Gloria Fernandez-Mayoralas

Spanish National Research Council | CSIC · Institute of Economics, Geography and Demography - Department of Population

Background The measures imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially social distancing, had important effects on feelings of loneliness. The objective of this work is to assess the perception of loneliness in older adults living in nursing homes during the pandemic, how it has changed during the pandemic and its explanatory factors. Methods Th...

Background/Objectives: Fear of COVID-19 is a feeling whose perception can influence mental health and behavior, as has been shown in recent literature. The objective of the research is to analyze conditioning factors of fear of COVID-19 and its influence on compliance with protection measures of elderly people living in residences. Methods: The sur...

There are numerous sociological and psychosocial studies, both classic and current, that have analysed the images and representations of older people and aging. If gender, intersectional and land perspectives are added, the literature consulted is only a few years old, particularly in Spanish. In addition, research based on fieldwork from virtual i...

Ageism promotes the exclusion of older people from society by generating a negative image that they also internalize. The aim of this article is to investigate older people’s social self-image, through statements broadcast on a national Spanish radio program aimed at this group. A qualitative analysis was conducted for a random sample from the soun...

Nursing homes for the elderly in Spain have experienced high rates of infection and mortality from COVID-19, although rates have varied from one region to another. Madrid is the region where most institutionalized older adults have died from the coronavirus. However, there is little known about the psychosocial and environmental factors involved in...

The most vulnerable residential settings during the COVID-19 pandemic were older adult’s nursing homes, which experienced high rates of incidence and death from this cause. This paper aims to ascertain how institutionalized older people assessed their residential environment during the pandemic and to examine the differences according to personal a...

Fear of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is one of the main psychological impacts of the actual pandemic, especially among the population groups with higher mortality rates. The Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S) has been used in different scenarios to assess fear associated with COVID-19, but this has not been done frequently in people living in...

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted older people. The disease and the measures to combat it have had a differential impact according to gender, with higher mortality rates in men and worse psychological and social consequences in women. The objective of this work is to analyze the changes in perceived health of older people in Eu...

This chapter analyses self-image among older adults, taking into account their different residential settings (family dwelling, cohousing, nursing homes), the relationship with pillars and determinants of active ageing, and the implications for the development of more inclusive settings for older adults. There is a qualitative analysis of discourse...

There is growing interest in promoting active and healthy ageing environments through age-friendly communities within the scientific and public administration sectors. Older people’s health and quality of life expectations are structured around living for as long as possible in their usual environment, home and neighbourhood, so they can maintain a...

Background Following the active ageing model based on the Health, Lifelong Learning, Participation and Security pillars, this research has a twofold objective: i) to classify older adults according to active ageing profiles, taking into account the four pillars, and ii) to ascertain the relationship between the profiles and personal and contextual...

The violence - without the apparent “Gender Peace”, if data and households are examined - occurs against adult and older women, is beginning to become apparent, but there is only information from recent years. The objective is demonstrate that social isolation can be a key factor in gender peace in the case of adult and older women, even more so in...

This paper investigates positive perceptions of ageing in rural people aged 65 and over as a key predictor of the self-assessment of one’s health. Method: The sample covers a total of 3389 people from the ‘Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement’ (SHARE), wave 6 (W6, 2015). This research analyses men and women who live in a rural environment. A lin...

Background. Following the active ageing model based on the Health, Lifelong Learning, Participation and Security pillars, this research has a twofold objective: i) to classify older adults according to active ageing profiles, taking into account the four pillars, and ii) to ascertain the relationship between the profiles and personal and contextual...

This chapter aims to know the psychosocial impact and social behaviours and related to the perception of technological needs in adults and older persons with diseases, health problems and/or sensory or motor disabilities. This work delves into this reality from a gender, inclusive and, at the same time, technological, biotechnological and/or virtua...

This study aimed to analyze the determinants of quality of life (QoL) in older people in three European countries (Portugal, Spain and Sweden). A sample of 7589 participants in waves 4 (2011) and 6 (2015) of the Survey on Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) project, aged 50 and over and living in Portugal, Spain and Sweden, was included...

This handbook presents an overview of studies on the relationship of active ageing and quality of life. It addresses the new challenges of ageing from the paradigm of positive ageing (active, healthy and successful) for a better quality of life. It provides theoretical perspectives and empirical studies, including scientific knowledge as well as pr...

Background. The concept of active ageing has been used in recent decades as a line of research in population studies and as a public policy instrument, especially since its adoption by the World Health Organization to reinforce health, participation, security and lifelong learning as pillars of quality of life (WHO, Active ageing: A policy framewor...

