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IS THERE A RIGHT TIME TO RETIRE? AFFECTIVE DIS/ENGAGEMENT FROM WORK IN A LONGITUDINAL QUALITATIVE STUDY FROM GERMANY
Authors: Wanka Anna 
Published: November 2019

Abstract
Recent retirement research has argued that the once predictable pattern associated with retiring is becoming increasingly differentiated by the age at which it occurs, if it is gradual of abrupt, voluntary or involuntary, etc. (Moffatt & Heaven 2017). Even though research suggests that retirement legislation and statutory retirement ages influence the subjective perception of a ‘right time to retire’ (cf. Jansen, 2018), many people don’t feel ready to retire when they should and hence retire involuntarily (Steiber & Kohli, 2017). This paper focuses on the dis/engagement processes that lead to feeling ‘ready’ to retire at a certain time, or not. Drawing on data from a qualitative longitudinal study in Germany, results suggest (1) that readiness to retire is a continuum, rather than a binary, which is influenced by a variety of actors, and (2) that it is and a process that changes multiple times in the retirement transition.
TECHNOLOGY AND AGING FUTURES: DISCOVERING THE CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW (CES) 2019
Authors: Katz Stephen 
Published: November 2019

Abstract
The growing field of technology and aging or gerontechnology has largely been considered from a health perspective on technological intervention to ameliorate conditions of isolation, disconnection, inactivity, and loneliness, as well as provide efficient alert systems, transportation coordination, and emergency services. Contesting the image of a ‘digital divide’ separating younger from older generations, the recreational industry has also produced a seniors market of technological games, toys, apps, exercises, and social media. The four papers in this symposium, however, are individual critical reflections by a group of social scientists who visited the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January 2019 (Las Vegas) as part of an ethnographic project about the politics of the technical turn in gerontological studies. In particular, the authors gathered evidence from the CES to support their interests in four trends: a) The collecting, aggregating, and sharing of personal data by home surveillance, artificial intelligence monitoring, and self-tracking systems for commercial, insurance and work-place purposes, b) The popularization of healthy lifestyles based on technical and exclusionary models of ‘smart’, ‘fit’, and ‘optimal’ standards, c) The technical rhetoric that infuses designs for efficiency, speed, and convenience with anti-aging and ageist ideologies, d) The challenges to older people to manage their lives against the health risks, interventions, and expectations posed by technology-driven austerity programs. The papers have in common their creative interpretations of CES materials and shared concern about the many older groups whose insufficient access, skill, and resources will deny them participation in the technological imaginary of aging futures.
GROWING UP WITH OPEN SCIENCE
Authors: Pfund Gabrielle N 
Published: November 2019

Abstract
While a novel concept for many, pre-registration is an outlet growing in prevalence that allows researchers to systematically work through future studies from start to finish by laying out research questions, relevant hypotheses, and study design. “Growing up” as a researcher with Open Science, I never felt that pre-registration limited me, my ability to think and ask questions, or any opportunities to explore new ideas with old data. Instead, it strengthened me as a researcher by giving me a methodical perspective to take when considering why I needed to ask a question and how I planned to answer it. In this talk, I will define what pre-registration is and discuss my experiences with it as an early career researcher. Furthermore, I will present different concerns and conceptions people have about it and expound upon the inherent benefits it provides to both critical thinking and study design.
COHORT DIFFERENCES IN COGNITIVE AGING: THE ROLE OF PERCEIVED WORK ENVIRONMENT
Authors: Hueluer Gizem , Ram Nilam , Willis Sherry L , Schaie K Warner , Gerstorf Denis 
Published: November 2019

