gerontology, were asked to complete a survey that focused on the projected impact of this "uncapping."

Responses were received from 180 institutions (a 70% return rate). The typical respondent (85%-90%) anticipated that uncapping would have a negative impact on quality of instruction, scholarly contributions, and the institution's financial situation. Community relations and faculty morale were not expected to be as strongly impacted nevertheless, approximately two thirds of the respondents anticipated the effects would be negative here as well. Asked to descrlbe specific positive and negative outcomes in their own words, the presidents were more likely to cite negatives (75%) than positives (39%). Many of the responses given to the "positive" inquiry, however, were actually of a negative character, e.g., strategies for separating older faculty members from their positions despite the protection that will be granted when the amended Age Discriminatlon in Employment Act becomes effective. No respondent suggested the possibility of encouraging the continued or renewed development of their older faculty members, or of innovative plans for utilizing their abilities in different ways.     

失地农民生活满意度及其影响因素分析——以杨凌区为例

运用杨凌周边调研数据,对杨凌失地农民的生活满意度及其影响因素进行研究.结果表明,年龄、文化程度、宅基地被征对生活满意度有显著的负向影响,收入对数、抚养系数与社会资本对家庭生活满意度有显著正向影响,性别、财产状况、家庭支出状况对生活满意度的影响不显著,最后针对目前农民生活满意度状况提出对策建议.     

非自愿生态移民生计满意度及其影响因素研究

本文以内蒙古牧区非自愿生态移民调查数据为研究对象,运用Logistic模型对非自愿生态移民生计满意度及其影响因素进行了分析。研究结果表明：超过一半的被调查者对其生计状况持满意的态度。其中,男性要比女性满意度倾向性高;非农收入、看病方便程度、安置区治安条件、生活状况自我评价、生活习惯性以及生态移民政策评价显著影响着非自愿生态移民的生计满意度。     

新农保背景下农村老年人的社会支持与生活满意度研究

通过对福建省农村老年人抽样调查的数据分析,发现农村老年人的生活满意度受到了年龄、身体健康状况、经济状况、新农保的养老金金额以及来自家庭、社区、国家层面的生病照顾、经济支持、生活支持和情感支持的影响。其中,包含新农保在内的经济支持是影响农村老年人生活满意度的最显著因素。     

供需视角下农村医疗保险满意度及影响因素分析——基于重庆市828个农户的调查

根据重庆市828个农户调查数据,从供需视角分析影响农村医疗保险满意度的因素。同时,通过建立农村医疗保险满意度评价指标体系,利用Logistic回归分析,得出家庭人均收入、报销比例、报销程序和农户对医疗保险制度的认知程度是影响满意度的显著因素。对此,提出政府应该缩小不同级别医院报销的比例差距,逐步建立合理的统筹城乡医疗体系等以提高农户医疗保险满意度的建议。