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Psychosocial consequences of age-related visual impairment
— comparison with mobility-impaired older adults and long-term outcome | | Author(s) | Hans-Werner Wahl, Oliver Schilling, Frank Oswald |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 54B, no 5, September 1999 |
| Pages | pp P304-316 |
| Keywords | Visual impairment ; Physical disabilities ; Self care capacity ; Mobility ; Comparison ; Longitudinal surveys ; Germany. |
| Annotation | In this German research, indices of behavioural competence (activities of daily living - ADLs, instrumental activities of daily living - IADLs, use of outdoor resources, leisure activity level) and emotional adaptation (subjective well-being, future orientation) were used to investigate the psychosocial consequences of age-related vision impairment in a threefold manner: comparison of visually impaired and unimpaired older people; comparison of visually impaired and mobility-impaired older people; and long-term adaptation across five years. The research design used 42 severely visually impaired, 42 blind, and 42 mobility-impaired older people, also an unimpaired control group of 42. Compared with the mobility impaired, the visually impaired demonstrated lower IADL competence, but no difference in emotional adaptation. The long-term adjustment of the visually impaired remained relatively stable in the behavioural domain, although lower compared with the unimpaired group. Emotional adaptation decreased over the 5 year longitudinal interval in the visually impaired and the unimpaired group, but the decrease was generally higher in the visually impaired group. Conceptual ideas from environmental gerontology as well as psychological resilience are used to interpret these results. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991220220 A |
| Classmark | BR: BN: CA: C4: 48: 3J: 767 |
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