Purpose: Loneliness and social isolation have detrimental effects on health in old age; however, the prospective associations with quality of life (QoL) remain unclear. Furthermore, despite the existence of a European north-south gradient in the distribution of loneliness and social isolation, little is known whether the associations are context-s...

Background: The academic literature contains little information regarding the interventions that create age-friendly cities and communities in order to promote active ageing. Objectives: A systematic review was carried out to determine the available empirical evidence in relation to the characteristics, content and effectiveness of interventions ai...

Background The World Health Organization’s active ageing model is based on the optimisation of four key “pillars”: health, lifelong learning, participation and security. It provides older people with a policy framework to develop their potential for well-being, which in turn, may facilitate longevity. We sought to assess the effect of active ageing...

This paper aims at understanding the layperception of residential environment among the Spanish older adults related to residential environment in different residential areas (family housing, co-housing, and institutionalization). The data come from in-depth interviews and focus groups conducted to men and women, in 2017, applying thematic analysis...

La morbilidad hospitalaria de la población española. Se analiza la morbilidad de la población española, tomando como base de estudio los hospitales del país recogidos en el C.M.B.D. (Conjunto Mínimo Básico de Datos) para 1994. Se descubre que la presencia en hospital está marcada por los niños hasta los dos años, las mujeres en edad fértil y los an...

Introduction: Scientific research has slowly been incorporating the factors that influence the process of ageing. Among them, gender has been considered a cross determinant which may affect all other factors of Active Ageing (World Health Organization, 2002). This paper provides a review of the role of gender on ageing well. Material and methods: A...

Demographic ageing is one of the most relevant social and political challenges in recent decades. There are several approaches to the fact of ageing, depending on the emphasis on biomedical, social or political aspects. The approach to ageing from a social construction perspective implies thinking about how we get older and how we achieve it with q...

Demographic ageing is one of the most relevant social and political challenges in recent decades. There are several approaches to the fact of ageing, depending on the emphasis on biomedical, social or political aspects. The approach to ageing from a social construction perspective implies thinking about how we get older and how we achieve it with q...

As a multidimensional concept, active ageing is placed in relation to the most important domains of quality of later life, self-assessed by the individuals. It is well recognized in international research to have positive effects on personal wellbeing. From the point of view of an active living at an individual and ageing contexts, this paper aimed...

Introducción El concepto envejecimiento activo intenta transmitir una for-ma de envejecer diferenciada socialmente de la del envejecimien-to saludable. Es de interés para los investigadores y un objetivo para la actuación entre gobiernos y estructuras sociales organiza-das (IMSERSO, 2011). El modelo seminal de envejecimiento acti-vo sustentado en l...

El envejecimiento demográfico en los países latinoamericanos es un fenómeno que se está desarrollando en el momento actual, lo que obliga a considerar sus efectos en diversos ámbitos que atañen a los individuos, las familias y las generaciones que las componen, las estructuras y las redes sociales que les dan apoyo, los recursos económicos y social...

Libro de Actas del XXV Congreso de Geógrafos Españoles

Introduction. The population of Madrid is ageing in an unequal urban space and in a context of economic crisis, which can lead to processes of social exclusion and interfere with an active living. The concept of an age‐friendly city, according to the Vancouver Protocol (WHO), emerges as an instrument of public policies to avoid these processes by m...

Population aging is growing and, consequently, has attracted great interest in knowledge on the promotion of health and quality of life (QoL) in old age. In this context, a multidisciplinary team designed the CadeViMa Study, a cross-sectional study to assess the QoL of community-dwelling older people and to identify its associated factors. It incor...

Family and social networks are changing at all ages, becoming more fragile and less dense, and contact is getting less in-person. However, these networks are one of the most important dimensions of domain-specific quality of life among older-adults. This chapter deals with the networks and associated factors analysis. Data come from the Ageing in S...

The World Health Organization definition for active ageing and the approach and measurement made by the UNECE/EC to define an Active Ageing Index (AAI) are the starting points for this work. This paper reflects on the proposed methodology of the European AAI for measuring and adapting it to sub-national spaces, in this case Spain and its regions. C...

Aplicación del Indice de Envejecimiento Activo (AAI-UNECE) a España

Presentación del Programa de investigación de la Comunidad de madrid ’Envejecimiento Activo, Calidad de Vida y Género’ (ENCAGE-CM)

This study analyzes the relationship between gender and self-perceived health status in Spanish retirees and housewives from a sample of 1,106 community-dwelling older adults. A multivariate linear regression model was used in which self-perceived health status was measured by the EQ-5D visual analogue scale and gender according to work status (ret...