Abstract
Studies of historical change on cognitive aging generally document that later-born cohorts outperform earlier-born cohorts on tests of fluid cognitive performance. It is often noted how advances in educational attainment contribute to this finding. Over the last century, work demands and characteristics have changed profoundly, with shifts from a manufacturing to service and technical economy. We used data from the Seattle Longitudinal Study to compare trajectories of cognitive change between earlier-born (1901-1938) and later-born cohorts (1939-1966). Our findings show that (a) later-born cohorts had higher levels of performance on most cognitive tasks and exhibited less decline in word fluency, (b) had more enriched perceived work environment as indicated by higher levels of worker control and innovation, with no cohort differences in work autonomy (c) these experiences were associated with higher levels of cognitive performance independent of education and consistently across cohorts. We discuss potential mechanisms underlying these associations.
THE ROLE OF RETIREMENT IN COGNITIVE AGING: RESULTS FROM THE SWEDISH ADOPTION/TWIN STUDY OF AGING
Authors: Andel Ross , Finkel Deborah , Pedersen Nancy L 
Published: November 2019

Abstract
Retirement is a major life transition that may influence the aging process. Using a two-slope growth curve model with retirement age as the pivot point, we studied change in major cognitive domains before and after retirement. Participants were 393 members of the Swedish Adoption/Twin Study of Aging who retired after the age of 50 (mean=63 years, range 51-75 years) and who were followed for over 20 years with seven testing occasions. After controlling for age, sex, and education, we observed no change in memory pre-retirement (p=.935) and significant memory decline post-retirement (Estimate=-0.17, p=.001); decline in speed, which more than doubled after retirement (Estimate=-0.20, p=.001 before, Estimate=0.54, p&lt;.001 after); improvement in verbal abilities before (Estimate=0.15, p=.020) and decline in verbal abilities after retirement (Estimate=-0.11, p&lt;.001); and some decline in spatial abilities before (Estimate=-0.18, p=.059) followed by accelerated decline after retirement (Estimate=-0.33, p&lt;.001). Retirement may be a good target for intervention.
TOWARD A NETWORK OF CHANGE: PROMOTING AGE-FRIENDLY COMMUNITIES FROM THE INSIDE OUT
Authors: Versey Shellae , Greenfield Emily 
Published: November 2019

Abstract
The experience of aging is often framed by the communities in which we live, work and play. At the same time, these communities are also impacted by individuals as they age in place. This symposium presents research using community-partnered methods to highlight the agency of local actors—including older residents themselves—as they work to change their local communities. At the broadest level of geographic scale, Black illustrates how information from population surveys with older adults can be leveraged to mobilize public-private partnerships from the local to state level to advance policy and practice on housing and transportation to support aging in place. Focusing regionally in New Jersey, Greenfield and Reyes analyze longitudinal, qualitative interview data from leaders of age-friendly community initiatives to develop empirically-grounded theory on the range of roles of older adults in aging-friendly community change processes. The final two papers present depth in understanding how older adults actively construct their own sense of community vis-à-vis more micro-social processes. Yeh uses Photovoice methodology to understand how older adults aging in place manage the societal trends of urbanization and social inequalities as they manifest within their own city. Versey examines how older adults aging in place in the context of neighborhood gentrification mobilize networks to preserve a community “sense of place” when sociocultural resources are displaced. Consistent with a community gerontology framework, the presentations demonstrate how community-level dynamics around aging are shaped not only by macro-social influences, but also micro-social interactions including, and sometimes initiated by, older residents themselves.
PLACEKEEPING AND SENSE OF PLACE: USING PHOTOVOICE TO HIGHLIGHT NEIGHBORHOOD DISPLACEMENT
Authors: Versey Shellae 
Published: November 2019

Abstract
There has been growing interest in the use of community-based participatory research (CBPR) in gerontology. Photovoice, one of several qualitative methods utilized in CBPR, pairs participants with photography to identify and represent issues of importance. This paper explores photovoice as a tool for meaning making and preserving a ‘sense of place’ in a gentrifying context in New York City. Older residents describe pending neighborhood displacement due to gentrification using photographs. Using these themes and a range of visual media, older adults mobilize preservation and resistance efforts to gentrification. The paper concludes with implications and directions for future research.
FROM PROGRAM PARTICIPANT TO AGING ADVOCATE: THEORIZING OLDER ADULTS' ROLES IN AGE-FRIENDLY COMMUNITY INITIATIVES
Authors: Greenfield Emily , Reyes Laurent 
Published: November 2019

