A scoping review exploring the 'grey area'of suicide-related expression in later life: Developing a conceptual framework for professional engagement

T Hafford-Letchfield, B Jain, H Gleeson, C Roesch… - Ageing & …, 2024 - cambridge.org
As the body of research on suicide in later life has developed, so has its vocabulary. This
has generated a high level of overlap in concepts and terminology used to articulate suicide …

Metaphors and Related Expressions in Older Adults in the Field of Trauma and Stress-related Disorders: A Scoping Review

S Rossi, A Maercker, E Heim - Metaphor and Symbol, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A scoping review was conducted to explore the metaphors and related
expressions older adults use to describe extremely stressful events that may lead to Post …

Taking time: The temporal politics of dementia, care and support in the neighbourhood

R Ward, K Rummery, E Odzakovic… - Sociology of health & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Dementia is a global health challenge and currently the focus of a coordinated international
response articulated through the notion of 'dementia‐friendly communities and …

The perspectives of people with dementia on their future, end of life and on being cared for by others: A qualitative study

SR Bolt, JT van der Steen, C Khemai… - Journal of clinical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aims and objectives To explore the perspectives of people with dementia on being cared for
by others, on the future and on the end of life, and to evaluate the capability and willingness …

How do we understand 'age'and 'aging'? Cultural constructions of the 'aging'experience in British English and Chinese from a linguistic perspective

T Zhou - Journal of Aging Studies, 2024 - Elsevier
This study investigates the cognitive constructions surrounding the aging experience in
British English and Mandarin Chinese. The study employs corpus data to explore how fixed …

Aging-related fears and their associations with ideal life expectancy

FS Rupprecht, K Martin, FR Lang - European Journal of Ageing, 2022 - Springer
Fears regarding various aspects tend to stimulate individuals to escape or to avoid the
sources of the threat. We concluded that fears associated with the future aging process, like …

Talking really does matter: Lay perspectives from older people on talking about suicide in later life

T Hafford-Letchfield, JR Hanna, TJ Ellmers… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background The cumulative body of research on suicidality in later life describes its unique
and complex features in older people when compared with that in other population groups …

The social–political challenges behind the wish to die in older people who consider their lives to be completed and no longer worth living

E Van Wijngaarden, A Goossensen… - Journal of European …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
In the Netherlands, physician-assisted dying has been legalized since 2002. Currently, an
increasing number of Dutch citizens are in favour of a more relaxed interpretation of the law …

Die dunkle seite der vorstellungskraft: Das Abjekt als verworfenes im imaginären

L Pfaller - Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 2021 - Springer
Die sich derzeitig konstituierende Soziologie des Imaginären nimmt dieses in erster Linie
über die Rekonstruktion bedeutungstragender Vorstellungsinhalte in den Blick …

From reciprocity to autonomy in physician-assisted death: an ethical analysis of the Dutch Supreme Court ruling in the Albert Heringa case

BW Florijn - The American Journal of Bioethics, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract In 2002, the Dutch Euthanasia Act was put in place to regulate the ending of one's
life, permitting a physician to provide assistance in dying to a patient whose suffering the …