In recent decades, the study of living conditions under the paradigm of the quality of later life has shown increasing interest, both in a scientific context and in social policies and service providers, in observing the explanatory factors to establish standards and procedures for action to enhance the quality of life of older adults, as one of th...

The residential environment is considered the geographical space to which the population, especially older people, is most closely attached and where their daily life unfolds. Together with this, other personal and health and functioning conditions show their effect on satisfaction with life, as an indicator of quality of life in old age. In this c...

Despite controversies in theory and in practice when measuring wellbeing and quality of life, there is sufficient agreement to consider these constructs to be relevant in the context of elderly people to identify factors that affect living conditions and quality of life at older-adult ages. This chapter is drawn from a wider perspective on theory a...

Leisure and free time has been rated by older individuals as one of the five most important dimensions for their quality of life. In this chapter, and in the context of active ageing, we analyse the differences in carrying out leisure activities and social participation among older adults in Spain, according to their sociodemographic and residentia...

Objectives: Active ageing, considered from the perspective of participation in leisure activities, promotes life satisfaction and personal well-being. The aims of this work are to define and explain leisure activity profiles among institutionalized older adults, considering their sociodemographic characteristics and objective and subjective condit...

Hoy resulta prácticamente incuestionable la contribución del ocio a procesos de envejecimiento satisfactorio. Este libro pretende ser, por la riqueza, calidad y actualidad de las aportaciones que lo conforman así como por la diversidad de los enfoques desde los que se trata el fenómeno del envejecimiento, un estímulo para reavivar el debate científ...

Resumen La muestra piloto del Estudio Longitudinal Envejecer en España (ELES), representativa de la población española mayor de 50 años, permite definir un perfil sociodemográfico de esta población mediante el análisis de varias dimensiones, poniendo los fundamentos para estudiar su previsible comportamiento al llegar a edades avanzadas en los próx...

Background Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in older adults is determined by personal conditions, as well as by the social and physical environment. The purpose of the present study was to describe the factors related to health conditions and residential environment that influence HRQOL of older adults.Methods Data from 1815 cases came from t...

Active ageing policies seek to increase the quality of life of older people in three areas: health, security and participation. This paper focuses on a specific type of par-ticipation: associations. Its objective is to explore the possible self-selection effects of this type of participation, using global subjective quality of life indicators (sati...

This study aims to assess the change in and predictive factors of the quality of life (QoL) of institutionalized older adults with dementia over a 20-month period. Information was used from a follow-up study conducted over an average period of 19.61 ± 1.93 months on a sample of 274 institutionalized older adults aged 60 or over, diagnosed with deme...

AimTo analyze how the characteristics of institutionalized older people with dementia and residential care centers are associated with the individual's quality of life (QoL). Methods Data were collected from a survey carried out on 525 elderly people aged 60 years or older in 14 nursing care homes across Spain. Multilevel linear analysis to assess...

En este trabajo se analiza la relación existente entre la práctica de actividades de ocio y las condiciones personales y de vida de la población mayor, y su influencia en la Calidad de Vida (CdV) global. Los datos proceden de una muestra representativa de 499 encuestados con 65 o más años de edad que residen en viviendas familiares de la Comunidad...

This paper aims to examinate the relationship between the practice of leisure activities and personal and living conditions of the population and its influence on global Quality of Life (QoL). Data come from a representative sample of 499 respondents with 65 years old and more in community-dwelling in the Madrid Region. Objective and subjective ind...

Based on theory, perceived social support is a relevant multidimensional factor for the wellbeing and quality of life of older adults. However, not all measuring instruments are able to identify this multidimensionality in every population. In this sense, the objectives of this paper are: 1) to identify the dimensions underlying the social support...

The present study aimed at analyzing whether activity status is associated with self-perceived health status and quality of life (QoL) in community-dwelling older adults. We used a cross-sectional design based on a semi-structured QoL questionnaire in a representative sample of 1106 community-dwelling adults aged 60 years and older in Spain. Logist...

Objective: The conceptual framework of Quality of Life (QoL) allows approaching the knowledge of the living conditions of people in order to help establishing policies for QoL improvement. This study is aimed at examining the assessment made by older adults on their personal wellbeing and the satisfaction with life and the associated factors. A sum...