Abstract
Major professional organizations in health and aging have identified older adults’ involvement as a defining feature of aging-friendly community initiatives (AFCIs), yet there is very little research on this aspect of the initiatives. Our study utilizes five waves of data from in-depth interviews with leaders of nine AFCIs across northern New Jersey. The study was conducted as part of a multi-year, community-partnered project on the development of these philanthropically supported initiatives. Multi-phase coding yielded four types of roles for older adults: (a) program participants, (b) informants and consultants, (c) volunteers assisting with programs, events, and administrative tasks, and (d) aging-friendly champions and advocates. Across role types, AFCI leaders reflected on the challenges of engaging particular subgroups of older adults, as well as how ambivalent age identities impeded involvement. We discuss implications for advancing research and evaluation on community-level interventions that seek to simultaneously serve and empower people as they age.
PROMOTING AGING IN PLACE VIA RESEARCH, POLICY, AND PRACTICE IN AGE-FRIENDLY COMMUNITIES
Authors: Black Kathy 
Published: November 2019

Abstract
The majority of Americans overwhelmingly prefer to age in place and in the communities in which they reside. Age-friendly communities support aging in place by focusing attention on features both inside and outside of the home. The global age-friendly community model provides a framework that requires assessing community-based older adults’ needs and preferences about, and developing subsequent action towards, features of the social, service and built environment including housing and transportation which are considered essential to aging successfully at home. This presentation discusses the intersect between research, policy and practice in an age-friendly community which utilized micro-level findings from older adults (n = 1, 172) to enact macro-level collaborations across local and statewide government and professional groups to facilitate aging in place across the domains of housing and transportation.
BACK TO BASICS: HOPELESSNESS AS THE MEDIATING FACTOR FOR COMPLETED SUICIDE AMONG OLDER ADULTS
Authors: Hernandez Silvia C , Overholser James C , Lavacot James , Philips Kristie L , Stockmeier Craig A 
Published: November 2019

Abstract
Individuals 65 years and older are at high risk for completing suicide. Though risk factors have been established in the literature, the dominant atheoretical approach has left the field at an impasse. The present study aimed to integrate core risk factors of hopelessness, depression, physical illness, and social isolation by proposing a biopsychosocial framework of older adult suicide. A psychological autopsy was used to compare individuals 65 years and older who died either by suicide (n = 32) or natural causes (n = 45). Structural equation modeling results suggested that hopelessness was the only factor directly associated with suicide (B = .01, β = 0.84, SE = 13.31, p ≤ .001), fully mediating the relationships between suicide and social isolation, negative attitudes about physical health, and depression. The proposed model adequately fit the data, explaining 71% of the variance in cause of death. Advanced age (75+ years) moderately increased social isolation, which weakly increased hopelessness, contributing to suicide in a smaller magnitude than expected. Though individuals in the advanced age group had a wider range of physical illnesses, this did not increase risk. Rather, negative perceptions of health increased risk for all individuals 65 years and older via depression and hopelessness, irrespective of the presence of impairing physical illness. Findings support the claim that hopelessness plays a pivotal role in the progression from suicidal ideation to completion among older adults. Directly targeting hopelessness could help prevent at-risk older adults from acting on their thoughts of suicide.
BODY TYPES AND ASSOCIATION WITH DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS AMONG OLDER ADULTS: FINDINGS FROM NHANES 2013-2016
Authors: Chukwurah Queendaleen C , Bazzano Lydia 
Published: November 2019

