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| Leisure activities and quality of life among the oldest old in Sweden | | Author(s) | Merril Silverstein, Marti G Parker |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 24, no 5, September 2002 |
| Pages | pp 528-547 |
| Keywords | Recreation ; Participation ; Quality of life ; Living in the community ; Longitudinal surveys ; Sweden. |
| Annotation | Drawing on the notion that "engagement with life" is a critical component of successful ageing, this study tested whether change in leisure activities of older Swedish people over a 10-year period was associated with retrospectively assessed change in their quality of life. Hypotheses were tested for a sample of 324 older Swedes (aged 77-98) from the 1992 Swedish Panel Study of Living Conditions of the Oldest Old (SWEOLD). Fifteen leisure activities were divided into six domains: culture-entertainment; productive-personal growth; outdoor-physical; recreation-expressive; friendship; and formal-group. Ordered logit analysis revealed that those increasing their activity participation across domains tended to perceive an improvement in their life conditions. The effect was particularly strong for those who had become widowed, developed functional impairments, or had relatively low contact with families. The results suggest that maximising activity participation is an adequate strategy taken by older people to compensate for social and physical deficits in later life.(RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020924208 A |
| Classmark | H: TMB: F:59: K4: 3J: 76P |
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