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Age-related declines in activity level
— the relationship between chronic illness and religious activities | | Author(s) | Maureen Reindl Benjamins, Marc A Musick, Deborah T Gold |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 58B, no 6, November 2003 |
| Pages | pp S377-S385 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Ill health ; Spiritual characteristics [elderly] ; Church services ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | When faced with major life transitions such as worsening health, older people may selectively withdraw from activities. Bearing in mind the importance of religion for a large proportion of the older population, multiple waves of data from the Duke Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (EPESE) were used to analyse the effects of five different chronic conditions on two religious activities: service attendance, and religious media use. Findings show that broken hip, cancer and stroke were significantly related to levels of religious attendance. Furthermore, the combined conditions also significantly predicted religious attendance, with more conditions being associated with lower attendance. Neither the individual or summed conditions were significantly related to religious media use. The study finds some evidence to support the idea that older people withdraw from social activities such as religious involvement when faced with declining health. In contrast, levels of religious media use remain stable following the onset of one or more new chronic conditions. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040406229 A |
| Classmark | CH: EX: OWM: 49: 7T |
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