Abstract
Older Americans are increasingly affected by overweight and obesity now as compared to previous decades. We examine the prevalence rates and association of Depressive Symptoms (DS) across body types created using the National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute recommended body mass index /waist circumference (WC) anthropometric cut off values among older Americans. 3,132 participants, 50 years and older from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2013-2016 was used for this analysis. Six body types were created using the anthropometric cut off values- normal weight with normal WC, overweight with normal WC, obese with normal WC, normal weight with high WC, overweight with high WC, and obese with high WC. The PHQ-9 score was used to create DS categories (1-4, 5-9, 10-14, 15-19, ≥20). The relationship of body types to DS categories was assessed using weighted multinomial logistic regression. The mean (SD) sample age was 63.4 (9.2). Approximately 12.9% of participants had a PHQ-9 score of at least 10. After adjusting for age, gender, race/ethnicity and poverty-income ratio, overweight with high WC (OR 7.61, 95% CI 2.37-24.48) had high odds of moderately severe DS. Obese with high WC had high odds of mild DS (OR 1.76, 95% CI 1.22-2.52), moderate DS (OR 2.14, 95% CI 1.09-4.20) and moderately severe DS (OR 5.59, 95% CI 2.75-11.39) compared to normal weight with normal WC. We demonstrate an association of body types with DS in an aging American population and these findings would not be identified if anthropometric measures were examined separately.
ASSOCIATION OF WELL-BEING WITH ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, AND FUNCTIONAL IMPAIRMENT FOLLOWING REHABILITATION SERVICES
Authors: Simning Adam , Seplaki Christopher L 
Published: November 2019

Abstract
Millions of older adults receive rehabilitation services yearly that aim to restore, sustain, or limit decline in functioning. Older adults who receive rehabilitation comprise a vulnerable population that is unfortunately at elevated risk for anxiety, depression, and functional impairment. We hypothesize that lower levels of wellbeing prior to rehabilitation services are associated with a greater risk of having clinically significant anxiety or depressive symptoms, or worsening impairments in self-care or household activities, following rehabilitation. This study uses data from 2015 and 2016 waves of the National Health and Aging Trends Study, and includes 853 participants with information on rehabilitation services, wellbeing, anxiety and depression, and functional impairment, as well as demographic characteristics, socioeconomic status, and health variables. In a series of multivariable logistic analyses with wellbeing serving as our primary independent variable, older adults in the lowest quartile of wellbeing (compared to those in the highest quartile of wellbeing) had greater odds for having anxiety symptoms (OR=3.04; 95% CI: 1.24-7.46), depressive symptoms (OR=6.54; 95% CI: 2.80-15.25), and worsening impairment in self-care (OR=2.15; 95% CI: 1.09-4.23), but not in household activities (OR=1.49; 95% CI: 0.67-3.32). This study’s findings suggest that older adults with low levels of wellbeing at baseline may be more susceptible for having mental illness and functional impairment at follow-up. Conversely, the findings suggest that perhaps those with high levels of wellbeing may be able to experience significant health events with fewer residual consequences. The mechanism by which wellbeing may affect these outcomes is unclear and warrants further investigation.
A TALE OF TWO CASE STUDIES: ACCELERATED RESOLUTION THERAPY FOR COMPLICATED GRIEF IN OLDER ADULTS
Authors: Buck Harleah G , Hernandez Diego F , Mason Tina , Tofthagen Cindy , Kip Kevin E 
Published: November 2019

Abstract
Complicated grief (CG) is characterized by lengthy, intense, and functionally impairing grief which disproportionately affects older adults. Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is a brief, protocol driven, exposure/imagery rescripting therapy which uses lateral left-right eye movements. ART, unlike traditional psychotherapy, directs the person to perform two tasks simultaneously (e.g. re-experiencing the grief experience and performing eye movements), taxing limited working memory capacity. Importantly, this may force memory traces representing events, emotions, and sensations to compete for permanence, as well as reduce the vividness and emotional intensity of the original grief. Two CG case studies are presented (expected; unexpected death) with their response to ART. Stake’s instrumental case study methodology was used to identify and study cases which reflect a range of CG. Additionally, CG was measured by the Inventory of Complicated Grief (ICF). ICF’s range is 0-76 with scores &gt; 24 indicating CG. Case 1 was a spousal caregiver with a single, expected death where helplessness, guilt, shame, and a life alone had resulted in CG (baseline ICF 33). Her ICF at 8 weeks post-ART was 10. Case 2 was an adult child caregiver with multiple (parent, sibling), unexpected deaths in quick succession where loss, guilt, anger, and helplessness had resulted in CG (baseline ICF 25). Her ICF at 8 weeks post-ART was 9. Both participants were able to process the distressing sensations that emerged during the imaginal exposure component facilitated with the use of eye movements. This suggests that ART may be a powerful new mind-body treatment for CG.
SOCIAL ISOLATION AND MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES AMONG HIGH-NEEDS VETERANS
Authors: Dang Stuti , Muralidhar Kiranmayee , Wang Kaicheng , Ruiz Diana , Gomez-Orozco Carlos , Valencia Willy Marcos 
Published: November 2019

