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Going it alone
— a scoping review of unbefriended older adults | | Author(s) | Stephanie Chamberlain, Sol Baik, Carole Estabrooks |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 37, no 1, March 2018 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, March 2018 |
| Pages | pp 1-11 |
| Source | http://www.cambridge.org/cjg |
| Keywords | Loneliness ; Isolation [elderly] ; Court of protection ; Literature reviews ; United States of America ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Older adults who have reduced decision-making capacity and no family or friends to compensate for these deficiencies are known as unbefriended and require a public guardian. The purpose of this study was to review peer-reviewed and grey literature to determine the scope of available research on unbefriended older adults in Canada and the United States. There was found to be limited research examining unbefriended older adults. No Canadian studies or reports were located. Unbefriended older adults were childless or had fewer children, were more cognitively impaired and were older than older adults who were not unbefriended. These findings demonstrate a stark scarcity of studies on unbefriended older adults. Research is urgently needed using standardised data collection of guardianship status in order to enable studies of the prevalence of public guardianship in Canada.. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180309213 A |
| Classmark | DV: F:TP: JVC: 64A: 7T: 7S |
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