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Examining the aging process through the stress-coping framework
— application to driving cessation in later life | | Author(s) | Moon Choi, Kathryn Betts Adams, Briana Mezuk |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 16, no 1-2, January-March 2012 |
| Pages | pp 75-83 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Driving capability ; Ageing process ; Well being ; Stress ; Adjustment. |
| Annotation | The ageing process is marked by a series of transitions that influence multiple domains of well-being. One important transition for older adults is the process of driving cessation. Recent research has focused on the consequences of driving cessation in later life for health and well-being. However, these reports have been largely empirical and are not drawn from a defined conceptual framework. Establishing a theoretical model of how driving cessation interacts with other processes and domains of aging will promote synthesis of seemingly disparate findings and also link the empirical research on cessation to the broader field of gerontology. This article describes a conceptual model for articulating and examining the components of the driving cessation process based on the stress-coping paradigm. This model situates driving cessation within the context of exogenous stressors, individual vulnerabilities and coping strategies, and environmental hazards and buffers over the lifespan. This model could assist in guiding intervention strategies aimed at reducing premature driving cessation in older drivers with ameliorable impairments while assisting at-risk older drivers to reduce or stop driving in a less stressful way. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-120820004 A |
| Classmark | OPF: BG: D:F:5HH: QNH: DR |
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