Abstract
Using predictive analytic modeling, the Veterans Affairs has identified vulnerable Veterans, labeled as High Need High Risk (HNHR), as those who need greater services and support. To better understand their need gaps, we assessed function, mobility, mood, and caregiver status using a mailed needs assessment questionnaire to 1112 HNHR Veterans. Among the 341(30.7%) respondents, they were primarily 274(80.4%) Non-Hispanics; 210(61.6%) Whites, and 119(34.9%) Black or African Americans; average age was 69.5±9.6 years old; 310(90.4%) had ≥high school education. The average Barthel ADL score was 81.5±22.8 and average Lawton IADL score was 5.8±2.2. Walking or balance issues were present among 260(75.8%), 227(66.2%) said they use an assistive device, and 167(48.7%) had suffered ≥1 fall, 43(12.5%). Regarding depression, 117(34.3%) screened positive (PHQ2 score≥3). These were significantly younger (66.7±9.1) than those who did not (70.8±9.3, p≤0.01). They were also significantly lower functioning (5.37±2.1 vs.6.38±2 Lawton IADL score, p≤0.01), more dependent (77.8±23.1 vs 86±19.2 Barthel ADL score, p≤0.01). We also observed significant differences in their telephone contact with family (never to once/week) [35(29.9%) vs. 27(13.4%), (p≤0.01)]; in meeting with friends or relatives ≥3times a week [12(10.3%) vs. 69(34.3%), (p≤0.01)]; and in likelihood of attending meetings with clubs or other organizations [94(80.3%) vs. 138(68.7%), p=0.040]. Detecting depression is a priority among HNHR Veterans. There is an urgent need to devise viable strategies to offer interventions that incorporate mental health needs and reduce social isolation, potentially addressing mobility, function, and transportation.
TEACHING ABOUT GERONTOLOGY AND AGING THROUGH INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATION AND COLLABORATION
Authors: Jurkowski Elaine T , Heitkamp Ruth , Kelly Cherie , Smaga Sharon 
Published: November 2019

Abstract
Repeatedly as multidisciplinary professionals we are concerned about the individual patient we serve. Inter-professional collaboration across disciplines such as primary care medical practice, physician assistants, social workers and psychologists does not occur naturally, since educational programs are often taught independently of each other, but these disciplines are required to work collaboratively with each other. The objective was to promote communication across disciplines (Medicine, Social Work, Physician Assistant and Psychology) and help each discipline understand the roles played in promoting mental health and general health for older adults. An educational seminar was conducted using cases and guide questions focused on identifying strategies for care. The teams consisted of Medical Residents, a Social Work student, a Psychology student and a Physician Assistant student. A series of guide questions were provided, and teams were asked to discuss and identify a care plan. Debriefing followed to discuss the outcomes across all teams. Pre-post test results examined variables related to interdisciplinary collaboration. Findings suggest professionals were surprised at what they learned from the other disciplines they were collaborating with. They also learned about community based resources available as well as strategies to promote health outcomes. All participants felt that the opportunity to collaborate outside of their disciplines would strengthen their impact when working with older adults and their families. In conclusion, a problem based learning approach coupled with the opportunity to collaborate with other disciplines through (IPE) is a venue to improve overall collaboration across professionals and ultimately improve mental health outcomes of consumers.