Violence against older women: A systematic review of qualitative literature

SR Meyer, ME Lasater, C García-Moreno - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The majority of the existing evidence-base on violence against women focuses on women of
reproductive age (15–49), and globally there is sparse evidence concerning patterns of and …

Making sense of violence and victimization in health care work: The emotional labour of 'not taking it personally'

L Funk, D Spencer, R Herron - International review of …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite significant impacts on employee health, workplace violence tends to be minimized
and normalized by service workers and by organizations, with employees implicitly held …

Responding the “wrong way”: The emotion work of caring for a family member with dementia

RV Herron, LM Funk, D Spencer - The Gerontologist, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Objectives Although it is generally acknowledged that the
changing behaviors of some people living with dementia can be emotionally exhausting for …

Female family carers' experiences of violent, abusive or harmful behaviour by the older person for whom they care: a case of epistemic injustice?

L Isham, C Bradbury‐Jones… - Sociology of Health & …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Family carers affected by violent, abusive or harmful behaviour by the older person for whom
they care face social and epistemic challenges in developing and sharing knowledge about …

Fear about Alzheimer's disease among Israeli and German laypersons, persons with Mild Neurocognitive Disorder and their relatives: A qualitative study

P Werner, N Ulitsa, D Shephet, H Abojabel… - International …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Objectives: Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common type of dementia, is one of the most
feared diseases, obstructing help-seeking, and leading to discrimination. While research …

Aggression and older adults: News media coverage across care settings and relationships

LM Funk, RV Herron, D Spencer… - Canadian Journal on …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Systematic, in-depth exploration of news media coverage of aggression and older adults
remains sparse, with little attention to how and why particular frames manifest in coverage …

'This is Still All about Love': Practitioners' Perspectives of Working with Family Carers Affected by the Harmful Behaviour of the Older Person for Whom They Care

L Isham, C Bradbury-Jones… - The British Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
This article explores a hidden and under-acknowledged dimension of caring in family life:
when older people with care needs act in a harmful, abusive or violent way towards the …

Problematizing Dominant Assumptions about Unpaid Support through Exploring Case Study Profiles of Older Home Care Clients

L Funk, K Kuryk, L Spring… - Health & Social Care in the …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Despite efforts to acknowledge diversity among unpaid caregivers, Canadian research,
advocacy, practice, and policy tend to be based in and to reproduce dominant social and …

Applying the concept of structural empowerment to interactions between families and home‐care nurses

LM Funk, KI Stajduhar, M Giesbrecht, D Cloutier… - Nursing …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Interpretations of family carer empowerment in much nursing research, and in home‐
care practice and policy, rarely attend explicitly to families' choice or control about the …

The difference in stigmatizing attributions toward older adults with or without Alzheimer's disease.

SE Baumgartner, PW Corrigan, HT Wan… - Stigma and …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Persons with Alzheimer's disease (AD) may experience stigma related to having a
neurodegenerative disease. This study combined attribution theory and constructs of aging …