{"id":115596,"date":"2020-11-17T09:55:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T14:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=115596"},"modified":"2024-02-09T11:55:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T16:55:40","slug":"ucf-researcher-examines-benefits-of-supportive-communities-for-older-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-researcher-examines-benefits-of-supportive-communities-for-older-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF Researcher Examines Benefits of Supportive Communities for Older Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of Americans age 65 and older continues to increase as the baby boom generation ages and people are living longer. At the same time, many seniors plan to \u201cage in place,\u201d or continue living in their current homes, despite needing more assistance as they get older.<\/p>\n<p>One strategy for aging in place is an emerging idea known as aging in community, in which older adults depend on a community support group or program for assistance. This can consist of situations like older adults or family and friends living in the same house or close by each other in communities where they can easily assist each other.<\/p>\n<p>To find out just how well the aging-in-community strategy is working, a University of Central Florida health management and informatics researcher examined three aging-in-community programs in Florida. Her study, which is among the first to examine some key variables for these programs, was recently published in the journal <em>Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_115602\" style=\"max-width: 215px;\" class=\"figure float-left\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" class=\"figure-img  img-fluid w-100 size-medium wp-image-115602\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/11\/su_I_for_web-215x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Su-I Hou\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/11\/su_I_for_web-215x300.jpeg 215w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/11\/su_I_for_web-366x512.jpeg 366w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/11\/su_I_for_web-286x400.jpeg 286w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/11\/su_I_for_web-257x360.jpeg 257w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/11\/su_I_for_web.jpeg 429w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" class=\"figure-img  img-fluid w-100 size-medium wp-image-115602 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20215%20300%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Su-I Hou\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20215%20300%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 215w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/11\/su_I_for_web-215x300.jpeg 215w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/11\/su_I_for_web-366x512.jpeg 366w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/11\/su_I_for_web-286x400.jpeg 286w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/11\/su_I_for_web-257x360.jpeg 257w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/11\/su_I_for_web.jpeg 429w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/11\/su_I_for_web-215x300.jpeg\"><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">Su-I Hou, professor and interim chair of UCF\u2019s Department of Health Management and Informatics, performed the research.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cGiven the fast approaching \u2018super-aged society\u2019 in the U.S., there is a critical need to identify and assess the impact of aging-in-community programs aimed at helping older adults remain independent at home while also having a sense of belonging to their community,\u201d says Su-I Hou, professor and interim chair of UCF\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/ccie.ucf.edu\/hmi\/\">Department of Health Management and Informatics<\/a> and author of the study.<\/p>\n<p>Hou examined two important factors for successful aging in community \u2013 people\u2019s perceived ability to live independently and their perceived neighborhood social cohesiveness \u2013 in three types of aging-in-community programs in Central Florida.<\/p>\n<p>These were two village programs, Thriving-in-Place, in Celebration, and Neighbors Network, in Winter Park; the Seniors First Meals on Wheels Program in Orlando, which is a county neighborhood lunch program; and a university-based lifelong learning program, <a href=\"https:\/\/life.ucf.edu\/\">LIFE at UCF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a village program, older residents band together to help each other out with drives to the doctor, help with errands and to vet any outside services or assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Countywide neighborhood lunch programs provide meals and nutritional services to older adults in a group setting.<\/p>\n<p>The university-based lifelong learning program provides education for older adults and ways to connect with other people and engage in campus services and programs.<\/p>\n<p>The researcher found that for the nearly 300 total older people she surveyed in the aging-in-community programs, the higher a person\u2019s education level was, the less likely they were to perceive themselves as having the ability to live independently.<\/p>\n<p>She also found that people who were married had greater perceptions of social cohesiveness, or that they lived in a neighborhood where people helped each other out.<\/p>\n<p>When comparing the three programs, study data showed that older adults participating in the neighborhood lunch program perceived a higher level of confidence that they can live independently at their own home, yet a lower level of neighborhood social cohesiveness, compared with older adults participating in the village or lifelong learning programs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe findings suggest \u2018remain independent at home\u2019 and \u2018having a sense of belonging to their community\u2019 may impact older adults with different characteristics or community-support systems differently,\u201d Hou says. \u201cIt calls attention to examine how these key factors operate in different programs promoting aging in community, as well as a need to promote confidence in living independently at home among higher-educated older adults, and to facilitate a sense of belonging to their own community for single, older adults.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hou received her doctorate in health promotion and health education from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. She joined UCF\u2019s Department of Health Management and Informatics, part of UCF\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/college\/community-innovation-education\/\">College of Community Innovation and Education<\/a>, in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cAging in community\u201d is an emerging idea in which older adults depend on a community-support group or programs for assistance as they age in their homes.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":115600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5,23],"tags":[17177,9605],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-115596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colleges","category-research","tag-college-of-community-innovation-and-education","tag-department-of-health-management-and-informatics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UCF Researcher Examines Benefits of Supportive Communities for Older Adults | University of Central Florida News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cAging in community\u201d is an emerging idea in which older adults depend on a community-support group or programs for assistance as they age in their homes.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-researcher-examines-benefits-of-supportive-communities-for-older-adults\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UCF Researcher Examines Benefits of Supportive Communities for Older Adults\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cAging in community\u201d is an emerging idea in which older adults depend on a community-support group or programs for assistance as they age in their homes.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-researcher-examines-benefits-of-supportive-communities-for-older-adults\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"University of Central Florida News | UCF Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UCF\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-11-17T14:55:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-02-09T16:55:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/11\/older_adults_for_web.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"UCF Today\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@UCF\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@UCF\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"UCF Today\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/ucf-researcher-examines-benefits-of-supportive-communities-for-older-adults\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/ucf-researcher-examines-benefits-of-supportive-communities-for-older-adults\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"UCF Today\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1aebb3df3a7ab485359dde7d3c88ef4e\"},\"headline\":\"UCF Researcher Examines Benefits of Supportive Communities for Older Adults\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-11-17T14:55:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-02-09T16:55:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/ucf-researcher-examines-benefits-of-supportive-communities-for-older-adults\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":635,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/ucf-researcher-examines-benefits-of-supportive-communities-for-older-adults\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/blogs.dir\\\/20\\\/files\\\/2020\\\/11\\\/older_adults_for_web.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"College of Community Innovation and Education\",\"Department of Health Management and Informatics\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Colleges &amp; 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