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Everyday competence in visually impaired older adults
— a case for person-environment perspectives | | Author(s) | Hans-Werner Wahl, Frank Oswald, Daaniet Zimprich |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 39, no 2, April 1999 |
| Pages | pp 140-149 |
| Keywords | Visual impairment ; Blindness ; Independence ; Mobility ; Self care capacity ; Housing [elderly] ; Ergonomics ; Germany. |
| Annotation | The need for an explicit consideration of the environment, in order to address everyday competence (EC) in old age is illustrated, based on an analysis of the day-to-day challenges of visually impaired older people. Data are based on a sample of older Germans suffering from different degrees of visual impairment (42 visually severely impaired vs 42 blind) and a control group of 42 visually unimpaired people with age means between 74.9 and 76.8. Findings underscore that an EC, regarded as an outcome, is negatively affected by low person-environment fit in the home environment in visually impaired older people but not in the visually unimpaired older population. EC, understood as daily compensatory processes, is more pronounced in the visually impaired with respect to some compensation modes (e.g. use of latent skills), but not all; and EC as a predictor variable for outdoor behaviour assumes a particularly critical role when outside environmental press is high. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990723206 A |
| Classmark | BR: BS: C3: C4: CA: KE: 38: 767 |
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